Is there a rival to Wikipedia?

What does Wikipedia (and the wikimedia foundation) think of Semantic Web version of the encyclopedia DBpedia?

• From their site: "DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web." From: http://www.dbpedia.org/About It aims to offer a variety of additional features on top of the basic Wikipedia dataset and site such as the ability to query multiple articles using SPARQL and to allow other Semantic Web applications to have stable linking endpoints for a large variety of concepts in a number of different languages. So, I wonder what the founders and/or members of the foundation officially think of the project? Do they support the initiative or do they prefer that everyone just reads Wikipedia directly or uses the data that's available from the public http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API? On the one hand it may cannibalize a certain number of page views or miss out on having Wikipedia URLs themselves as the "de facto" enpoints for all important topics, but on the other hand it is an important initiative to make the Semantic Web vision a reality. All code is open sourced with examples in multiple programming languages on the site, and they provide information on how others can use the data in their own applications. UPDATE: Also, I notice that Wikipedia seems to at least accidentally if not  purposely follow the tenets of the Linked Open Data movement by  publishing a raw dump of the wikipedia database: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps so does that mean my question is answered? In writing this update, a second question came to mind also:

• Answer:

  In general, I believe most people are okay with it. The only problems are: Firstly, Wikipedia changes what's on the page. It's sort of part of the point of Wikipedia that it can be changed at any point. Therefore the whole "stable URLs" thing isn't something Wikipedia actually does particularly well. That said, that is an engineering choice for Dbpedia vs. . Secondly, some people are concerned that not enough attribution is given back to Wikipedia to satisfy the license.