Wikipédia, le projet d’encyclopédie gratuite, écrite coopérativement et dont le contenu est réutilisable selon les conditions de la Licence de documentation libre GNU, serait en phase de recherche d’un partenaire stratégique nommé Google.

Voici le communiqué publié par Wikipédia :

« Google Inc. has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects. The terms of the offer are currently being discussed by the board. The developer committee has been informed of some of the details via email. A private IRC meeting with Google is planned for March, 2005. Please note that this agreement does not mean there is any requirement for us to include advertising on the site. More details will be put here when the offer is allowed to be made public. »