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Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by jaredklewis on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:56AM (#21700181)
I think the word asset is being used in a particular sense here. Page views are not liquid or transferable.
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Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by lwf on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @02:05AM (#21700206)
Technically, they could sell the domain & the new owner could maintain the site as-is, but I really don't think that'd happen.

The WMF is mission-driven. A large swath of their funds are spent as grants to other organisations, and they could par that back without affecting their ability to operate.

[disc: Wikipedian since 2004, many friends who are WMF employees]

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Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by zentiggr on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:51AM (#21703852)
> they could par that back without affecting their ability to operate

Sure, but can they? Seems like an ever expanding cash sink, according to those financials...

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Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by emerongi on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @02:16AM (#21700249)
Page views are most definitely transferable. Why do you think Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1B?

I guess more concretely, the wikipedia.org domain is a very valuable asset.

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