---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com Date: 08-Aug-2006 15:20 Subject: WikiEN-l commentary To: dgerard@gmail.com

Dear David,

I appreciate your feedback. There has been a lot of "buzz" within the Wikipedia admin community about our service, MyWikiBiz.com. I've counted two different discussion pages where our intent has been questioned, and now your mailing list. Thankfully, in each of these discussions, it seems that we're getting "support" comments in about a 2-to-1 ratio to "disapprove" comments.

While I'd like to join your mailing list, honestly, I'm just too busy right now trying to get the marketing side of the business working. So far, the results of our efforts have been on the disappointing side. All of the Wikipedians in a panic over what we're embarking on may have nothing to worry about if we can't even get sales to come in at a steady pace.

However, I'd like you to rest assured that MyWikiBiz.com does NOT intend to write "press release" style articles for our clients. We understand that Wikipedia is an ENCYCLOPEDIA, and not a advertising flyer. (Granted, we will try to sell our prospects on the "traffic" and "exposure" aspects of Wikipedia, but they are not going to get a rose-colored-glasses, non-NPOV posting from MyWikiBiz.) Examples of our articles can be found at "Norman Technologies" and at "The Family and Workplace Connection". The "Farsight Hotel" article was intended merely as a "mock" example. I meant to have it created in the Wikipedia sandbox, but it went to the actual database by another employee's mistake. I quickly deleted the article, once we had captured the screen shots we wanted.

If you'd like, please re-post this message to WikiEN-l -- you have my permission to act as our agent at this time. ;-)

Kindly,

Greg