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Wikipedia is special in that 1) it's very cacheable so the infrastructure costs are low and 2) it's not too expensive in terms of development since I assume people don't expect many features.


It also has a better charity story, because "summarizing the knowledge of mankind" seems a tag more lofty than a social network.

(Even if that's not the case...)




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