2009/11/27 Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com:
It's hard to understand the conjecture that Wikipedia ties in with those plans. If anything, Wikipedia's habit of referencing historic news articles would help Mr. Murdoch's bottom line because it sends traffic to old articles, which can generate advertising revenue from old news that would otherwise be valueless.
Dunno about Murdoch, but the NYT was making similar noises about Google and in fact claimed that Wikipedia was ripping them off by referencing their articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/technology/internet/22wiki.html
"So, in essence, many Wikipedia articles are another way that the work of news publications is quickly condensed and reused without compensation."
This is more than a little rich considering Wikipedia is the number-one universal backgrounder for working journalists. A number of us shouted WHAT ON EARTH rather loudly:
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/technology/...
- but we've yet to hear a peep from Noam Cohen explaining just precisely what the hell he was playing at. I urge the next person he calls to question him closely on this one.
- d.