Comment by bjourne
15 days ago
In the early days of Wikipedia many articles were taken directly from the CIA Factbook since it was public domain. Numerous Wikipedians have fond memories of it and remembers it as something the US did that was actually good and not evil shit. That and America's Army. Cheap ways to gain goodwill. Maybe in the grand scheme of things it didn't matter.
America’s Army didn’t strike me as cheap at the time - but definitely was in the context of the budget of the US military.