Editing Encyclopedia:Press coverage 2004 (section)

=== September ===

* '''[http://www.hindu.com/biz/2004/09/06/stories/2004090601011700.htm Collaborative projects galore]''', [[The Hindu]], September 5, 2004, Compare Wikipedia to Javapedia: "The project, which has been created along the lines of the famous free on-line encyclopedia project Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/), hosts lots of materials on Java."

*'''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3624384.stm From Aaan to ZZ Top]''' [[BBC]] online news pages, September 6, 2004. BBC News Dot.Life article entitled : ''"From Aaan to ZZ Top: An online enclyopaedia which can be edited by all and sundry aims to make finding information on the web easier, and more fun"''. By Jo Twist and BBC News Online science and technology staff. The BBC headlined this article on their main News page and on their Science/nature and Technology pages. 

*'''[http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2004/09/07/rachel_show/iq_3064453.txt Scouring the Web for political facts]''', The Journal Times (Racine, WI), September 7, 2004. "Up until last Saturday, a search for "fascism" on Wikipedia, a widely used and otherwise reputable online encyclopedia, resulted in a page about George W. Bush (a comment about which you can read at <nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fascism)</nowiki>." ''(Actually a vandal had redirected the article to [[George W. Bush]] on Friday [[3 September]]. It was reverted after 57 minutes.)''

*'''[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/ Wikipedia 'to make universities obsolete']''', The Register, September 7, 2004. Taking its cue from blog comments about Wikipedia, the author describes Wikipedia as "the Khmer Rouge in diapers" and gives a tongue-in-cheek look at Wikipedia replacing traditional universities. 

*'''[http://www.newsobserver.com/business/technology/gilster/story/1614317p-7823919c.html Wiki meeting of minds]''' [http://www.newsobserver.com/24hour/ The News & Observer] (Raleigh, NC) online news pages, September 8, 2004.  An article by Paul Gilster, on the front page of the "Connect" section, introduces readers to the Wiki concept, and Wikipedia in particular, with a balanced synopsis. "The Wikipedia reminds us that comparing sources and double-checking facts with other references is sound policy no matter how the text was put together. Taken with caution, it can be a useful and surprisingly resilient tool."

*'''[http://ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1094678265.php Collaborative Conundrum: Do Wikis Have a Place in the Newsroom?]''', USC Online Journalism Review, September 8, 2004. Article abstract: "Wikipedia has more than 340,000 articles, written by a sprawling online community. Researchers are testing its veracity, while plans proceed for fact-checking it formally. Can journalists trust Wikipedia, and can collaboration software such as wikis improve newsgathering?"

*'''[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5430-2004Sep8.html Spreading Knowledge, The Wiki Way]''', Washington Post, September 9, 2004, by Leslie Walker. Compares and contrasts Wikipedia with Encyclopedia Britannica. "The free Wikipedia also features a publicly authored current-events page recapping the day's top news, and it is rapidly expanding into other languages -- more than 10,000 articles have been created in each of roughly a dozen languages besides English." Reprinted in [[The Straits Times]], Singapore [http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,272109,00.html], [[The Austin-American Statesman]], Austin, Texas [http://www.statesman.com/money/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/business_14243a44a206b1a40041.html]

*'''[http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0909/p06s01-woap.html Internet prods Asia to open up]''', Christian Science Monitor, September 9, 2004. "China's massive firewall is already showing cracks under the weight of the Internet's expansion. The pressure has come from innumerable sources, including an onslaught of weblogs, open-source directories, and projects like Wikipedia, an "open-content" encyclopedia."

*'''[http://www.iht.com/articles/538271.html Recognizing art in virtual worlds]''', International Herald Tribune, September 11, 2004. Article about the upcoming Ars Electronica festival focusing on the new ''Digital Communities'' award won by Wikipedia, but incorrectly identifies Howard Rheingold as Wikipedia's founder. "As for Wikipedia, its community aspect lies both above and below its surface. A quick visit to Wikipedia reveals only its encyclopedia articles. But alongside each of them lie discussions that help shape the content while bringing together both the readers and the writers of the articles, a distinction that is obviated by the project's design in the first place."

