[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

[Keegan Peterzell]

The foundation of the IB suit seems to be that they feel without their
present community, they cannot sustain their content and product.  They
feel that their website is being stolen, and stolen by a conspiracy with
the WMF involved.  This is a valid assumption, but it is *just an
assumption.  *I do not expect IB to understand what they purchased when
they bought the wiki, because it didn't need explaining at the time.  The
IB WikiTravel site remains a wiki.  It is free to edit, it is free to
maintain, and free to build.

Not every wiki is capable of a perfect storm to build a huge and successful
wiki, but any wiki is capable of a small, modest and functioning community
to drive it.  Most important is that the popularity of a wiki shouldn't
trump its content.  The atmosphere is what keeps people on any website, and
the situation on WikiTravel has been, and will be, up to IB's choice of
staffing the site to help the community, and its software development.  Not
unlike the principles behind the Wikimedia Foundation.  If IB can make the
place a nice wiki post-fork, they can build a new community.  It's a
website, there's nothing out of the realm of possibility.

The fact that they do not see this is evident, though.  It's about the
money in the here and the now.

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~Keegan

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