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@downey Exactly. I'm aware that Wikipedia has more funding that they require.
Perhaps surprisingly, crowd-sourcing all the knowledge of humanity, in dozens of different languages and making it freely available worldwide...all for a tiny fraction of the resources allocated to relatively simpler platforms for microblogging (*) and instant messaging (**).
(*) Twitter sold for $44B
(**) WhatsApp sold for $19B in 2014
Before someone corrects me, I should point out that the valuation of Twitter and WhatsApp isn't strictly correlated to their operating costs or their complexity.
Everyone here knows that a platform equivalent to Twitter could be redesigned by a small group of opensource contributors and operated by a handful of volunteer sysadmins 
The market value of Twitter and WhatsApp comes from their established user bases, and from the expectation that those users will somehow remain loyal when aggressively monetized...
Well, good luck! 
