Editing Encyclopedia:Press coverage 2004 (section)

=== May ===
*'''[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4815771/ Grass-roots guide to everything]''', ''Newsweek'' and ''Newsweek Society'', May 3, 2004. "Here's an encyclopedia that evokes a variation on the famous Groucho line: would you get your information from a reference work that accepts you as an author?"

*'''[http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=3808 Build an Encyclopedia: Everybody is Invited]''', YaleGlobal Online, May 5, 2004. "Wikipedia - the largest example of these collaborative efforts - is a functioning, user-contributed online encyclopedia that has become a popular and highly regarded reference in just three years of existence."
** '''[http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20040508.F01&irec=1 Anyone may contribute to E-encyclopedia]''', ''Jakarta Post (Indonesia)'', May 8, 2004. ''Syndicated version of above Yale Global article''.
** '''Wikipedia builds 'free market of knowledge' ''', ''The Standard (Hong Kong)'', May 10, 2004. ''Syndicated version of above Yale Global article''.

*'''[http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/story17.html Participatory Journalism: The Essence of Wikipedia]''', International Symposium on Online Journalism (from the University of Texas), May, 2004. "Wiki wiki -- Hawaiian for "quick" -- is at the root of Wikipedia, a encyclopedia website where any page can be edited by users with the simple click of an "edit this page" button." There is also a PDF of a paper from that Symposium by Andrew Lih, of Hong Kong University: [http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/wikipedia.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050209212638/http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/wikipedia.pdf |date=February 9, 2005 }}

* Wikipedia has '''[http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html#community won a Webby award]''' in the "Community" category. Related coverage links: [http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/12/2221254.shtml?tid=126&tid=95 Slashdot], [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3707313.stm BBC], [http://macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8671 Macworld UK], [http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=21170833&brk=1 Investors.com] [http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=57424 PC Pro]

*'''[http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040514.wfrank15/BNStory/Entertainment FrankenArt: The mix and mash future]''', ''The Globe and Mail'', May 15, 2004. "Wikipedia is a so-called "open content" on-line encyclopedia where visitors can contribute content to the articles, albeit at the discretion of editors."

* The [[Australia]]n [[technology]] magazine ''[[Australian Personal Computer]]'' have listed Wikipedia.com [''sic''] as their chosen site of the month in their Workship section (page 119, June 2004 edition - released in May)

*'''[http://www.computerworld.com.au/pp.php?id=854351844&pp=1&fp=16&fpid=0 Chinese Internet users work to make knowledge free]''', IDG News Service, May 17, 2004. "Chinese Wikipedia ([http://zh.wikipedia.org/ http://zh.wikipedia.org]) is a Chinese-language offshoot of Wikipedia, an online English-language encyclopedia that is also available in a host of other languages."

*'''[http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/life/2004/05/18janitorshelpkee.html 'Janitors' help keep Wikipedia reliable]'''. The News Journal, May 18, 2004. "If the concept is idealistic, then it also is a bit mad: a bottomless, evolving database of human knowledge, with articles mundane and profound, which anyone with an Internet connection has access to create and edit. That's the notion behind Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)..."

* '''"Hit the web as you hit the books: A roundup of reference sites for swamped students"''' (St. John's Telegram (Newfoundland), May 21, 2004 - article not online) recommends "www.wikipedia.com" (''sic''): "Wikipedia -- which I hope to write about in detail in an upcoming column -- is an open-ended encyclopedia that is constantly being revised and amended by readers, but which is addictive for surfers."

*'''[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_22/b3885044.htm Out-Googling The Top Search Engine: Online encyclopedias yield more specialized results]'''. BusinessWeek Online, May 31, 2004. "WIKIPEDIA IS ONE of the more remarkable projects on the Web. The online encyclopedia (www.wikipedia.com) is the work of 6,000-odd volunteers covering a huge range of subjects, even though it does better on science and technology than on arts and culture." Even though it incorrectly states, "If you find an error, you are welcome to suggest a correction. And if you find a topic that isn't covered, you are welcome to create a new article. (An editorial group decides which corrections and contributions merit posting.)"

*'''[http://www.dailykos.com/ Daily Kos]''', one of the largest political blogs, cites us favorably, saying:
::"Ahh, this is a cool day in dKos history -- a team of Kosmopolitans has put together the dKosopedia -- a Daily Kos wiki.
::I can almost hear you all thinking, "what the heck is a wiki?" It's a collaborative website that will allow this community to build a political encyclopedia (from a liberal standpoint, of course). In short, anyone will be able to contribute encyclopedia entries on a variety of political subjects.
::The best example of a wiki is the Wikipedia, which is an open source, collaborative encyclopedia with over 274,000 entries, all of them community submitted.
::We hope the dKosopedia will become the progressive-political version of the Wikipedia."