[Foundation-l] Are we useful yet?
Milos Rancic
millosh at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 10:53:19 UTC 2008
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/9 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/9/8 Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com>:
>
>>> Presumably the foundations and corporate funders know how to evaluate
>>> us, whether it is on some statistical basis, on some good-intentions
>>> test, on a feel-good basis, or based on how it contributes to their
>>> own objectives.
>
>> Wikipedia is popular, useful and people like it lots. It's unreliable
>> but has a lot of good will - when the WikiScanner hit the news, the
>> media and public were outraged at the organisations POV-pushing on
>> Wikipedia, not at us.
>
>
> To clarify: "You do Wikipedia? Excellent! Are you halfway competent?
> Excellent! Have some money! My name in the press release? Excellent!
> Thank you!"
>
> It's a start :-)
Actually, yes, I forgot [to mention] that we are at the top and that
it is hard to be higher :)
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