On 25/08/07, Any File <anysomefile(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 David Gerard wrote:
> On 24/08/07, Robert Brockway <robert(a)timetraveller.org> wrote:
> > Morning. The Australian foreign minister,
Mr Alexander Downer, has been
> > quoted as stating that Wikipedia is "anti-government".
> It's fairly clear he was floundering and
didn't have a clue.
In my opinion the real problem is the question made by
the journalist.
It is not understandable and definitively incorrect. I would have
replied saying that the question was not understandable, but
politicians need to be more polite and diplomatic (although he said
that there was some problems in the question, even if in a polite way.
Alexander Downer is well-known for being good when he's been briefed,
but for not being good talking unprepared; his response was in line
with this. You can be quite sure that if he were asked the same
question today he'd do a lot better.
I'm not sure if any Australian Wikimedians have been in touch with his
office yet, I hope they have.
-d.