[Wikipedia-l] Nice article in The Guardian

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Thu Jan 30 17:51:30 UTC 2003


Is there a URL for this?

The Cunctator wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:05, Gareth Owen wrote:
> > Perusing my paper over lunch, I spotted a nice write up of the project in
> > todays Guardian.
> > 
> > Highlights :
> > "perhaps one of the greatest testaments to the generosity on the web"
> > "What makes the Wikipedia so compelling - and this article so hard to finish -
> >  is the way everything is so massively linked. You read one entry, and before
> >  you know it, you're reading up on Anne Boleyn or Italian greyhounds."
> > 
> Not bad for the press, even though they got the URL wrong, credited
> Sanger with the creation of Wiktionary, and utterly mangled the
> definition of WikiWiki.
> 
> 
> 
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