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I understand what you mean. I also understand that we're reasoning in the abstract here but I don't think it's fair to apply traditional economic theory to a social mission (accessible information?) and I'm not convinced that failure here is a favorable outcome for it.

You are right, though, that I might be overestimating the cost of coordination post-dissolution. It's interesting to think about how that might be done effectively.




I've seen that kind of diaspora before in internet forums and ran some for awhile based on that principle.

It does work more or less in that case. I'm not 1000% sure it'll work with Wikipedia but in the case I was personally involved in it did.




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