[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Brion Vibber]

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Brian wrote:
| Instead of being such a great search engine, Wikipedia's search engine is
| essentially a hobby project that is worked on by 1-2 people.

That's how everything here starts, Brian.

Do we give up and abandon it to a secretive, proprietary company which
will never release their technology to the open world, or do we keep the
opportunity to let interested parties develop something great in the open?

Since this is Wikimedia, the answer is obvious: open and able to be
improved is better than closed and beholden.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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