On Dec 19, 2007 6:26 PM, Nathan Awrich nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder what Cade Metz' issue with Wikipedia is. Maybe he's threatened because its moving into his backyard.
He's written for The Register for some time. One can presume that they added Wikipedia to the list of things he's expected to be covering as a natural outgrowth of the Foundation moving to San Francisco.
That is par for the course for any news or features oriented organization.
A perfectly innocent explanation, rather than either Metz or The Register suddenly deciding to focus malign intent on Wikipedia, is simply that Metz is one of many tech reporters in the San Francisco region, many of whose attention we're going to get more of with the Foundation in their back yard.
For a vast majority of them this is a good thing for us and will benefit the Foundation and projects over time.
Metz started off jumping on some salacious and critical points about Wikipedia; while unfortunate, we can hope that he does work towards a more normal coverage over time, consistent with the usual The Register standards. The Reg is not the New York Times by any means, but also doesn't *just* focus on negative stories all the time.