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In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with …
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Hey @everton137 @wikipedia @wikimediafoundation @wikimediaitalia,
Yes, that's right, in the early days of Wikipedia there were various ideas about how Wikipedia could be made sustainable. One of them was to place advertisements. Not to make a fortune, but to be able to finance the project in the long term. After the Spanish community vehemently opposed this, the Wikipedia founders quickly rejected this approach. You can read more about this in this interview: https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-spanish-fork/

The Spanish Fork: Wikipedia's ad-fuelled mutiny

In 2002 the whole team working on the Spanish Wikpedia jumped ship to set up their own collaborative encyclopaedia, Enciclopedia Libre. Wired.co.uk examines how this "Spanish fork" came to happen and its impact on Wikipedia as a whole
Nathaniel Tkacz (WIRED)
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