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Comments on Wikipedia Continuity
I have downloaded the non-wiki version of 1-Click, and to be honest, it seems harmless enough. There seem to be no real ads attached anywhere, and it even seems quite useful. I hope the Wiki version will be nice. However, I am very concerned with the fact that Answers.com is seemingly hijacking the work of Wikipedian editors. Of course, they've been doing so for quite a while, and the license of Wikipedia allows this, so this in itself is not a problem. But if everybody is free to use our content (which I support wholeheartedly), we desperately need to give Wikipedia a continuing added value.

Already the prominence of Wikipedia is declining. No doubtThe risk is taht we might become the database for other sites using our

this arrangement will push Wikipedia in the defensive as to our own conten

But we should realise that, in the long run, Wikipedia will have to compete with Answers.com.

But it does mean that Wikipedia will have to fight hard to

enlisting the help of Wikipedia as a promotion for their version of Wikipedia.

The very existence of Wikipedia is, and probably increasingly, under severe strain.

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The Minister of War Peace 17:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

The Minister of War Peace 08:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

The Minister of War 08:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)