Editing Encyclopedia:Press coverage 2004 (section)

=== August ===

*'''[http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040802-9999-mz1b2abpcs.html Learning the AB-PCs]''' San Diego Union-Tribune, August 3, 2004. In article about student computer use, educational technology professor says of his 16-year-old, "If he wants to know something, he just goes to Dictionary.com or Wikipedia.org."

*'''[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040804/CABOOKS04/TPBusiness/General How to gain power at work in the future: Give it away]''' The Globe and Mail, August 4, 2004. Review of Thomas Malone's book ''The Future of Work''. "The Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia allows anybody to contribute to it, with no centralized quality control. 'Its success so far shows that amazingly loose hierarchies can create impressively large and complex results,' Prof. Malone says."

*'''[http://chiptalk.com/linkpage.htm The world's largest encyclopedia]''' August 6, 2004. Wikipedia was discussed on ''Chip Talk'', a one-minute [[Dave Ross]] radio feature about technology which is aired several times during the day on news stations across the United States.  The URL was given on air and posted on the Chip Talk website.

*'''The thinker's new best friend ; As the internet overtakes the encyclopedia, the editor of a new dictionary asks if this is the end for the multi-volume reference book''' London Evening Standard, August 9, 2004 (not online). Jonathon Green, author of the ''Cassell Dictionary of Slang'', reviews Wikipedia's content: "I checked out "[[slang]]" and was impressed. A solid overview, with references to cant (underworld slang), rhyming slang, Polari (camp and theatrical), and even French butcher's slang Louchebem (of which I was ignorant). All these topics are covered, some with a specimen vocabulary-and every article offers links within Wikipedia and elsewhere on the net."

*'''[http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1092128190206490.xml Doc corrects record on Apple vs. Microsoft]''' Syracuse Post-Standard, August 10, 2004. "A good source for unbiased information on the case is the Wikipedia encyclopedia at <nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org</nowiki>. Use the Wikipedia search form and look for Apple vs. Microsoft."

*'''[http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2004/nf20040811_1095_db_81.htm Howard Rheingold's Latest Connection]''' BusinessWeek Online, August 11, 2004. Q&A with [[Howard Rheingold]], author of ''Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution''. "There's also Wikipedia [the online encyclopedia written by volunteers]. It has 500,000 articles in 50 languages at virtually no cost, vs. Encyclopedia Britannica spending millions of dollars and they have 50,000 articles." At the end of the session, he says, "Here's where Wikipedia fits in. It used to be if you were a kid in a village in India or a village in northern Canada in the winter, maybe you could get to a place where they have a few books once in a while. Now, if you have a telephone, you can get a free encyclopedia. You have access to the world's knowledge. Knowing how to use that is a barrier. The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who don't, but those who know how to use what they have and those who don't."
**Wikipedia is mentioned again in a [http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/17/2138201.shtml?tid=95&tid=1 summary of the interview] on Slashdot.

*'''[http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040818_1593.htm Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship]''' BusinessWeek Online, August 18, 2004. Q&A with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. In discussing the application of open-source methods outside of software, he mentions, "There are encyclopedias -- a collection of a lot of information that's neutral. One project on the Web is Wikipedia."

*'''[http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/bus/technology/stories/081804dnbusptech.48583.html Grass-roots Encyclopedia]''' (reg. required) ''Dallas Morning News'', August 18, 2004.  Overview article about Wikipedia in personal technology section including quotes from [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] and [[User:RadicalBender|Ben Dyer]]. (For a free version, use [http://springfield.news-leader.com/business/today/1017-Experiment-202805.html this reprint] from the Springfield (MO) News-Leader.)

*'''[http://www.cbc.ca/next/schedule.html It's All About Change: An annotated interview on the future of design featuring Bruce Mau]''' at [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] Radio 1, August 20 and 22, 2004 mentions Wikipedia as an example of open-source ideas used outside software development.

*'''[http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1093338972139211.xml Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as a source]''' Syracuse Post-Standard, August 25, 2004.  (Users outside the US may bypass the annoying form by clicking on the ''Outside The US? Click Here'' link.) Questions the reliability of Wikipedia based on the fact that anyone can edit a page: "Anyone can change the content of an article in the Wikipedia, and there is no editorial review of the content. I use this Web site as a learning experience for my students. Many of them have used it in the past for research and were very surprised when we investigated the authority of the site."

*'''First Interview: Dan Gillmor''' ''[http://www.technation.com/ Tech Nation]'', August 24, 2004.  Gillmor, technology columnist for [[San Jose Mercury News]] and author of ''We the Media'' {{ISBN|0596007337}}, mentioned wikis as an "experiment that works," and Wikipedia specifically as an "encyclopedia written by its users" with 300000 articles and various language editions. He discussed how wikis defeat vandalism. The Wikipedia part is about 20 minutes into the program.

*'''[http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/2004/08/30/Lifestyle/A.CyberUtopia.Is.At.Our.Fingertips-706778.shtml A cyber-utopia is at our fingertips]''' Daily Trojan ([[University of Southern California]] student newspaper), August 29, 2004. Article about open source movement. "One of my favorite open source projects is called Wikipedia, from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," meaning "quick" or "super fast." And it's just that: an encyclopedia with super fast navigation and development."

*'''[http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/08/_free_online_en.html Free Online Encyclopedia May Be the World's Best]'''  August 29, 2004 Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, one of the most widely distributed, includes the above in its paid version, with but a teaser in the free. He takes heat for ''that'' in the feedback, but does enough Britannica bashing to make even the free version worth a read.