Half-baked ideas

Half-baked ideas! This is mostly a list of possible essays.

• Wikimedia as a manipulation machine
  • Manipulating reality through what information its projects present
  • Manipulating people to donate through advertising campaigns
  • Manipulating user behavior through experiments
• Google Knol's failure and the future of Google's data presentation schemes (keep visitors on google.com)
• Changing to the Wikipedia Foundation
  • With a focus on a Wikipedia Dictionary and Wikipedia Media Repository
  • Disband other projects
    • Contrast with the recent addition of projects such as Wikidata and Wikivoyage
• The Wikimedia Foundation's relationship with Google becoming more akin to Mozilla's
• The Wikimedia Foundation's relationship with Google generally (millions of dollars, Wikidata support, etc.)
• Difficulties with editorial judgment (esp. as it relates to controversial content)
• Complete absence of Global South projects from the Wikimedia Foundation's work
• Global South projects are part of a cycle: the projects don't gain prominence or importance because of a lack of resources, but resources are not allocated due to a lack of prominence or importance