On 8/22/06, Michelle D'israeli m.k.disraeli@bham.ac.uk wrote:
Before my main thoughts, an idea just (literally) occured to me - have the Germans discussed this yet? They seem to be ahead of the game on a number of points, from what i've bumped into. Unfortunately, my german vocabulary is very limited, so I can't really go have a look :(
This is timing. The german newspaper "Die Welt" has just today written an article just about mywikibiz
http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html
Als wichtigstes Nachschlagewerk des Internets wird Wikipedia immer mehr zum Ziel von Werbe- und PR-Profis. Enzyklopädieartikel gegen Geld bietet nun eine PR-Agentur ihren Unternehmenskunden. Ein Angebot, das die Wikipedia-Community in Aufregung versetzt.
(Being the most important reference work of the internet, Wikipedia is becoming more and more a target of PR and advertisement-professionals. A PR agency is now offering encyclopedic articles for money to their customers. [This is] an offer that causes quit a stir within the Wikipedia community)
80% of the article is about the mywikibiz.com thing, the remaining part is about the Siemens thing when someone edited [[:de:Klaus Kleinfeld]].
Mathias