In a message dated 5/22/2011 9:31:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net writes:
Legally, Wikipedia is private property belonging to a
nonprofit
corporation. If the United States government, or some other government,
owned it and regulated it in such a way as to guarantee public access it
would be a public website.
My point Fred, is there is no such animal. So calling something a "private
website" is redundant, since all websites are private, there are no public
websites. Certainly there are websites owned by governments, but they are
not public in the sense above that there is guaranteed access to *modify*
their contents.