Tony Sidaway (minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com) [050405
22:31]:
Daniel Mayer said:
> I also recycled a proposal that 'Did you
know...?' could be used to
> list odd and surprising facts for that day from our growing list of
> unusual articles.
As long as whatever you're doing doesn't
kill the kind of spontaneity that
had the toilet roll holder article on the main page, I don't mind.
Everybody I showed it to loved it. Even people who wouldn't normally be
interested in Wikipedia thought it was a really well written bit of
nonsense.
Yes. All those who said this would lessen Wikipedia's reputation - is there
any evidence of such, e.g. in press, blogs even?
- d.
Most references in a Google news search for Wikipedia are news outlets
referencing Wikipedia for facts. That alone should be encouraging
(even if personally I don't think much of a news outlet for relying
solely on Wikipedia).
These are about the only 1 April refs I could find using Google news
search. The latter two just report the takeover word for word. The
first two links mention Wikipedia in the context of a roundup of April
Fools gags:
So, no-one major seems to have particularly made much of it at all.
Zoney
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