On 06/02/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/02/07, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That's awesome to hear, and will become more
and more common I
imagine. Unfortunately most of the press I see still acts as if the
only thing WMF does is run English Wikipedia, grooh.
It's by far our biggest and most popular project, so attracts the
attention. But I do try to make a point of mentioning 200 languages
and other projects.
Journalists' ears in particular prick up at Commons being a free image
repository. "It's not quite Getty Images, but we're working on it.
Once the search doesn't suck." I think that describes its potential
and problems quite succinctly and accurately ;-)
Nice one :)
or maybe 'It's like Flickr, with less photos of people you don't know,
and more useful content. Once the search doesn't suck."
Brianna