[WikiEN-l] "Wicked-pedia" in today's Daily Mail

[David Gerard]

On 23/04/07, Martin Peeks <martinp23 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On a more serious note - it would help if something were to be done to tell
> those reporting just why Wikipedia articles can be vandalised, and what we
> do to repair it.


Every press call on the subject ... though they seem to have been
dropping in frequency.


>  For what I've heard of the newspaper article (I haven't
> read it yet), they followed the usual process of looking through revisions
> (or introducing deliberate vandalism) and reporting these instances as
> examples of Wikipedia being evil, only their to poolute our childrens'
> minds, must be banned (you see where I'm going with this..).  Hopefully
> when/if stable revisions arrive, a lot of the complaints will slow down.  As
> Wikipedia grows, and gets more press attention, its faults are pointed out
> more and more often, so we need to do all we can to nullify these concerns,
> and crucially let the media know how a we are taking care of the issues.


Stable versions will be a MASSIVE public relations boost. Even
journalists who understand how Wikipedia works (and many do) will
appreciate it becoming even theoretically fixable.


- d.