[WikiEN-l] Guardian interview to appear Monday

[Steve Bennett]

Stop with the detailed summaries, you're going to cost them sales! :)

j/k

Steve

On 3/8/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just spoke to Natalie Hanman from the Guardian. This is to appear in
> Monday's paper, in the 'Office Hours' column in the Media section.
> This will be in the paper edition and *may not* be in the online
> edition (they tend not to put up the entire Media section).
>
> A reader had written in saying they'd read about Wikipedia's
> unreliability and asked if Wikipedia was any good; and she also wanted
> to know if it was good for office workers at their desks. I said we
> weren't as good as Britannica as yet, but we were better than anything
> else on the web, so the more media we get saying how bad we are the
> more readers we get ... and office workers don't have the Britannica
> on their desk but they *do* have Wikipedia. For usefulness, I pointed
> out that as an IT contractor, I use Wikipedia as a reference work
> daily. It's fabulous for computer and technical stuff, to quickly get
> yourself up to speed on what a piece of jargon is in 60 seconds. And
> Nature measured us as equal to Britannica in science. And we were
> no.12 in the world on Alexa yesterday, and we've been no.1 reference
> site for months now.
>
> So the main message was: we're not Britannica, but we're better than
> *anything* else readily available on the web. "We make the Web not
> suck." And we're actually good and useful as a reference work *right
> now*.
>
>
> - d.
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