[WikiEN-l] A sudden thought on the media coverage of flagged revisions

[David Gerard]

2009/8/26 Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/26 Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>

>> We've had a story in the New York Times. Meanwhile, judging by the way
>> David Gerard and WMUK are dashing around, it's all over the UK media.
>> Is this just observer bias, or is "internal changes to Wikipedia" for
>> some reason a really interesting thing to the British press? I have no
>> idea...

> No, I also heard a discussion about it last night on the Toronto CBC Radio
> program "Here and Now" during their technology report.  They segued into the
> Wikipedia angle from a discussion on the challenges of anonymity online.


Yeah. It's difficult sometimes to get just how very mainstream
Wikipedia is. We are the big time. Normal people know what we are, at
least sort of.



> also pointed out that, in a few short years, Wikipedia has gone from the
> upstart nobody took seriously to an established reference source that was
> often the first stop for information.  He even called us the "new
> establishment".


The hard part is that people have no idea how it works. So stories
like this are an opportunity to explain ourselves to the world, which
is actually important.


- d.