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A new post on Wikimedia describes a vague proposal from Google “to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects.” The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation includes Wikpedia, Wikinews and the Wiktionary. A possible tie-in with eternal beta Google News? Google Answers? Something completely new?
This raises all sorts of questions about the value created by a community and its commercial exploitation. I don’t see how the board of Wikimedia can conduct these discussions privately, frankly, without an extended period of discussion with their many contributors before concluding any deal with a commercial entity.]]>