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You might be right, but I think you confused Wikipedia's goal with Google's.

I looked (casually) and did not find anything on Wikipedia that said its goal was "to collect and provide the totality of human knowledge, for free."

There's a whole huge article on Wikipedia that contradicts this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ISNOT

Well, technically it's the goal of the Wikimedia Foundation in general, rather than the Wikipedia project in particular.

See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home which states:

"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."

It's clearly not the goal of Wikipedia itself.

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