On 3/24/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Is a response necessary?
only if journalists start emailing us about this. And still, there is no need for a response, as Britannica is showing in an astonishing way:
"Britannica refused comment at the time and did formally respond until this week, more than three months later.
Britannica spokesman Tom Panelas declined comment Thursday beyond the article on its Web site."
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/03/23/ap2618333.html
Our best position is to acknowledge the errors in Wikipedia that were identified by Nature, and to point out that we have worked to correct them.
that is actually being done: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Press/2006/03/22...