Michael Peel wrote:
I've just spoken to Rory by phone, and managed to
touch on a number
of different topics with him - including the Usability Initiative,
the bookshelf project, Britain Loves Wikipedia and other local
events, etc. There were lots of issues that I didn't cover (different
language versions, strategy, different viewpoints on the
numbers, ...), so I would encourage others to also get in touch with
him.
I'm generally uneasy about talking about these particular numbers, as
it isn't yet clear to me either how accurate they are or what exactly
they mean. As a scientist, I'm very hesitant to talk about results as
if they're black and white, as they rarely are - unfortunately that's
how the media like doing things, hence the stories that are coming
out about how wikipedia is dying - again. Odd how it never actually
seems to die...
For information, I spoke briefly to the author of the article from
the Times on Monday, but referred him to Jay at the WMF as I didn't
real comfortable talking about the numbers. Unfortunately, Jay's in
Tokyo for the japanese wikiconference this week, hence wasn't able to
respond to the Times before they ran their story.
I've had no other calls/emails from any other media organizations
about this story.
Mike
On 25 Nov 2009, at 11:33, Steve Bowbrick wrote:
"Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages" By JULIA ANGWIN and GEOFFREY A.
FOWLER
Work by Felipe Ortega....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125893981183759969.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Gordo