[Wikimedia-l] O'Dwyer

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> >
> >
> > > It would be interesting to see the community develop its own high
> profile
> > > media contacts so this view can be communicated to the world!
> > >
> > >
> >
> > If Jimmy can write this in The Guardian (a paper which really seems to
> like
> > him a lot),
> >
> > ---o0o---
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> > Together, we won the battle against Sopa and Pipa. Together, we can win
> > this one too.
> >
> > ---o0o---
> >
> > and it ends up copied in newspapers around the world,
> >
> >
> >
> https://news.google.co.uk/news/story?q=%22Together,+we+won+the+battle+against+Sopa+and+Pipa.+Together,+we+can+win+this+one+too.%22&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf
> >
> .,cf.osb&biw=1066&bih=743&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dgWkAFmBLjQBsNMJyGJqPnbvsPpkM&sa=X&ei=xXTrT8rQHYqp8QO_hqXVBQ&ved=0CC0QqgIwAA
> >
> > attributed to the Wikipedia founder, then there really is no discernible
> > difference between his view and Wikipedia's, or Google's.
> >
> >
> Hi folks -  I'm a bit late to this thread, but I wanted to chime in. The
> Communications Committee list/group brought up the issue of some wildly
> inaccurate headlines on this story over the last 48hrs, and with their help
> and some outreach we've tried to get some corrections.
>
> The press is going to make a very logical, if occasionally wildly
> inaccurate, series of judgements on how to frame this whole topic/issue up.
> Headlines are commonly over-generalized to the point of being dead wrong -
> "Wikipedia backs Richard O'Dwyer petition" etc.
>
> The Wikimedia (chapter etc) folks who work with the press around the world
> are regularly doing everything possible to avoid the overly general
> summaries that come out in the media. We (and certainly WMF) are highly
> sensitive to incorrect facts, and generally the media actually appreciate
> it when we're able to reach out and get corrections. Wikimedians and
> readers of the stories who offer up comments/responses on stories - below
> the story - can help with this too. In some cases we have relationships
> with senior editors at outlets and can get things fixed quickly. In other
> cases timezones and publication timelines make this harder to resolve.
>
> I know how quickly a bad headline can spiral into more headlines and
> echoing of false information. We hold the news outlets who originate those
> stories and the ones that continue to repeat them accountable, and we ask
> them to get it right.
>
> Just wanted to let you know that there's almost always an effort underway
> to get corrections recorded. Jimmy is also very sensitive to these facts
> and frequently when he sees an issue in a story he was interviewed for he
> writes directly to the reporter for a fix.



Jay, what did Jimmy expect the press to report? None of you have been doing
this since yesterday. Jimmy's very petition is signed "Jimmy Wales,
Wikipedia founder".

http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard

This is Wikipedia's name that is being leveraged here, pure and simply. And
consciously so, deliberately, intentionally, knowingly.