On 3 Oct 2012, at 12:12, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3 October 2012 11:15, Andrew Turvey <andrewrtur...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I though this was a largely accurate article without any major errors. Far
>> better than most media articles!
> 
> The main body of the article is very good. The summary at the top is
> simplified to the point of being inaccurate. The main article
> specifically talks about donations from Wikipedia visitors (which is
> an accurate description), while the summary just says "donations",
> which is obviously incorrect. The office have an excellent track
> record of getting these kinds of things fixed - it shouldn't take long
> to get them to add "from Wikipedia vistors" to the summary.

Of course, that still wouldn't be right - 'through banners on Wikipedia' would 
be more accurate. Getting media coverage 100% accurate is difficult (if only 
they used wikis…) - sometimes inaccuracies just have to be lived with, as 
grating as that is to any Wikimedian's soul. ;-)

Thanks,
Mike


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