[WikiEN-l] BBC blog on WSJ study

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Carcharoth wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/11/wikipedia_on_the_wane.html
>>>
>>
>> Some interesting comments have been posted to that blog.
>>
> And of course some off-topic ranting. The original WSJ article shows how
> easy it is to put together a newspaper article of people's gripes. Which
> is not that surprising after eight and a half years of Wikipedia. But no
> way does it do a good job of identifying what is going on, in terms that
> stand up to analysis. And I mean something intermediate between sweeping
> generalisations and anecdotal evidence.

Oh, absolutely.

> Anyone else feel that Mr. Murdoch's little list beginning "1. Trash
> Google rather than actually noindex News Corp's pages" has Wikipedia as
> alternate new source somewhere on it?

That's a bit too cryptic for me. I know a little about Murdoch and his
stable of media publications, but not sure what the tie-up is with
Google and Wikipedia.

Carcharoth