Britannica Takes Over the Wikimedia Foundation

An anonymous reader writes "The Encyclopaedia Britannica has initiated a "semi-hostile" takeover of Wikipedia. Wikipedia administrators, members of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees, Arbitration Committee members and several other cabalists will receive free access. However, their adminship powers will be stripped permanently."

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April Fools Day or My Birthday?

[RobotRunAmok]

Britannica taking over Wiki? Too bad it's only a fantasy. Short of Britannica putting its content on the Web free, this would be the next best thing.

OT: Firefox

[m50d]

Did anyone else have firefox crash trying to first post in this story? 3 times in a row I loaded it and clicked reply only to have FF disappear and the quality feedback agent come up.

(Typing this in Opera, which seems to be fine)

Re:Booriing

[TrappedByMyself]

I think the real April Fool's joke is getting people who aren't amused by the jokes to keep coming back to the site and post comments about them.

It's like going to the same store 3 dozen times in one day, buying the same shirt each time, and telling the cashier each time how much you really hate that shirt.