[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia in the news

[Caroline Ford]

Lee Pilich wrote:

> Rick wrote:
> >An interview with Jimmy Wales and info about Wikipedia:
> >http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=504287
>
> Page 11 of the review section, for those taking notes. Accompanying 
> pictures: a pile of dusty-looking books, and a photo of some kids 
> gathered round a computer monitor, apparently in thrall of the 
> knowledge presented before their eyeballs.
>
> Ec wrote:
> >Too bad they don't realize that it's wikipedia.org rather than
> >wikipedia.com.
>
> They also say "Any self-styled expert in a subject can write or edit 
> an article about anything to join the 200,000 others in the Wikipedia, 
> *as long as they give the intellectual property to the project*" (my 
> asterisks) which is a bit wide of the mark.
>
> I also wonder if the article talks up Jimbo's role in the whole thing 
> a bit - I mean, he's our spiritual leader, benevolent dictator and 
> sugar daddy, I know, but things like "To manage the editing process, 
> Wales uses the Wiki..." make him sound a bit like editor-in-cheif as 
> well.
>
> I'm sort of picking fault, really. It's not a bad article on the whole.
>
> Fred wrote:
> >Remember we are talking about a
> >multi-volume work, or are we?
>
> As I understand it, that's not what is being talked about at the 
> moment (though it's something many would aspire to for the future). 
> The talk has been of a single-volume concise work, along the lines of 
> the Columbia or Britannica Concise encyclopedias. Comparisons with the 
> full EB made in the article are somewhat premature, methinks.
>
> I refer you to Jimbo's original post on the subject: 
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-February/011045.html
>
> ---
>
> I'm interested in how these things get in papers by the way. Most 
> previous coverage, I think, has come from press releases, but this 
> article is mainly about a paper version, about which there have been 
> no offical pronouncements that I'm aware of. So what happened here - 
> did somebody go to the paper about this, or did the paper go to Jimbo 
> out of the blue? Just curious. If it's the latter, it's surely a sign 
> that we're being taken really quite seriously (something which 
> probably shouldn't surprise me, but which nontheless regularly does).
>
> Lee (Camembert)
>
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I sent the press release to the independent some time ago. I also did 
the BBC - maybe it paid off?

Caroline