Michael Peel wrote: > I've just spoken to Rory by phone, and managed to touch on a number > of different topics with him - including the Usability Initiative, > the bookshelf project, Britain Loves Wikipedia and other local > events, etc. There were lots of issues that I didn't cover (different > language versions, strategy, different viewpoints on the > numbers, ...), so I would encourage others to also get in touch with > him. > > I'm generally uneasy about talking about these particular numbers, as > it isn't yet clear to me either how accurate they are or what exactly > they mean. As a scientist, I'm very hesitant to talk about results as > if they're black and white, as they rarely are - unfortunately that's > how the media like doing things, hence the stories that are coming > out about how wikipedia is dying - again. Odd how it never actually > seems to die... > > For information, I spoke briefly to the author of the article from > the Times on Monday, but referred him to Jay at the WMF as I didn't > real comfortable talking about the numbers. Unfortunately, Jay's in > Tokyo for the japanese wikiconference this week, hence wasn't able to > respond to the Times before they ran their story. > > I've had no other calls/emails from any other media organizations > about this story. > > Mike > > On 25 Nov 2009, at 11:33, Steve Bowbrick wrote: >
"Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages" By JULIA ANGWIN and GEOFFREY A. FOWLER Work by Felipe Ortega.... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125893981183759969.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Gordo _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
