* Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> [Fri, 15 May 2009 
13:55:22 -0400]:
> Wikimedia is nowhere *close* to the largest MySQL user.  It's a
> mid-sized MySQL user at most.  It's one of the largest *websites*
> using MySQL, but there are data warehouses and whatnot that have
> vastly larger databases, and definitely more valuable ones.  Besides,
> we don't pay them any money, unlike some of their enterprise users.
>
What can be more valuable than a general knowledge? Some lists of
personal info or another statistical data, which will become outdated
pretty soon?
Only a non-completely free databases of scientific works and 
publications
such as ArtStor are coming to my mind as being really comparable to
what wikipedia offers..
Dmitriy

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