[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[Gary Kirk]

I was reading the programme for a theatre show once and as I'd been
reading our entry for one of the performers an hour or so before I
instantly recognised the text of their profile in it :).

On 8/17/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> It worries me a little that I can spot Wikipedia text a mile off - our
> house style isn't that obvious, is it? - but it seems to be one of
> those little skills you pick up after a while. Very useful for marking
> school essays, I'm sure.
>
> Anyhow, I was packing up some boxes today, and happened across the box
> for the Nokia 770 (a really useful little bit of kit, incidentally),
> which shows someone merrily using the device to chatter away to a
> friend on an instant messenger. For some reason, the friend is writing
> something to them about poetry.
>
> I looked at the sentence. Something went click.
>
> "Kim: A poem is a composition usually written in verse. Poems rely
> heavily on imagery, precise word choice, and metaphor, may be written
> in measures consisting of" [...]
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Literature&oldid=3562677
>
> I'm used to seeing our content reused all over the place, but somehow
> I didn't expect to see fragments used as lorem-ipsum filler on a box
> cover...
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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-- 
Gary Kirk