>Now Jossi is obviously a very, very strange person and even a pretty unusual true believer so I certainly don't think this paragraph covers the whole spectrum of his weirdness.<
Figuring out someone's motivation from what they do on the Internet is near impossible. I know I keep saying this but ... there is a very simple explanation for what Jossi Fresco is doing with Wikipedia - and it does not require him to be anything other than a media professional.
Wikipedia offers an opportunity for Jossi/Rawat to achieve maximal search engine domination at near zero cost. All it takes is Jossi's time to ensure that the various articles are 'on message' and kept bumped in the search engine rankings. The rankings are artificially high because anything on Wikipedia gets a high register, plus all the affiliated sites and alternate language versions have the effect of providing a 'wash' across many pages of search returns.
Jossi may or may not be "very strange" but his activities on Wikipedia look to me to be simply 'taking care of business'. Of course what he's doing is anti free speech but since when has making money been known as an entirely democratising process. Jossi (IMO) is just pursuing a basic 'message domination' strategy to protect the Rawat brand - it's what every market sensitive business does every day.
Nik