*'''[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1302435,00.html Wiki's wacky, but it really does work ]''', Observer, September 12, 2004. Very enthusiastic with comparisons with Britannica and CIA Factbook. "Yet here is something that is entirely malleable - whose entries can be changed by any Tom, Dick or Harry. How could it possibly be any good? Yet it is. I use Wikipedia regularly, and it's often very good indeed. I've just compared its entry on Iraq with that in the CIA Factbook (possibly the only unambiguously useful service ever provided by that agency). The entries are comparable in their scope and coverage: the CIA publication is better on statistics; Wikipedia is better on history and culture. The other day I looked up 'TCP/IP' (the core protocols of the internet) on Wikipedia and Britannica Online. The Wikipedia entry was much more comprehensive."
*:''Wikipedian's note: The Wikipedia's country articles have used the CIA world factbook as a source.  Some have now been improved beyond recognition, others are little changed.'' --[[User:Robert Merkel|Robert Merkel]] 08:42, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
*:''It should also be noted that The Observer makes a serious error by stating that all of Wikipedia's content is in the [[public domain]]. Most of Wikipedia's content is under the [[GFDL]]; portions are distributed under various other licenses and circumstances, including the public domain.''

*'''[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/15/emergent_people_fail_to_impress/ Wikipedia's Emergent People fail to impress readers]''', The Register, September 15, 2004. Comments on letters from readers reacting to The Register's earlier articles about Wikipedia.

*'''[http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1308105,00.html Meet Mr Rights]''', [[The Guardian]], 20 September 2004. "[[Lawrence Lessig]] first became interested in the public value of the internet when he noticed that, by letting anybody plug a computer into the ends of the network and instantly serve up their own opinions and media tools to the world, the net was fostering a new and expansive intellectual commons. This commons was producing rapid innovations, grassroots tools such as [[faxyourmp.com]], ambitious collaborative endeavours such as '''wikipedia.org''', Alexandrian archive projects like [[archive.org]] and the many blogs which are starting to change our ideas about the independent press." 

*'''[http://www2.townonline.com/wakefield/opinion/view.bg?articleid=88940 When the printed page beats the Internet]''', Wakefield (MA) Observer, 23 September 2004. Editorial written by librarian recommends that people keep printed reference works at home (almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, etc.) ''except for'' encyclopedias, for which CD-ROM or online versions are preferable. "Also online are several free encyclopedias, including Britannica, which offers free access to their concise version, and Wikipedia, an open-content encyclopedia that's been getting a lot of attention lately for its open, contributor-based approach."

*'''[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1096108061747&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630 Trivia: It's 'who we are']''', Toronto Star, 26 September 2004. Quotes a pop-culture critic on sources for information about trivia: "But if (your information) is coming from Wikipedia (an Internet encyclopedia where people post their own articles), where everything is evolving, some of that information is good and some of that is misinformation."

*'''[http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10046 Vandals at the wiki]''', ADT Magazine, 28 September 2004. Article about anti-Microsoft vandalism at the newly announced FlexWiki. Starts with a brief overview of the wiki concept: "Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia, has over 350,000 pages as I write this."

*'''[http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/94998/1/ Journalism Third Most Dangerous Career in China]''', OneWorld.net, 29 September 2004. "On September 23, the authorities blocked access to the Chinese version of the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia that relies on contributions from Internet-users and carries a number of articles about human rights abuses in China. The site has been blocked on several previous occasions too."

*'''[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/30/iwan2go_mobile_framework/ Free info for London visitors]''', The Register, 30 September 2004. "So the most useful thing the Wikipedia project could do is not write another adoring 20,000 word article on our good friend Joi Ito (the spiritual leader), or 'memes', but nail down a simple lightweight framework that librarians, schools, churches and small businesses could use as an annotation and broadcast channel."

*'''[http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/stories/index.cfm?key=286 Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web]''', Digital Divide Network, 30 September 2004. Quote from Tim Berners-Lee giving the keynote address at an MIT conference: "The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia" (which he earlier referred to as "The Font of All Knowledge").

*'''[http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/9797685.htm?1c Vivisimo receives another makeover]''', San Jose Mercury News, 30 September 2004. Article about Vivisimo's metasearch site Clusty.com. "Clusty is also one of the first search sites to index and display results from the sometimes controversial Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia being compiled from contributions by Internet users." Not sure what the basis for this statement is, as Wikipedia has been available through Google and Yahoo! searches for a long time.

