[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia featured in German weekly magazine

[Ray Saintonge]

Delirium wrote:

> Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>> The other reason I see is that the German world wide web is a bunch 
>> of  crap, and everyone knows that we're one of the best things that 
>> have  happened to it in the last 5 years ;-)
>>   
>
> Perhaps this is one of the bigger differences... I've had trouble 
> convincing people that Wikipedia is all that useful, because they just 
> think "well, I could google for this", and chances are they'd get 
> something back, maybe even something good.  Now obviously we're better 
> than just googling for an answer, and every day we're getting even 
> better, but many English-speaking people are used to being able to 
> find answers to most of their questions online anyway through some 
> searching, and there is indeed a lot of stuff already out there, so it 
> takes some more convincing to show them that Wikipedia really *is* 
> different (and better) than what's already there.

What convinces them is when Googling produces a Wikipedia article. :-P   
That happens more and more frequently.

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