On 26/01/07, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Yeah - that's my first reaction, compared with Mathias' - and my - second reaction. I'd file that article under "conflict is news."
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.
Yeah. When I first heard about this, I (and half the blogosphere and the tech press and then the mainstream press) reacted "WHAT ON EARTH." Then Mathias contacted Doug and Rick, and cc'd me in and I responded too. As I said, I think this particular issue is pretty much resolved - Doug is monitoring the talk page, there's a LOT of editor eyes on it now and it'll be a much better article in a few weeks.
The issue is what happens for all the other cases.
- d.