[WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/4/26 James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com>:
> Well, in relative terms, anyway:
>
> http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/04/The_age_of_austerity_speech_to_the_2009_Spring_Forum.aspx
>
> http://tinyurl.com/dxdujw
>
> "Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to
> reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest
> websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280
> million people."
>
> Not sure if his figures are accurate, but it's intriguing.

The figures sound about right to me. They are in the right orders of
magnitude, at least.