==== 1,000,000 Articles ====
Coverage resulting from Wikipedia's [[m:Wikimedia press releases/One million Wikipedia articles (int'l)|1,000,000-article press release]]:
* '''[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18576 Wikipedia reaches one million articles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041009171907/http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18576 |date=October 9, 2004 }}''', The Inquirer, September 20, 2004. "We happen to like it because it saves us time and it mentions [[The Inquirer|us]], and our glorious leader [[Mike Magee (journalist)|Mike Mageek]] with latest [cough] picture."
* '''[http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=58275 Wikipedia hits one million]''', Web User, September 20, 2004. "Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia, now has more than a million articles in its database, which web users can access for free."
* '''[http://www.dvhardware.net/article3149.html Online encyclopedia Wikipedia reaches milestone: 1 million articles]''', DV Hardware, Netherlands, September 20, 2004. "Wikipedia's rate of growth has continued to increase in recent months, and at its current pace Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring."
* '''[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/0027241 Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark]''', Slashdot, September 21, 2004. "The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia."
* '''[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/9/19/212133/644 The Little Website that Couldn't]''', [http://www.kuro5hin.org Kuro5hin.org], September 21, 2004. Notes million-article milestone and discusses how Wikipedia defies conventional wisdom. "According to the canon of academic orthodoxy, Wikipedia has no right to be as well written, professional, and accurate as it is. Not to say it is perfect, it isn't, but the vast majority of the articles are well written and many are comparable or better than their encyclopedia Britannica equivalents. This from a website where any person can write or change any article at any time, with no one paid to do quality control and no real punishments to those who vandalize the system other than being banned from the site itself."
* '''[http://p2pnet.net/story/2498 Wikipedia's millionth article]''', p2pnet.net, September 21, 2004. "'Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your help.' No chance, not with Corporate Greed in full bloom. But it's a noble ambition and it's expressed by the Wiki Foundation which yesterday announced the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia, its free, open-content, online encyclopedia project."
* '''[http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0439/koerner.php At Your Service Pack]''', The Village Voice, 23 September 2004. Note at the end of the ''TechLove With Mr. Roboto'' column: "Congrats to Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), the world's largest encyclopedia, for garnering its millionth entry. It's an all-volunteer affair, you realize, and they don't accept ads, either. Won't you be a saint and kick them over a few bucks during their pledge drive? Visit wikimediafoundation.org for the details; pledge enforcement vans are standing by to shake you by the ankles."
* '''[http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040926/sharing_knowledge_online_3.html 'Wikis' Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online]''', [[Associated Press]], 26 September 2004. "Wikipedia is unique for an encyclopedia because anybody can add, edit and even erase. And the Wikipedia is just one &mdash; albeit the best known &mdash; of a growing breed of Internet knowledge-sharing communities called Wikis"; "Try finding that in the Britannica"; "This month, it surpassed 1 million articles, including 350,000 in English — three times that of the online Encyclopedia Britannica. More than 25,000 people have written or edited at least 10 articles each."
**This wire story was reprinted in [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Sharing-Knowledge-Online.html The New York Times] and [http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Taran+Rampersad+didn%27t+complain+when+he+failed+to+find+anything+on+his+hometown+in+the+online+encyclopedia+Wikipedia%22&scoring=d many other news sites].
* '''[http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=Insight-Online&o=138404&sa=106 Wikipedia gets a million entries]''', Mail & Guardian, 30 September 2004. "Regardless of whether you think it is a credible source or not, the Wikipedia, and other projects like it, give a voice to many people who would not have been able to contribute their own knowledge to the creation of an encyclopedia."
* '''[http://www.thetriangle.org/news/2004/10/01/SciTech/No.More.Paper-738960.shtml No more paper: Wikipedia, evolving open-source online encyclopedia, reaches one million hits]''', The Triangle ([[Drexel University]] student newspaper), 1 October 2004. "Wikipedia is the modern day encyclopedia, updated almost as quickly and as often as news happens. Gone are the days of sifting through massive volumes of encyclopedias to find the one piece of information you need. Now it's all on the web in one accurate, constantly expanding database."