[WikiEN-l] Brand Republic: BBC Radio 4 launches Wikipedia parod y

[David Gerard]

2009/7/23 kgnpaul at gmail.com <kgnpaul at gmail.com>:

> Parodies are compliments in my book.  Sarcasm to flattery and all that.  Look forward to a US available link.


It'll be on the iPlayer, so UK people can listen again later and
theoretically record it to put up somewhere.

The thing to remember is how ridiculously mainstream Wikipedia is
these days. When I first got involved, early 2004, it was #500 in the
world, and I was *really impressed* by that. Now it's top-10, utterly
mainstream and the other month I saw a poster in Kings Cross tube
advertising some exhibition with a tagline at the top of "It's the
Wikipedia of" (whatever it was). A term sufficiently well known to use
in Tube poster advertising. Didn't have my camera with me - wish I'd
gotten a photo.


- d.