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Just when you think Wikipedia might have cleaned up its act, they confirm their essentially agenda-driven, truth-challenged agenda. Look at the former entry on "blood libel" via the WayBack Machine link posted above -- then go check out Wikipedia's current entry. These people are absolutely shameless.

The Wikimedia Foundation today announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain high quality print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. The development of the underlying open source software is supported by the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org) and the Commonwealth of Learning (www.col.org), and led by PediaPress.com, a start-up company based in Germany.

March 2010 -- Although Jimmy Wales, the public figurehead of Wikipedia, tries to give the world the impression that his website is an independent entity, the reality is that the Wikimedia Foundation, of which Wikipedia is a project, is directly dependent upon support from super-wealthy benefactors with connections to the pharmaceutical investment business. One of the most notable of the Wikimedia Foundation’s supporters is the so-called “Open Society Institute”, founded by the chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, George Soros. Links between George Soros, the Wikimedia Foundation and the drug industry George Soros is a Hungarian-born currency speculator and multi-billion...

Found this article on the NY Slimes: Speed bumps on the Wikipedia highway This is an article all about Jimmy Wales, it seems. The following paragraph is clearly about the guy. And of course, buried in the article you can see this: Despite some of the attacks on Wales, he is still largely a hero within the Wikipedia community – walking through the annual conventions with assistants in tow, greeting the most enthusiastic Wikipedia contributors from across the globe, receiving invitations to the World Economic Forum in Davos, attending George Soros' birthday party.

Is Wikipedia/Wikimedia foundation funded by special interest groups? A list are major donors to Wikipedia below Financial Reports Wikimedia Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Press release) Omidyar Network Stanton Foundation (Press release) Arcadia Richard Lounsbery Foundation Open Society Institute (George Soros founder)