Editing Encyclopedia:Press coverage 2004 (section)

=== November ===

* '''[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6298340/site/newsweek/ It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki]''', Newsweek, 1 November 2004. "Wales has registered the Wikipedia Foundation as a nonprofit in Florida. He has no full-time employees and no formal funding like venture capital, but this year he's raised $100,000 in small donations from Wikipedia's fans that will pay for the servers that host the site. He's also expanding into projects like the Wiktionary (a dictionary and thesaurus), Wikibooks (textbooks and manuals) and Wikiquote (quotations). The goal: to give "every single person free access to the sum of all human knowledge." To achieve that, he doesn't even have to send out stickers."

* '''[http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/LegalAffairs/2004/11/01/636321 Marxist-Lessigism]''', Legal Affairs, 1 November 2004. "Another example is the ''Wikipedia'', an open source, online encyclopedia that is entirely written, edited, and rewritten by anyone who cares to contribute to it. Even though there is no control structure&mdash;there are no editors, nor is there a publisher&mdash;it rivals commercial encyclopedias in scope and quality of coverage."

* '''[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-11-05-fifthofnovember_x.htm Today's best encyclopedia might surprise you]''', USA Today, 5 November 2004. "Few parents today would settle for something like that Compton's. They might look to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the World Book Encyclopedia, or Encarta &ndash; either in print on or on CD. But they're all posers compared to the Big Gun of the encyclopedia world &ndash; the one that boasts the titles of largest, fastest growing, and most up-to-date. That would be the Wikipedia."

* '''[http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118497,00.asp A Sneak Peek at Trillian 3.0]''', PCWorld, 5 November 2004. A preview of a new Trillian instant messaging application mentions that it will feature "integration with the Wikipedia online encyclopedia".

* '''[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,1344544,00.html All the news that's fit to blog]''', The Guardian, 6 November 2004. Book review of Dan Gillmor's ''We the Media''. "He tells us ... of wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where anyone can write or edit an article, which now has more than one million articles in more than 100 languages."

* '''[http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/08/Floridian/There_s_no_end_to_it.shtml There's no end to it]''', St Petersburg Times, 8 November 2004. Interview with local resident [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimmy Wales]], history of Wikipedia, range of articles, editing culture, reliability.

* '''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1346519,00.html Hunting with Firefox]''', [[The Guardian]], November 9, 2004.  A leader congratulating the whole open source movement on   [[Mozilla Firefox]]'s 1.0 release, it states that "Firefox deserves to succeed, but even if it does not it will have highlighted the astonishing success of open source, well known inside the web community but not outside. Among other services, it has its own operating system ([[Linux]]), an acclaimed alternative to [[Microsoft Office]] ([[OpenOffice.org]]), and its own encyclopedia (Wikipedia) with a million entries. The open source movement has become one of globalisation's unexpected treasures."

* '''[http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4045&o=2 I Must Take Issue With the Wikipedia Entry for "Weird Al" Yankovic]''', ''[[The Onion]]'', November 10, 2004.  A parodic op-ed piece by a fictional "banned Wikipedia editor" (for being overzealous on [[Talk:Admiral Ackbar]]), in which he complains about the inadequate length of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].

* '''[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/arts/10wiki.html Mudslinging Weasels Into Online History]''', [[The New York Times]], November 10, 2004. (Also picked up by CNet News.com [http://news.com.com/On+Wikipedia%2C+mudslinging+spatters+Bush/2100-1028_3-5446570.html] and the International Herald Tribune.) Takes a detailed look at the (still ongoing) shenanigans over Wikipedia's articles on [[George W. Bush]] and [[John Kerry]] and Wikipedians' attempts to keep the articles in compliance with the [[WP:NPOV|Neutral point-of-view]] policy.

* '''[http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p18s03-hfes.html Disambiguating George Romney]''', Christian Science Monitor, 12 November 2004. Essay wondering whether the [[George Romney (painter)|English painter]] is related to the [[George W. Romney|former Michigan governor]] notes finding Wikipedia's [[George Romney|disambiguation page]] through a Google search. "The point of the Wikipedia page was to separate out Web pages referring to the painterly Romney from those referring to the political Romneys - the assumption being that one would be interested in one or the other, not both."

* '''[http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041115-3.shtml OCLC and Yahoo! Offer Joint Toolbar]''', Information Today, 15 November 2004. Mentions Wikipedia as one of the partners in Yahoo!'s content acquisition program.

* '''[http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2536204,00.html Farther-reaching, faster ignorance thanks to Web]''', Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner, 15 November 2004. Director of Fairbanks library system writes: "Librarians abhor using reference sources that don't have established credibility editorial rigor, and while Wikipedia is an interesting social experiment and "includes information more often associated with almanacs, gazetteers and specialist magazines," it's too untrustworthy to be used as a secondary source."

* '''[http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html The Faith-Based Encyclopedia]''', Tech Central Station, 15 November 2004. Article critical about the quality of Wikipedia. The reviewer (a former editor-in-chief of [[Encyclopedia Britannica]]) illustrates his point with the article on [[Alexander Hamilton]]. "The user who visits Wikipedia [...] is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him." (Linked to from [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1319242 Slashdot])
**A response: '''[http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655&page=1 Digital Democratization: The Digital World and Its Rulers Are Undergoing Some Growing Pains]''', ABC News ''Silicon Insider'', 18 November 2004. "Could the Wikipedia do with more oversight on matters of accuracy? Absolutely; and it will only survive the test of the marketplace over time if it does so. But let's not forget, as McHenry seemed to, that the Wikipedia is also only three years old. It and the Web are only now groping their way toward new models of collaboration and valuation — models that I suspect will include greater peer review, Olympics-type grading systems that eliminate the highs and lows, and even, perhaps something like the King James Bible translators, small teams that police themselves for the highest levels of accuracy and quality."

* '''[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/stopthepresses_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000724065 How to Integrate Citizen Journalism Into Mainstream News Sites]''', Editor & Publisher, 19 November 2004. Journalism professor refers to the premise of having the audience determine site content as "the Wikipedia argument".

* '''[http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7360&ContextSubtypeID=13 Would You Trust Joe Isuzu's Blog?]''', EContentMag.com, 23 November 2004 (the time stamp is the 1 December! I've emailed them about this problem). Talks about how journalists should deal with websites and Wikipedia content and how the author believes that new ways of referencing information need to be developed due to sites like Wikipedia.

*'''[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65819,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Wikipedia Creators Move Into News]''', Wired.com, 29 November 2004. Describes Wikinews project and compares it to the existing Wikipedia. "After doing much in recent years to revolutionize the way an encyclopedia can be built and maintained, the team behind Wikipedia is attempting to apply its collaborative information-gathering model to journalism."

* '''[http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/11/22/1750202.shtml?tid=137 The open source wiki behind Wikipedia]''', NewsForge, November 30, 2004. Article on how to install [[MediaWiki]].

* '''The Wikipedia Wars''', School Librarian Journal, November 2004. subtitle: School librarian sparks fight over free online resource. "The ensuing conflict between techies and librarians and open content versus traditional resources underscores the challenges facing information specialists in the Digital Age, particularly those who work with young people."