kassemi
I'd bet by stopping the water supply (out), disabling wifi and power, we can solve the destruction of evidence issue which could warrant the police actions.
Additionally, we could send a robot in place to search for unsafe conditions prior to the entry by armed police.
What other issues do we need to solve make this not happen while we wait for politics to catch up?
Any other encyclopedia and any wiki-formatted knowledge store could be considered close competition. Wikipedia's in the business of providing high-level (and often low) level information, and there are tons of players in that space - just perhaps not as generalized and overreaching.
Wikipedia is a non-profit. They don't really make more money by having more people use the site
Which doesn't mean that it can't compete with other entities, just that it does so under a special set of rules. It's still in the best interest of Wikipedia to keep up traffic.
Our startup is tackling this domain, and we'd love to hear more of these "petty issues" web and mobile apps need to resolve before shipping - we've found that, while seemingly minor, they present a huge hindrance to the launch of developer side projects.
For environment-based configuration values and multi-member teams, I wrote conf_conf [1].