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.
Googlopedia on Wheels, here we come...
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