On 17/12/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/12/2007, Daniel R. Tobias
<dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
From the media
reaction to all this, it is very clear that Wikipedia's honeymoon is
long over. A few years ago, the media, blogosphere, general public,
and the ranks of Wikipedians themselves were full of people in their
initial bloom of enthusiasm ...
I'm really not sure this has faded as much as you make out. I mean, I
stumbled across *yet another* of those "let's look at Wikipedia, isn't
it really exciting" articles today entirely by accident -
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid52864.aspx
It does indeed have some criticism - but the tone is generally upbeat
and favourable, and it doesn't seem materially much different to stuff
I was reading a year or two back.
There's probably just as much positive media attention as there was a
couple of years ago, the problem is the negative attention that we get
in addition to that, which has grown enormously. It's an inevitable
part of being successful, but we can't just ignore it.