[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article

[David Gerard]

2009/8/18 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:

> Err ... it's Wikipedia's fault if hurried journalists today do nothing
> but research on it and misinterpret what they find? Puh-lease. To get
> from that to "It was formally launched on January 15 in 2001 by Ward
> Cunningham and Richard Stallman" you need to do plenty of
> miscomprehension exercises. Remember: hacks get _paid_ to do this work,
> often quite large sums, and (in the UK) are supposed to spend time
> learning the importance of getting the facts straight. Not
> copying-and-pasting, and then mangling the sense. They have subeditors
> who are _paid_ to do the mangling.


This is why I have no fear whatsoever of the Associated Press's plans
to compete directly with Wikipedia.


- d.