[WikiEN-l] [Wikimediauk-l] BBC Newsnight tonight! re: flagged revs

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/26 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> Kevin is someone who Knows His Shit about the Internet. Basically we
> sat there agreeing on everything. Kirsty Wark was somewhat surprised
> to have two guests furiously agree ;-)

I'd been wondering who else they would have on. They usually like to
have both sides of an issue represented, but really the two sides here
are the media and people that know what is actually going on. They
ended up getting someone from the media that knew what was going on!
Probably not what they were actually aiming for, but it was inevitable
that that is what they would get.

> I really couldn't fault anything he was saying. In the context of that
> *horrible* intro it didn't sound great, but he basically really does
> get it. He spoke of the "elites" a lot (meaning the top editors),
> which is technically correct but will fuel the conspiracy
> theorists.(The connotations of the word as "pretentious" or
> "oppressors". I'd *hope* the hours-a-day editors don't act like
> pretentious oppressors ...)  Oh well.

Yes, I thought everything he said was broadly accurate and fair.
Unfortunately, he was forced into saying it in response to leading
questions that meant it ended up with a slant on it that I don't think
he intended.

> And I got to call my fellow Wikipedians "encyclopedia nerds" on
> national television ;-p

I prefer "geek" myself, but I'll forgive you!