[WikiEN-l] New York Times article

Sun Jun 18 12:19:49 UTC 2006

On Jun 17, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:

> On 6/17/06, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> The New York Times has an article on Wikipedia called "
>>  Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy
>>
>
> This is remarkably poor journalism. It shows that the media are
> clutching at straws to write about us. I hope the recently created
> Communications Committee is building personal connections to some of
> the journalists involved, and will occasionally feed them interesting
> "exclusive" stories in addition to regular press releases. We can't
> prevent the press from screwing up, but perhaps at least we can give
> them a better idea about things which are actually happening, e.g:
> - ongoing reorganization of Wikimedia, heated debates about the
> non-profit's future
> - 1,000 featured articles, ongoing experiments towards Wikipedia  
> 0.5/1.0
> - Wikimedia Commons becoming a gigantic archive of functional free
> content (643,000 files, ~250 GB)
> etc.
>
> Erik

Yes, a typical report about riding a horse by someone who choses not  
to ride one.

Fred

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