Editing Encyclopedia:Press coverage 2004 (section)

=== July ===
*'''[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/07/0740232&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=188&tid=95 Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles]''' slashdot.org, July 7, 2004. "The English Wikipedia has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica's 55 million words across 85,000 articles." 
**Note - I submitted this. [[User:Raul654|→Raul654]] 18:39, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC) 

* '''[http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/07/12/one_great_source____if_you_can_trust_it/ One great source -- if you can trust it]''' Boston Globe, July 12, 2004 (Boston.com). "The world's biggest encyclopedia resides on the Internet, and anyone can use it for free. It's called Wikipedia."

* '''[http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/181656_msftnotebook12.html?source=rss Microsoft Notebook: Encyclopedia editor finds his 'Holy Grail' with Encarta]''' seattlepi.com, July 12, 2004. "The Web itself is another source of competition. With free online information sources becoming more pervasive and comprehensive, Encarta could face an increasingly tougher task in appealing to consumers. One competitor is Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia with articles and information compiled by volunteer contributors."

* '''[http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=87D7CF64-ACF7-40F7-8CBF67F74E5081CE 'Open-Content' Web Encyclopedia Encourages User Interactivity]''' [[Voice of America]], July 15, 2004. "Encyclopedias have been around in one form or another for thousands of years. But in recent years competitors have emerged to challenge the traditional printed encyclopedia. First there were versions on compact disks and now they're online. While there may be lots of encyclopedias on the Internet, perhaps one of the most unusual is Wikipedia."

* '''How the South African revolution destroyed its children''' The Sunday Times Culture magazine (London), July 18, 2004. Footer: "Read on..." websites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid Good entry on interactive encyclopedia.

* '''[http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy20.html Web encyclopedia lets readers cut through to basics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050904211456/http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy20.html |date=September 4, 2005 }}''' Chicago Sun-Times, July 20, 2004. "Fortunately, the same community (i.e., humans) that ruined the Web is revolutionizing the encyclopedia, with the development of a free, community-based, ever-evolving reference work called the Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)."  Specifically mentions the [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] article and how the writer contributed to it. 

* '''[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7947-1187423,00.html Wikipedia]''' The Times (London), July 20, 2004. "If you still have any old Britannicas clogging your bookshelves, it is time finally to haul them off to Oxfam. Wikipedia, the world's fastest-growing English-language encyclopedia, has just published its 300,000th lucid entry, eclipsing Britannica by a factor of three. It is a scholarly, thorough work of reference that costs nothing to consult apart from an internet connection. Best of all, entries are endlessly updated to keep them relevant, errors are gladly corrected within minutes, and - unlike its stuffier predecessors - it respects the specialist knowledge of you, its user."

*'''[http://www.slate.com/id/2104087/ Art Mobs: Can an online crowd create a poem, a novel, or a painting?]''' Slate.com, July 22, 2004. "Mobs have been getting unusually good press these days. . . Now there's evidence they may even be creative. A few weeks ago, Wikipedia&mdash;an "open content" encyclopedia where anybody can write or edit an entry&mdash;produced its 300,000th article. At 90.1 million words, Wikipedia is larger than any other English-language encyclopedia, including the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which has only 85,000 articles and 55 million words." 

*'''[http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/memo/2695812 Wiki watch. Pi day. Revolution rock.]''' Houston Chronicle, July 22, 2004. "Protest is in the air today, but why not ease into it? Life's too short, and so am I. Besides, I just, very belatedly, encountered the concept of wiki. As opposed to tiki, there are no palms or torches associated with wiki. Wiki involves open, free-form, anarchistic editing of Web sites etc. And here I've used online Wikipedia dozens of times without thinking about what the name might mean. Here's an insanely wonderful story about creation by "mobs." "

*'''[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FG22Ad04.html A blogger's tale: The Stainless Steel Mouse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040923080205/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FG22Ad04.html |date=September 23, 2004 }}''' Asia Times Online, July 22, 2004. Article about blogging in China also mentions Wikipedia ("The Internet is also supporting an informal group of Chinese volunteers at work building an impressive online encyclopedia called Chinese Wikipedia to create a free source of information for Chinese Internet users.") and discusses the blocking of Wikipedia in China in June.

* '''Surfing the Net with kids''' Boston Globe, July 23, 2004 (not online). Recommends Wikipedia's [[Ronald Reagan]] article, citing it as a good educational resource: "I like this detailed, illustrated Reagan biography from Wikipedia because the hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles make it easy to learn more about Reaganomics, the Cold War, the Strategic Defense Initiative (dubbed "Star Wars" by opponents), and other related topics. Wikipedia is an open-content project with encyclopedia articles contributed and edited by anyone who wants to. As part of this group editorial process, at least one reader disputed the neutrality of this Reagan biography. What do you think? Does this Wikipedia article show an obvious bias?" 

* '''[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/wiki_fiddlers_big_book/ Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book]''' The Register, July 23, 2004. "Wiki-fiddlers* may be accused of many things, but having a robust sense of humor is not one of them. In the week that colleague Ashlee Vance pointed out a few failings in the archive that isn't an archive, we took a pop at the encyclopedia that isn't an encyclopedia. Our jibe that the Wikipedia is the world's most useless encyclopedia drew precisely two angry responses. But both illustrate the condition perfectly." -- ''features two angry letters from [[Wikipedia:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]]s''.

*'''[http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087374027304 Web of words challenges traditional encyclopedias]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}''' Financial Times, July 28, 2004. "If you thought open source was only about software, think again. The English-language version of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia produced by a worldwide community of volunteers, has reached 300,000 articles - three times as many as the Encyclopedia Britannica."

*'''[http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/07/28/1351230.shtml?tid=146&tid=95&tid=11 Slashdot interview with Jimbo], July 28, 2004.

* '''Wiki May Alter How Employees Work Together''' ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', July 29, 2004, p. B1. (available online with subscriber access).  "The prospects of moving wikis into the office are good, especially since they are already working well in nonwork situations such as the well-known Wikipedia.  This free online encyclopedia, compiled since early 2001 by volunteer writers, now has hundreds of thousands of entries, making it bigger than any other encyclopedia." WSJ, p. B2, Column 6.

* July 28, 2004 Small article about the existence of the Thai wikipedia in the database section of the Bangkok post