2009/11/27 Durova <nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.