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

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 20:42:03 UTC 2009


2009/7/26 Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name>:

> The Wikipedia it's parodying seems to be an alternate-universe one
> which has ads, corporate sponsors, and intrusive offers to get its
> readers to purchase enhanced access levels.


I felt that was a minor detail for dramatic license. They did after
all give it a different name ... that stuff seemed to me to parody
Internet sites in general and the joy of browsing on a censored
connection.


- d.



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