Wikipedia parent forges ahead with new travel wiki, sues Internet Brands for getting in the way
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The battle lines are clear now: Wikimedia is moving ahead with plans to create a new travel wiki, and Internet Brands is trying to protect its own commercial interests in its existing Wikitravel. This showdown will be a turning point in the wiki movement.
The Wikimedia Foundation has formally decided to move ahead with the creation of a new, non-commercial travel wiki and has sued Internet Brands for allegedly impeding the effort.
The foundation, which is the parent of Wikipedia, filed a lawsuit September 5 in Superior Court in San Francisco against Internet Brands, which operates the for-profit Wikitravel, seeking a court declaration that Internet Brands has no right to block or threaten Wikimedia from copying content from Wikitravel that was created under the Creative Commons license.
"Now, therefore, it [Wikimedia] seeks a judicial declaration that it may continue its mission by pursuing the creation of a new travel wiki without intimidation or interference from IB [Internet Brands], whether directed against Wikimedia or against individ
