[Foundation-l] Are we useful yet?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 10:43:49 UTC 2008


2008/9/9 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2008/9/8 Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com>:

>> Presumably the foundations and corporate funders know how to evaluate
>> us, whether it is on some statistical basis, on some good-intentions
>> test, on a feel-good basis, or based on how it contributes to their
>> own objectives.

> Wikipedia is popular, useful and people like it lots. It's unreliable
> but has a lot of good will - when the WikiScanner hit the news, the
> media and public were outraged at the organisations POV-pushing on
> Wikipedia, not at us.


To clarify: "You do Wikipedia? Excellent! Are you halfway competent?
Excellent! Have some money! My name in the press release? Excellent!
Thank you!"

It's a start :-)


- d.




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