What happens when the sum of all human knowledge is freely available in the world?

Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) has been asking the question "What is the impact of grants?" for a long time. There have been a number of efforts to answer this question, focused primarily on short-term outputs. But these efforts miss the longer-term outcomes, the ripple effects of grantee work that are hard (and sometimes impossible) to measure in the short grant life-cycle. Calibrate Research Group's unique approach to outcome harvesting has helped the foundation capture the long-term impact of the world's greatest collective experience.

Check out the report here.