On 16/12/2007, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
From the media reaction to all this, it is very clear that Wikipedia's honeymoon is long over. A few years ago, the media, blogosphere, general public, and the ranks of Wikipedians themselves were full of people in their initial bloom of enthusiasm ...
I'm really not sure this has faded as much as you make out. I mean, I stumbled across *yet another* of those "let's look at Wikipedia, isn't it really exciting" articles today entirely by accident - http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid52864.aspx
It does indeed have some criticism - but the tone is generally upbeat and favourable, and it doesn't seem materially much different to stuff I was reading a year or two back.