[WikiEN-l] Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

[Charles Matthews]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/22 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
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>   
>> DG, lighten up on Noam Cohen a bit - he seems more disposed to be fair
>> to us than when I met him in Taipei in 2007, and seemed surprised that
>> any Wikipedians were actually, like, serious.  His point was factual
>> even if you may think it is misdirection.
>>     
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> I took it as a direct message of his employer's stance.
So we should be understanding ...
>  It's 100%
> indicative of the industry stance. Have you seen this *batshit insane*
> bullshit? (forwarded to me by Mike Peel):
>
> http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43823&c=1
>   
Interesting. They're attempting to raise money by circulating people 
saying "you should send us money". We should try that. Oh ...

Charles