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Coverage of Wikipedia in the press, blogs, and elsewhere.

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• CNN.com - Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site

  http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/03/wikipedia/
  Short article describing one individual's experiences.

• First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia

  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/
  Journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli. Explains the success of Wikipedia thanks to a solution to the problem of the submission of undesirable pieces of information.

• Frozen North: How Authoritative is Wikipedia?

  http://www.frozennorth.org/C2011481421/E652809545/index.html
  Weblog entry. Describes the author's process of putting errors into Wikipedia and watching for corrections to them. Suggests how fact-checking needs to be improved at Wikipedia, and gives ideas for further experiments.

• Guardian Unlimited - Wikipedia's success

  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/oct/26/g2.onlinesupplement
  Summary primarily of the positive aspects and milestones of the online encyclopedia.

• ITworld.com - Chinese censors block access to Wikipedia

  http://www.itworld.com/040614wikipedia
  Chinese censors have blocked access to Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information.

• Salon.com - Everyone is an editor

  http://www.salon.com/2004/04/27/wikipedia_3/
  Attempts to examine the pros and cons of Wikipedia. Plus, comparisons to previous similar projects.

• Slashdot: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds

  http://slashdot.org/story/04/07/28/1351230/Wikipedia-Founder-Jimmy-Wales-Responds
  Wikipedia founder responds to a dozen highly moderated questions.

• Slashdot: Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark

  http://slashdot.org/story/04/09/21/0027241/Wikipedia-Hits-Million-Entry-Mark
  Lovely forum discussion.

• Sourcewatch: Wikipedia

  http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia
  Provides a critical review of Wikipedia.

• TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia

  http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2004/11/the-faith-based-encyclopedia.html
  Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica, wonders about the Wikipedian assumptions that writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive and that articles will eventually reach a very high degree of accuracy.

• The Register - Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/wiki_fiddlers_big_book/
  Commentary by Andrew Orlowski. "Our jibe that the Wikipedia is the world's most useless encyclopedia drew precisely two angry responses. But both illustrate the condition perfectly."

• The Register: Wikipedia 'to Make Universities Obsolete'

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/
  Opinion article by Andrew Orlowski suggesting that Wikipedia has a long way to go before it's a stand-in for libraries and scholarly publications.

• The Register: Wikipedia's Emergent People Fail to Impress Readers

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/15/emergent_people_fail_to_impress/
  Criticisms of Wikipedia and of arguments used by its admirers in an article by Andrew Orlowski.

• USA Today: Today's Best Encyclopedia Might Surprise You

  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-11-05-fifthofnovember_x.htm
  Overview of Wikipedia's growth, quality, and editing process.

• Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources?

  http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/2004/papers/wikipedia.pdf
  Studies the growth of Wikipedia and analyzes the technologies and policies that made it prosper.

• Wikipedia Boycott Campaign

  http://bluwiki.com/go/BoycottWikipedia
  Criticism and Boycott Campaign towards Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Review

  http://wikipediareview.com/
  Forum dedicated to criticism of Wikipedia, along with editorials from the moderators.

• Wikipediocracy

  http://wikipediocracy.com/
  A critical review site examining Wikipedia's flaws and follies. Blog and forum.

• Wikizine

  http://wikizine.blogspot.com/
  News bulletin on Wikimedia Foundation's projects by a steward and old-timer editor. [English, Español, Deutsch, Indonesia]

 

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