2009/8/18 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: > Err ... it's Wikipedia's fault if hurried journalists today do nothing > but research on it and misinterpret what they find? Puh-lease. To get > from that to "It was formally launched on January 15 in 2001 by Ward > Cunningham and Richard Stallman" you need to do plenty of > miscomprehension exercises. Remember: hacks get _paid_ to do this work, > often quite large sums, and (in the UK) are supposed to spend time > learning the importance of getting the facts straight. Not > copying-and-pasting, and then mangling the sense. They have subeditors > who are _paid_ to do the mangling.
This is why I have no fear whatsoever of the Associated Press's plans to compete directly with Wikipedia. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
