What is a possible business model for Wikipedia? Assume that they have a team of superstar engineers who can build any iterative feature immediately. So given development is not a blocker, how can they make money instead of relying on donations?

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Well.. Encyclopedias weren't free. 

There is a cost associated in running a website with heavy read and non-trivial write load. Server bill needs to be paid somehow. I understand donations have been working very well for Wikipedia: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/

They shouldn't make money.
Should be a public good.

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This is interesting. Tokengating/Paywalling content. 
Didn't work for Quora as effectively though. I understand the format is very different.

Information is paid per paragraph or per sentence or per alphabet or per word. The more you pay the more information will be unlocled.

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"enterprise knowledge bases" is a very crowded field tbh. And the delta there usually comes from integrations (Atlassian family) rather than knowledge base itself. 

Definitely like the curated content approach. What if it is parsed from the existing content rather than generated entirely and..

Generate and maintain enterprise knowledge bases using their infrastructure. Up charge for AI generated and curated content that is trained off their LLM but also provably encrypted so as to protect consent IP

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Given how lasting the brand has become, if they sell small batch merch it would do pretty well actually

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This is very interesting.
- Deposit collateral while submitting an edit or post.
- Each submission will result in a challenge period where community can vote (or maybe even bots can reconcile the submission with models such gpt-3)
- if it violates some misinformation threshold, deposit gets slashed.

Recurring fees to publish, surface, and preserve misinformation. Lie to me, but pay a premium first.

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Won't that increase the alignment mismatch between factual and preferential data for companies? One with deepest pockets get to define the narrative.

Doing crowdsourced paid research by wiki editors for companies maybe?

What’s wrong with non-profit funded by donation? Why do they need a revenue model?

It’s supported by a nonprofit foundation whose purpose is making knowledge free to access and use.

It’s not a business, it’s philanthropy.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/

History is written by those in control. 

Adding a price to preserving history risks removing all social pressures to get it right. Donations cover costs while preserving the culture.

Permissioned nft marketplace of dated pages? Trading fees on the platform from it while maintaining the up to date wiki? Just a thought off the top of my head. Wen wiki NFTs?