On 29 Aug 2010, at 13:04, David Gerard wrote:
On 29 August 2010 12:09, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
I'm really puzzled how they managed to get the description of the Wikimedia community so wrong, considering that talked to them on the phone about this on Friday afternoon and thought that I'd explained this to them. A bit of basic fact-checking should have shown up the non-existance of a "Wikipedia committee" (and, of course, the existence of the "online encyclopedia that anyone can edit" bit...).
Having a space to fill in the silly season, and fundamentally really not giving a hoot what it's filled with or whether it even makes sense. This is why Wikipedia media coverage peaks in August.[citation needed]
The good news is that the Telegraph article on this topic is much better: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/7970312/Agatha-Christies-fami...
Mike Peel