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

[Erik Moeller]

On 3/11/07, 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.

Not to mention that "free content", to most people, means exactly
that: "free content." That is: "Hey, I can download it for free from
the Interweb." I have seen  very few articles about Wikipedia which
get the licensing part right. That said, that's one of those things
you have to hammer into a person's head about 10 times before they
understand it.

Maybe I need to create [[WP:100T]] which repeats {{:WP:10T}} 10 times ...
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Peace & Love,
Erik

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