[Foundation-l] Are we useful yet?
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 10:43:49 UTC 2008
2008/9/9 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2008/9/8 Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com>:
>> Presumably the foundations and corporate funders know how to evaluate
>> us, whether it is on some statistical basis, on some good-intentions
>> test, on a feel-good basis, or based on how it contributes to their
>> own objectives.
> Wikipedia is popular, useful and people like it lots. It's unreliable
> but has a lot of good will - when the WikiScanner hit the news, the
> media and public were outraged at the organisations POV-pushing on
> Wikipedia, not at us.
To clarify: "You do Wikipedia? Excellent! Are you halfway competent?
Excellent! Have some money! My name in the press release? Excellent!
Thank you!"
It's a start :-)
- d.
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