Imma put on my tinfoil hat for a sec. Considering how wikipedia exists and survives on the back of public good will, I can't see how this is anything other than an intentional attempt to kill free information.

think about it.

Grease a few palms and some megacorp gets their patsy in charge of the biggest free and open repository of information in existence. Then it's only a matter of time before that institution falls only to be replaced by a worse service that harvests your data while demanding a monthly subscription.