Wikipedia For Sale?

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By Agent ⋅ March 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

All the current Valleywag trash talk about Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales, 41, who dumped his girlfriend with an announcement on the encyclopaedia’s website (girlfriend then sells Wales’ laundry on E-Bay… how very Web 2.0) misses the more important point.

There is serious talk in certain quarters concerning the possible private sale of Wikipedia. Impossible? With a sale price rumoured to be well into the billions, few things are truly impossible.

Private equity firm Elevation Partners would be my best bet as the people who could make it happen.

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