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Wikimedia Proposes Advertising [Updated]
user9918277462 writes "The Board of the Wikimedia Foundation has announced a new partnership with the Answers Corporation, which provides the content for Google Definitions links. There is also a lengthy discussion, wiki-style for those who wish to participate." Update 10/25 18:42 by SM: An announcement has been posted on Wikipedia to help clarify the original submission (which thankfully was patently false and has since been cleaned up a bit, our apologies to Wikimedia). Answers.com will be creating their own co-branded version which will show ads and no ads will be shown on wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia, it is a set of webpages maintained by far right and left wing drips. My hometown is Flint, Michigan. Michael Moore is NOT from Flint Michigan, but try to change it. His undereducated and underworked fanbois ensure that misinformation is the order of the day. Pick any issue that can have a political bias and some moron of a republican, or lemming of a democrat ensures that the truth is secondmost to their political point. It only has value for specific data (dates, times, etc), and when it is compared to real databases of factual data it shows up horribly by comparison. Let them add ads, then the Wintendo generation will be even less capable.