In a financial crunch, they would not sell the organization, but the assets to pay debt?
Wouldn’t that be legal?
Wouldn’t that be legal?
The WMF is mission-driven. A large swath of their funds are spent as grants to other organisations, and they could par that back without affecting their ability to operate.
[disc: Wikipedian since 2004, many friends who are WMF employees]
Sure, but can they? Seems like an ever expanding cash sink, according to those financials...
I guess more concretely, the wikipedia.org domain is a very valuable asset.
To clarify, Wikipedia comprises not just the stuff which is free of copyright, but primarily the userbase, community, support staff, management structures, and (configured) servers it's hosted on. There's plenty to sell there.
Everything else is easily copied or duplicated, and indeed had been. The only thing you can't copy is the domain name. That's the thing that's worth millions of visitors.