[Wikipedia-l] Article on Wikipedia/Nupedia in swiss news magazine

[Brion L. VIBBER]

On ĵaŭ, 2002-04-11 at 02:57, Tobias Hoevekamp wrote:
> There is an article about Wikipedia and Nupedia in the latest issue
> of Switzerland largest weekly news magazine (http://www.facts.ch).
> It's in german though and not available online...
> 
> Anyhow, if you don't have a chance to buy a copy of 'facts' you might
> want to have a look at a jpg-image of the 2 page article (300 kByte)
> http://www.vt.ilw.agrl.ethz.ch/~hoevekam/tmp/facts.jpg. (I'll ask
> the author of the article to provide an online version...)
> 
> I think it's a nice article giving a well-balanced introduction to
> - mainly - Wikipedia. OK, the picture of Larry with it's title is 
> kind of out-dated and it wasn't clear to me, that they will include
> it, when I 'proof-read' the article. BTW, I am the guy hiding behind 
> some books on the second picture... 

Cool! Time to break out the old Woerterbuch...

> Hope that makes up for some of the trouble with 24 etc...

More good news: the Orthodox Baha'i guy has seen the error of his ways
and is working to improve the NPOVized article rather than constantly
reverting the page to his old version. Hurray! See, *some* people learn
to work with the community, errrr group of regular participants. :)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)