[WikiEN-l] "Fatally Flawed" -- Internal Britannica Review Tackles Nature Methods

[Mathias Schindler]

On 3/24/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Is a response necessary?

only if journalists start emailing us about this. And still, there is
no need for a response, as Britannica is showing in an astonishing
way:

"Britannica refused comment at the time and did formally respond until
this week, more than three months later.

Britannica spokesman Tom Panelas declined comment Thursday beyond the
article on its Web site."

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/03/23/ap2618333.html

> Our best position is to acknowledge the errors in Wikipedia that were
> identified by Nature, and to point out that we have worked to correct
> them.

that is actually being done:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Press/2006/03/22_Britanica_PR