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Anyone know why this is an independent project instead of being part the Wikimedia foundation?
by resist_futility 9y ago
Anyone know why this is an independent project instead of being part the Wikimedia foundation?
- rand005 9y ago> Wales, who sits on the board of Guardian Media Group, the Guardian’s parent company, founded Wikipedia with Larry Sanger in 2001, before donating the entire project to a non-profit organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation, that he set up in 2003. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/25/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-to-fight-fake-news-with-new-wikitribune-site https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/25/wikipedia...
- abdias 9y agoYes, YOU, and me. We can all do our own research to discern what is fake or not.