This morning I went into BBC Television Centre and did a remote radio interview for BBC Radio Wales 'Mousemat', which is to be run in this Sunday's programme - 5pm Sunday, repeated 6pm Wednesday. If you're not in Wales, you can pick it up on Sky TV channel 0117, or on the website for a week after broadcast:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/shows/mousemat.shtml
I covered how Wikipedia works, how we keep it from turning to rubbish, how good it is ("it's not perfect, and we're painfully aware of its problems, but it's *pretty good*"), the millionth article (how you can get so much good detail out of an unremarkable suburban railway station) and I did a *big* push for Welsh speakers to get in on the ground floor of cy.wikipedia - en. has 1,000,000 articles, but cy. has 4,000 and there's endless room to work on a really *good* Welsh encyclopedia. The Welsh language is undergoing bit of a revival - everyone there speaks English, but learn Welsh first, it's popular with its ethnicity, it's something people feel they *should* know if they're Welsh and of course kids learn it so their parents won't understand them, and the parents learn to keep up with them ;-)
They recorded about 15 minutes, of which they'll probably use 5 or 6.
And I'm apparently to receive a small payment for my trouble. :-O Just as well since I'm presently not on a contract. (Gi's a job!)
- d.