Editing Encyclopedia:Press coverage 2004 (section)

=== February ===
*'''Information Outlook''' (Feb 2004). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288950059_eBooks_Rumors_of_our_death_are_greatly_exaggerated eBooks: rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated.]''.

* ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'', "[https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/themicrosoftkillers The Microsoft Killers]", pp. 54-58, Feburary 2004 edition; uses Wikipedia as an example of an open content project. "''Open source software has come of age, and open source working methods are spreading beyond computers.''"
* '''[http://www.feer.com/ Far Eastern Economic Review]''' issue dated February 19, 2004: Wikipedia:It's Wicked (registration required). Enthusiastic reportage, notes the 200,000th English article and the Asian languages Wikipedia is available in. (Also posted to Usenet at [http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Wikipedia+group:rec.arts.sf.fandom&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=2&as_miny=2004&as_maxd=13&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2004&selm=1076633702.2876snx%40aleytys.pc.my&rnum=1]) A pdf of the article can be found at [http://www.theproduct.com/6m105/readings/spring04/encyclopedia.pdf] which is the copy that was carried by the [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB107653380258227264 Wall Street Journal].
*'''[http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2537363 The Internet Column: WIKI REMARKS]''' from Scotsman.com (Also printed in the (Liverpool) Daily Post) has an article on [[Wiki]]s in general. Quote: "The best known [Wiki] is Wikipedia, an encyclopaedia written entirely using the wiki system. Anyone browsing through Wikipedia can edit any page; so if you know a lot about a specific subject, you can add your knowledge to that subject's page easily." February 16, 2004.
*British comedian [[Bill Bailey]] being interviewed by [[The Times]] (UK).  Quote: "8:00PM SURFING AND BLOGGING If I'm writing a show I spend a lot of time researching it on the net. I use Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) a lot. It's a brilliant online encyclopaedia, invaluable for historical stuff, and probably the most accurate of all those sites." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-8086-1008394,00.html] February 21, 2004.
*''[[The Guardian]]'', from an article about changing the world.  Quote: "EBay does something no other network has done: it treats the social network as the supply-chain and by building systems of communications and reputation management into the network, turns a group of individuals into an organised, structured and wildly economically viable marketplace. The same can be said at an emergent level about open-source knowledge projects such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia." [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/23/mondaymediasection11] February 23, 2004.
*[[m:German TV coverage of Wikipedia|An English translation of the transcript of Wikipedia as a news item in Germany]], includes a screenshot.  [[Wikipedia:Press coverage#German|See below]] for more details.  February 25, 2004.
*[[Kuro5hin]] is apparently the first news site to publish Wikipedia's 500,000 article press release. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040405064320/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/25/101848/859]
* February 29 - computerworld.co.nz in an article about wikis (about how cool they are) ("''Wicked (good) Wikis''") mentions Wikipedia as "the largest, and perhaps most ambitious, Wiki in the world ? attempting to capture encyclopedia entries on everything". [https://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/121608/wicked_good_wikis/] Also printed in [http://www.darwinmag.com Darwin Magazine] .