[WikiEN-l] 10 Things You Did Not Know About Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 11/03/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/11/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:

> > This may be a matter of judgment and who the target audience is, but in
> > my experience #1 and #2 aren't really things people don't know about
> > Wikipedia.  People get lots of things wrong about us, but that Wikipedia
> > is a free-content encyclopedia run by a non-profit organization is
> > usually gotten right.

> I've seen rather a lot of "will google buy wikipedia?" blogs and forum threads.


Yes. And the media *don't* understand it's all written by volunteers.
I use the phrase "It's a volunteer-driven nonprofit charity. There's
about ten staff who run the office and the web servers. But almost all
of it's volunteers all the way down." This actually has to be said!


- d.