On 11/03/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/11/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
This may be a matter of judgment and who the target audience is, but in my experience #1 and #2 aren't really things people don't know about Wikipedia. People get lots of things wrong about us, but that Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia run by a non-profit organization is usually gotten right.
I've seen rather a lot of "will google buy wikipedia?" blogs and forum threads.
Yes. And the media *don't* understand it's all written by volunteers. I use the phrase "It's a volunteer-driven nonprofit charity. There's about ten staff who run the office and the web servers. But almost all of it's volunteers all the way down." This actually has to be said!
- d.