On 27 June 2012 05:15, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps so. :)) (But clearly, so have you.)
The difference being that I've been following Wikipedia criticism for much longer to the point where I can just view it as a rather repetitive soap opera. > I was actually thinking of the board, or just Jimbo himself, rather than > any wider group of luminaries (or actual Wikipedia editors). If Google > wanted something, I am sure they would speak in person to the people they > have had personal contact with. The problem with your theory is that firstly it assumes a level of control that those people don't have and secondly that you are forgetting that Google is a PLC. > So, seen from one perspective, all the value that volunteers had created in > the English Wikipedia over a decade was leveraged to support one view on > copyrights, which happened to coincide with Google's business interests. > And Google happened to donate half a million to Wikipedia just around that > time. That would be the conspiracy theorist perspective yes. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
