[WikiEN-l] BBC blog on WSJ study

Bod Notbod bodnotbod at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 17:38:55 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> And the *most* newsworthy stuff makes it into Wikipedia. As a reader
>> of Wikipedia I think it's absolutely great. As an editor I'm
>> astonished at what fellow editors accomplish with topics. But if I put
>> myself in the shoes of journalists and newspaper owners I would be
>> thinking there's something unfair going on.
>
>
> Maurice Jarre was unavailable for comment.

I recognise the name but I'm not entirely sure what part of my chain
you're yanking. What was that story again?

As I say, I love Wikipedia, but putting on media boots I can see us as
a problem.



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