Wikipedia to go offline
p2pnet news | P2P:- The Wikipedia, probably the Net’s most famous online information resource, has plans to go offline.
This comes in a CNET News follow-up to stories centering on the very public bust-up between Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales and his erstwhile girl-friend, Rachel Marsden; and, claims by former Wikipedia employee Danny Wool that Wales had been abusing his expense account
Sue Gardner, ex-head of CBC.ca who’s now executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, “came to the defense of Wales in interviews Thursday,” says the story.
“She said that recent allegations against Wales that he misused foundation funds were started by a ‘disgruntled former employee’ who’s spread unsubstantiated rumors on his blog.
“I find it distressing,” the story has her saying.
“(Wales) has done nothing but be modest, frugal, and do what’s best for the organization.”
Then, at the end of the post, “Gardner said she is trying to expand the influence of Wikimedia and Wikipedia,” says CNET News, adding”
“One of her big goals for the foundation is to help bring Wikipedia to a much wider audience. The nonprofit wants to develop Wikipedia books, videos, and USB sticks, for people who have a computer but are without the Internet.
“We want to disseminate Wikipedia to people off the Internet,” she said.
Stay tuned.
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Also See:
CNET News – Wikimedia executive comes to Wales defense, March 6, 2008
Rachel Marsden – Rachel Marsden sells Jimbo Wales’ dirty linen, March 3, 2008
Danny Wool – Money for nothing, chicks for free?, March 1, 2008
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March 8th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Wikipedia off line? that would be a huge mistake, people are going to shoot themselves. It took years to make it finally be a viabloe source and now, gosh i hope somone in the company leaks the DB back up….
March 8th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
@Jacob
I think you need to read the article one more time. By “offline” they mean they are making wikipedia books, videos, and other non-internet resources. It is NOT saying that the website will be taken down.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I think the title of this article is somewhat misleading, I also thought that Wikipedia was shutting down at first.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Jon is just being deliberately shocking to get readers. If he’d said “Wikipedia is going portable” it wouldn’t have got so many hits… By the way, this is not the first project to make wikipedia available, in a limited way, without Internet access.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Yeah, I was confused as well. Misleading! Misleading!
March 9th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Hi all:
^^ Apologies: I can only get so many characters into a given headline and “Wikipedia to be disseminated offline” looked somewhat long.
Cheers!
March 10th, 2008 at 10:04 am
If only that horrible place *would* go offline. It’s nothing but a vat of ego, nonsense, and misinformation–and all under the guise of democratic scholarship.