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At Mark: More accurate, they are the only humans that could
*deliberately*"screw up" Wikipedia. The project's own community, a
body that arguably
cares more for the success of the encyclopedia than any other, could very
well rip it apart from the inside.

Projects can be destroyed accidentally too.

*Anthony*

user:AGK
en.wikipedia.org

2008/8/15 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>

>
> > 2008/8/14 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
> >
> >> David, is Wikipedia going to be "commercialized"?
> >
> > on 8/14/08 7:32 AM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Personally? I doubt it. Although it could legally run ads I think, I
> > suspect it would be disastrous in terms of lots of the volunteers
> > getting up and leaving.
> >
> >
> Jimmy Wales was quoted recently as saying: "Given enough time, humans will
> screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far
> it's not too bad."
>
> The only "humans" that could truly "screw up", ruin, better still, destroy
> Wikipedia are those who would, through advertising or other
> commercialization, exploit it for their own financial gain.
>
> Source:
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=254
> 7-1_3-0-20<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
>
> Marc Riddell
>
>
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