On 3/24/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Is a response necessary?
only if journalists start emailing us about this. And still, there is
no need for a response, as Britannica is showing in an astonishing
way:
"Britannica refused comment at the time and did formally respond until
this week, more than three months later.
Britannica spokesman Tom Panelas declined comment Thursday beyond the
article on its Web site."
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/03/23/ap2618333.html
Our best position is to acknowledge the errors in
Wikipedia that were
identified by Nature, and to point out that we have worked to correct
them.
that is actually being done:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Press/2006/03/2…