Wikipedia's Goal • 1 Billion Monthly Visitors by 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia and nearly a dozen other wiki-based projects, announced its five-year strategic plan today. The plan is the product of a …

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia's Goal: 1 Billion Monthly Visitors by 2015[/b]
Hard OCP
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced its five year goal for Wikipedia and it's a biggie. The target goal for 2015 is 1 billion monthly visitors. The present level of activity is in the 400 million range, so Wikipedia has quite the road to hoe to ...



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From the article: http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/02/27/wik...sitors_by_2015/

Golly, I guess there's no economy of scale at all then.

In fact, the reverse. The more people use WP, the more it costs per page-view! Don't ask why-- the details are vewy, vewy technical.

As more people visit a site, the site owner needs a faster and bigger server to handle the accesses. The more accesses they serve, the more money it costs for them to maintain the system?

Of course Sue and the rest are more concerned in maintaining their pockets, so nobody ever knows how much goes into server maintenance and upgrade.

Perfect, for Wikipedia.

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Says He Who Walks Between The Roes, Makes the Scare Crows, And Wishes Things Under the Cornfield.

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Wants 1 Billion Monthly Visitors by 2015[/b]
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The Wikimedia Foundation, parent company of Wikipedia, announced its five-year strategic plan. It's Wikimedia's first time laying out a roadmap of sorts, and this one represents the collaborative efforts of more than a thousand participants. ...



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia targets 1bn monthly visitors by 2015[/b]
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By Editorial Wikipedia, in conjunction with the Wikimedia Foundation, is aiming to reach 1bn unique monthly visitors by 2015. The announcement comes as Wikipedia lays out its five-year plan, which also details targets to increase articles to 50m and ...

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