I finally got round to chasing down the edition of Time with the wikipedia article in it.
I thought it was quite a good article. Best of all, I got to see a picture of our
founder. Jimbo looks like a pretty normal bloke - in fact, weren't you standing next
to me at the footy the other day?
You might recall that around the time this article appeared there was some talk about the
press not being interested in the smaller wiki projects, etc. Anyway, as chance would
have it, a couple of days ago I get an e-mail from a lady saying she is a journalist with
some Italian newspaper and wants to write about my web site (presumably that meant
scn.wiki, but I wasn't sure). Being a competent, modern male, I did what comes
naturally and absolutely panicked - flick passing the message to some of my fellow
wikipedians who might be better positioned geographically (is that a tautology?). The
thought of trying to speak Italian over a bad line from Tuggeranong, and trying to
pronounce my unaccented O's and E's correctly was more than I could stand.
Anyway, my colleague, Peppi (who is actually based in Switzerland), did get through to
her. As it turns out, she is writing about a number of sicilian websites, but it looks
like we are getting a definite mention. In case you are anywhere near Palermo in the next
few days, you might be able to catch the article in the Palermo edition of La Repubblica
(I hope I spelled that correctly).
Tanti cosi beddi e salutamu.
pippu d'angelo, tuggeranong (yes, it's spelled correctly)
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