-- Mark Gallagher 0439 704 975 http://formonelane.net/ "Even potatoes have their bad days, Igor." --- Count Duckula On Sat 17/05/08 04:30 , "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote: > On 16/05/2008, Christiano Moreschi wrote: > > > > That's true, but in general I think we get a lot of bad press > that we simply don't deserve. > So does anything in the public eye. There might be something we can > do > to reduce it, but we certainly can't eliminate it. My point was that > it isn't actually harming us in any significant way, so why bother > doing anything about it at all? > > Obviously, we do many things wrong at Wikipedia, some of which we > are justly censured for. > Yes, such cases do arise and then we do need to do something about > it, > absolutely. > > But so often I read some hit job in the press and think "Oh, > that's just a misunderstanding. These people don't get quite how wiki > works. If only I'd been able to explain at the time..." > Often the reason no-one was able to explain it at the time was > because > the journalist in question didn't want to understand, they just > wanted > a sensational story, so they didn't ask anyone about it (at least, > not > anyone that could actually help). > > Quite often, of course, there's no response from WMF (not > asked?), or no coordinated one, so this doesn't help. > There often is a response, though. Take a look at Sue's latest > monthly > report on foundation-l, under the communication section it lists who > they've spoken to in the press, and it's a decent length list. I > imagine when they don't respond it's a concious decision and not a > lack of co-ordination. > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > >