On 1/26/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This was a MAJOR news story and it came completely out
of the blue.
But it is an ongoing problem for Wikipedia - we don't want companies
fearful of dealing with us in case they get the sort of bad press this
issue got Microsoft and Doug Mahugh. How can we get better at this,
quickly?
- d.
Check out this article:
http://www.tmcnet.com/news/2007/01/26/2285485.htm
Apparently Mathias Schindler has been in contact with MS, giving a
different line.
For what it's worth, I don't see that Microsoft did anything obviously
wrong. At this point, we definitely need a clear and responsive
system for coordinating paid editing. We've recognized for a while
now that paid editing will happen. It will definitely be in our best
interest to set up a system to facilitate it and give a sense of
fairness to entities like MS who want to do things above-the-board.
-Sage