[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia has PR Problems

[Mark Gallagher]

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On Sat 17/05/08 04:30 , "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/05/2008, Christiano Moreschi  wrote:
> >
> >  That's true, but in general I think we get a lot of bad press
> that we simply don't deserve.
> So does anything in the public eye. There might be something we can
> do
> to reduce it, but we certainly can't eliminate it. My point was that
> it isn't actually harming us in any significant way, so why bother
> doing anything about it at all?
> > Obviously, we do many things wrong at Wikipedia, some of which we
> are justly censured for.
> Yes, such cases do arise and then we do need to do something about
> it,
> absolutely.
> > But so often I read some hit job in the press and think "Oh,
> that's just a misunderstanding. These people don't get quite how wiki
> works. If only I'd been able to explain at the time..."
> Often the reason no-one was able to explain it at the time was
> because
> the journalist in question didn't want to understand, they just
> wanted
> a sensational story, so they didn't ask anyone about it (at least,
> not
> anyone that could actually help).
> >  Quite often, of course, there's no response from WMF (not
> asked?), or no coordinated one, so this doesn't help.
> There often is a response, though. Take a look at Sue's latest
> monthly
> report on foundation-l, under the communication section it lists who
> they've spoken to in the press, and it's a decent length list. I
> imagine when they don't respond it's a concious decision and not a
> lack of co-ordination.
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