From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Alphax
(Wikipedia email)
Sent: Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:23
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Ads on Wikipedia?
Peter Mackay wrote:
<snip>
Getting back to the original point, charging
Google enough
to keep WP
running isn't going to do much beyond
providing an incentive for
Google to put up their own online encyclopaedia. I would
imagine that
if they were pressed, Google could get the
MediaWiki software and
Wikipedia content loaded and tested in a matter of days, if
not hours,
and alter their search results to give their
"Googlopedia" a higher
precedence than Wikipedia. We don't have any sort of "big
stick" to
threaten Google with.
Actually, we do. We withold editors. What will they do when
they are vandalised? They won't have WP's 650+ admins (and
2000+ others) to help deal with it.
Why not? You think Google would have problems attracting editors?
Peter