Wikipedia:Wikipedia will exist in the far future

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Consider the following:

• Wikipedia is one of the world's top websites, with global appeal, and widely recognized as a crowning achievement of humanity.^{[citation needed]}
• The Wikimedia Foundation has a considerable financial endowment, earmarked for sustaining the site.
• Wikipedia has a large and technically capable audience with immense goodwill towards the project.
• The content of Wikipedia is not that big by modern data management standards.

One may combine these statements to extrapolate that Wikipedia will still exist in the far future, or at least for as long as technological human civilization lasts.

This essay explores some of the consequences of Wikipedia still existing in the year 3000, in the year 30,000, or even beyond.