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[Marc Riddell]

> 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.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=254
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Marc Riddell