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Title	Community-run sites idealistic, maybe not ideal
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 01/24/2007
Summary	The debate surrounding the revelation that Microsoft offered to pay a developer to make changes to Wikipedia pages points to problems that can arise when a major Web site is managed by a community of people. continue

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