[WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

[Sam Blacketer]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Well, in relative terms, anyway:
> >
> >
> http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/04/The_age_of_austerity_speech_to_the_2009_Spring_Forum.aspx
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/dxdujw
> >
> > "Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to
> > reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest
> > websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280
> > million people."
> >
> > Not sure if his figures are accurate, but it's intriguing.
>
> Does this mean the Tories will be composing their next manifesto by
> wiki?  If so, is David Cameron founder or co-founder?
>

It shows some confidence that he should mention wikipedia, given the
problems over the Titian edits not so long ago.

-- 
Sam Blacketer