[WikiEN-l] More about PR firms - First post here by myself

[Mathias Schindler]

On 8/22/06, Michelle D'israeli <m.k.disraeli at bham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Before my main thoughts, an idea just (literally) occured to me -
> have the Germans discussed this yet? They seem to be ahead of
> the game on a number of points, from what i've bumped into.
> Unfortunately, my german vocabulary is very limited, so I can't
> really go have a look :(


This is timing. The german newspaper "Die Welt" has just today written
an article just about mywikibiz

http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/24/1009086.html

Als wichtigstes Nachschlagewerk des Internets wird Wikipedia immer
mehr zum Ziel von Werbe- und PR-Profis. Enzyklopädieartikel gegen Geld
bietet nun eine PR-Agentur ihren Unternehmenskunden. Ein Angebot, das
die Wikipedia-Community in Aufregung versetzt.


(Being the most important reference work of the internet, Wikipedia is
becoming more and more a target of PR and advertisement-professionals.
A PR agency is now offering encyclopedic articles for money to their
customers. [This is] an offer that causes quit a stir within the
Wikipedia community)

80% of the article is about the mywikibiz.com thing, the remaining
part is about the Siemens thing when someone edited [[:de:Klaus
Kleinfeld]].

Mathias