On 27 June 2012 05:15, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> 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