Wikimedia: Difference between revisions

Supporters of the Wikimedia foundation claim that most longstanding participants in the [[Wikipedia]] project have greeted the formation of the nonprofit with great enthusiasm.  Plans are in the work to set up nonprofit organizations in European countries to complement a global foundation.  Wales has given all rights and ownership in the Wikipedia name(s) to these foundations.

Supporters also can point to the fact that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia] has grown to over 1.5 million articles, with editions in over 100 languages, and thus is probably the largest and best known [[Wiki]] community.  They also might claim that this success would not have been possible without the current leadership or organizational structure, or the policy of "neutral point of view".  They generally believe that widespread mainstream acceptance of the project would not have been possible had content been allowed to be more polemical, and less built on consensus.