This
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081230-wikipedias-new-plea-for-donati...
is now showing up on Digg. Anyone on damage control?
Michel
Michel Vuijlsteke wrote:
This
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081230-wikipedias-new-plea-for-donati...
is now showing up on Digg. Anyone on damage control?
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Damage?
Jon
Gah, yet another use of the thread I started to misrepresent Wikimedia and the fundraising drive.
I still find it really surprising that people who purport to write useful columns and articles, even if its blogging and not mainstream news, do such piss poor research. If it were me, I'd be embarrassed to have written something that demonstrates such a high level of ignorance and misunderstanding - particularly since Wikipedia and Wikimedia are not, in any sense, minor elements of the Web world and ArsTechnica is, supposedly, "plugged in" to the Web and technology.
Lol, they put MERKEY into their piece? Hilarious. Way to kill your credibility, guys. They have some valid points but Merkey? heh.
CM
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:50:50 -0500 From: nawrich@gmail.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism
I still find it really surprising that people who purport to write useful columns and articles, even if its blogging and not mainstream news, do such piss poor research. If it were me, I'd be embarrassed to have written something that demonstrates such a high level of ignorance and misunderstanding - particularly since Wikipedia and Wikimedia are not, in any sense, minor elements of the Web world and ArsTechnica is, supposedly, "plugged in" to the Web and technology.
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Christiano Moreschi wrote:
Lol, they put MERKEY into their piece? Hilarious. Way to kill your credibility, guys. They have some valid points but Merkey? heh.
CM
They did include a caveat: "(Keep in mind that Merkey has a reputation of his own as well. Jimmy Wales denies any wrongdoing in all of these supposed incidents.)"
The linked site, http://scofacts.org/merkey.html, is hardly flattering to Merkey.
-- gwern
2008/12/31 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com:
I still find it really surprising that people who purport to write useful columns and articles, even if its blogging and not mainstream news, do such piss poor research. If it were me, I'd be embarrassed to have written something that demonstrates such a high level of ignorance and misunderstanding - particularly since Wikipedia and Wikimedia are not, in any sense, minor elements of the Web world and ArsTechnica is, supposedly, "plugged in" to the Web and technology.
Ad-banner trolling.
The tech press in general are whores, cheap diseased ones. Previously whores to print advertisers, now whores to ad-banner trolling. So unsubstantiable bullshit is the order of the day, because IT GETS THE CLICKS.
It's so much nicer dealing with the mainstream press - at least they can spell "journalism."
- d.