[WikiEN-l] Times article, and BBC and Press Association followups

[David Gerard]

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1637535.ece

I spoke to the BBC and the Press Association on the phone. The BBC
wanted a telly piece. So I went to the Borders in Oxford Circus, and
Borders kindly let the BBC film there. The interview, Rory
Callan-Jones, asked me the same question about reliability three or
four times until I got it down to a soundbite :-)

They filmed a few walking-around bits in the reference section. Oddly
enough, Borders don't sell printed encyclopedias any more. So we
decided the Oxford dictionaries would be suitable (I mentioned how the
OED used a model like ours starting 150 years ago - volunteer
contributions).

This should be on BBC1 six o'clock news this evening. Probably a
seven- to ten-second clip of me. That took an hour to make. Maybe I
might actually not end up cut this time ;-)


- d.