Wikimedia head resigns after leak exposed search engine plans | The Verge
February 26, 2016 February 25, 2016 (Asa Mathat / Recode) Wikimedia tried to justify the documents in a blog post The documents appeared to show that Wikimedia sought $250,000 to develop "the Knowledge Engine," a project it said would result in "the internet's first transparent search engine," that was "completely free of commercial interest." News of the secret project rankled with many of Wikipedia's contributors, who would normally be consulted before the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation embarked on something so big, but the nonprofit group denied that it ever intended to make a search engine. "We're not building a global crawler search engine," Tretikov and vice president of product Wes Morgan wrote in a blog post , apparently counter to the documents widely seen. "We're not building another, separate Wikimedia project. We're committed to our mission of helping the world access and interact with free knowledge." Community members reacted skeptically to the post,Read full article from Wikimedia head resigns after leak exposed search engine plans | The Verge
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