2009/11/27 Durova <nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com>: > It's hard to understand the conjecture that Wikipedia ties in with those > plans. If anything, Wikipedia's habit of referencing historic news articles > would help Mr. Murdoch's bottom line because it sends traffic to old > articles, which can generate advertising revenue from old news that would > otherwise be valueless.
Dunno about Murdoch, but the NYT was making similar noises about Google and in fact claimed that Wikipedia was ripping them off by referencing their articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/technology/internet/22wiki.html "So, in essence, many Wikipedia articles are another way that the work of news publications is quickly condensed and reused without compensation." This is more than a little rich considering Wikipedia is the number-one universal backgrounder for working journalists. A number of us shouted WHAT ON EARTH rather loudly: http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/technology/internet/22wiki.html - but we've yet to hear a peep from Noam Cohen explaining just precisely what the hell he was playing at. I urge the next person he calls to question him closely on this one. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
