Unlike the parent post, I don't think that Wikipedia will end soon. However, Wikipedia has definitely handicapped itself for the sake of submitting to the the l

Unlike the parent post, I don't think that Wikipedia will end soon. However, Wikipedia has definitely handicapped itself for the sake of submitting to the the law in the last couple of years. Specifically, this has been the case with the formerly fair use illustrations which are now shrunk to a tiny size. This makes Wikipedia a far less useful encyclopaedia for topics like the history of art. Not only did they edit out the images, but they also made the previous versions unreachable in the edit history, which contrasts with the transparency that used to distinguish the project before. I mean, don't get me wrong, I understand the legal need for this change and I still love and support Wikipedia, but it would be naïve to take its current status for granted and assume that the foundation can just move to another country (where?) or that cloning would be easy when the edit history can be retroactively erased.