Comments on: Woeful About Wales of Wikipedia’s Wrongful Wariness

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:35:56 +0000

Completely agree. EVERYONE has an agenda.

I’m posting here to 1. let you know that I completely agree with you and your rationale 2. to gain a little bit more indirect visibility for myself 3. karma – because I like when people comment on my blog

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:15:02 +0000

Ed, you are SO right. I blogged about this as well recently and got into an argument on the WikiProject Spam page, read all about it here and here. I can still get VERY angry about this issue as well.

By: Robert French

Robert French — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:26:57 +0000

Great article, Todd.

Thank you for your kind comments. I started writing a response, but it turned into a post.

Posting 400+ words in your blog seemed rude. I have a lot of feelings about Wikipedia, so I decided to express them.

So, I’ve posted about it in my blog. Thanks again.

By: Amanda Chapel

Amanda Chapel — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:14:05 +0000

While you folks were busy taking to yourself about “new” press releases and such, public relations became synonymous with spam on the net.

http://www.strumpette.com/archives/201-Has-Public-Relations-Become-Synonymous-with-Spam.html

- Amanda

By: Mike Driehorst

Mike Driehorst — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:38:23 +0000

Ed,
While we should be intelligent in our counsel, I’m not sure if fear of reprisal, or the possibility of being bullied should be given strong consideration in how we act.

Besides, maybe those who disagree with Wales and the Wikipedia community, should focus more on competitive sites like:
http://internet-encyclopedia.org
– Mike

By: Ed Lee

Ed Lee — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:43:38 +0000

good post, but…

as the people who steer our clients through the murky social media waters (ironic huh), we should make it clear to them the penalties they could incur by inflaming the wrath of the wikipedia community.

By: Mike Driehorst

Mike Driehorst — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:41:04 +0000

Todd,
Great post. I have a lot of problems with Wales’ and the Wiki community’s hypocrisy over not allowing PR firms to edit and/or create entries.

Wales’ opinion seems to state, in part, that he can’t trust the Wiki community to correct any errors or obviously biased entries.

As I noted in a post earlier about Wikipedia (see link):
“But, whether or not one is being paid, wouldn’t it be safe to assume that, for every new Wikipedia article created, the author has some interest in the topic?”

You would hope that anyone who creates an entry or edits one has an interest in the subject. Otherwise, the information would be questionable.
Mike

P.S. In the comments section of my post, Gregory Kohs of MyWikiBiz fame has some good details on Wales’ for-profit Wiki biz mixing with Wikipedia.