The Secret Search Engine Tearing Wikipedia Apart

You may have heard news that the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that finances and founded Wikipedia, is interested in creating a search engine that appears squarely aimed at competing with Google. What you may not have heard is that this nascent project is tearing the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia community apart. The secrecy surrounding Wikimedia’s search engine seems to go against the organization’s ethos of radical transparency.
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