RE: Hive Can Make Wikipedia Worthless
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Someone tried making a blockchain equivalent of Wikipedia years ago. It didnt catch on. Its too robust of a system that requires thousands of editors willing to donate time. You would need the whole of Hive community focusing on it and it would be a mess.
And its work, its not just blogging.
Wikipedia does an extremely good job, I see no reason why anyone would want to compete with them.
Wikipedia is free and openly available.
You could also never have an unbiased coverage of facts and events. In that way it would be completely same to current wikipedia.
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I wonder if Hive can be used simply as a backup of Wikipedia. Any edit there gets mirrored on Hive. If anything ever happens to Wikipedia, all the knowledge can continue to live on the blockchain.
That is a whole other deal, id say it probably could. You would still need a way to filter it all and update as all entries on Wikipedia are subject to change.
And what happens if they cannot support their costs? When it is centralized, someone is having to fork over the server costs. Who is paying that? If they fail to be able to maintain it, what do they do? Most likely sell.
What does the new owner do? Will that be free?
We know in Web 2.0 there is nothing ultimately free.
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Theyve had successful donation campaigns so far. Until they fail to cover costs its pointless to assume they cant. Considering wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and a significant cultural phenomenon id say likelihood of that happening is close to 0.
Wikipedia will shut down only when people decide there is no more need for wikipedia and that there are more efficient ways of spreading public knowledge.
Sure there is. For the reader Wikipedia is completely free.