[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Print journalism is so passe.  Once Microsoft has market coverage for 
their "whole house computer" we won't need to take anything into the 
bathroom to read anymore.

Do you surf on your ipod while on the toilet?  45% of readers say ....




-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com; English Wikipedia 
<wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 3:33 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article


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.

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