We had a criticism last year at one of our events that by making text
freely available we are undermining the employability of the
journalists and authors who would otherwise have written those
paragraphs about composers, musicians or species. We should (and
generally do) confront this head-on and make it a central part of our
messaging about our public benefit: Wikimedia UK's activities are not
just improving Wikimedia sites, but other big-name sites such as the
BBC's. We're saving licence-fee money by making it relatively cheap
for the BBC to have comprehensive web sites about music and about
nature. And so on.
Even journalists and writers are better off because of it, because
we're not in competition with people who write with a distinctive,
personal, non-encyclopedic voice.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Jon Davies
<jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
If there is another information organisation as
trusted as us it would be
the BBC so all good!
Quoting Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk>uk>:
The BBC have been using content from Wikipedia
for quite a few years
(hence why it still says GFDL on it rather than CC-BY-SA - that does need
updating). My favourite example is BBC Wildlife, e.g. see the bottom of:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Arctic_Fox
Thanks,
Mike
On 13 Apr 2012, at 09:14, Magnus Manske wrote:
Someone should tell them about that GFDL note,
though...
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
Was chasing up something I had heard on the radio this morning and came
to
this BBC link - nice link to us
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/284382df-ae6d-4631-999a-ce6204f29c45
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