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780 Listings - DR (10/10)780 Listings - DR (10/10) Salon.com - Everyone is an editor - http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2004/04/27/wikipedia
Attempts to examine the pros and cons of Wikipedia. Plus, comparisons to previous similar projects.
230,016 Listings - DR (10/10)230,016 Listings - DR (10/10) CNN.com - Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site - http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/03/wikipedia/
Short article describing one individual's experiences.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired News: Not Your Father's Encyclopedia - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57364,00.html
Early article that describes the advantages of an open-source encyclopedia, plus its shortcomings.
877 Listings - DR (8/10)877 Listings - DR (8/10) USA Today: Today's Best Encyclopedia Might Surprise You - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-11-05-fifthofnovember_x.htm
Overview of Wikipedia's growth, quality, and editing process.
On Target - DR (8/10)On Target - DR (8/10) Mediapost.com - Wikipedia's Symbiotic Relationship With Search - http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=30253
Article by Max Kalehoff. "Wikipedia's orderly collection of consumer-created content is becoming a high-powered magnet for Internet searches." "For marketers, Wikipedia can be an unpredictable variable capable of influencing customers and stakeholders. Consider not only its impact on brand search results, but also the impact of potentially inaccurate, unfair, or partisan content. Wikipedia and its contributors can be friends or foes." [Free registration required to view]
30 Listings - DR (8/10)30 Listings - DR (8/10) ITworld.com - Chinese censors block access to Wikipedia - http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/040614wikipedia/
Chinese censors have blocked access to Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information.
56 Listings - DR (8/10)56 Listings - DR (8/10) New Scientist: Wikipedia 2.0 - Now with Added Trust - http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19526226.200-wikipedia-20--now-with-added-trust.html
The online encyclopedia is set to trial two systems aimed at boosting readers' confidence in its accuracy.
1,655 Listings - DR (6/10)1,655 Listings - DR (6/10) Guardian Unlimited - Wikipedia's success - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/oct/26/g2.onlinesupplement
Summary primarily of the positive aspects and milestones of the online encyclopedia.
21 Listings - DR (6/10)21 Listings - DR (6/10) Poynter Online - Wikipedia for Journalists - http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126
Proclaims that the use of Wikipedia is a good source for basic background information for journalists.
21 Listings - DR (5/10)21 Listings - DR (5/10) Many-to-Many: Wikipedia Reputation and the Wemedia Project - http://many.corante.com/archives/2004/08/29/wikipedia_reputation_and_the_wemedia_project.php
Attempts to look at the core issues of collaborative editing: accuracy and trust.
21 Listings - DR (5/10)21 Listings - DR (5/10) Many-to-Many: Who's afraid of Wikipedia? - http://many.corante.com/archives/2005/02/28/whos_afraid_of_wikipedia.php
Teacher discusses students citing Wikipedia and when that is appropriate.
21 Listings - DR (5/10)21 Listings - DR (5/10) The Importance of... The Great Wikipedia Authority Debate - http://importance.corante.com/archives/005925.php
Offers excerpts from previous articles written on open source projects, and offers arguments that support it.
3,418 Listings - DR (5/10)3,418 Listings - DR (5/10) Encyclopodia - http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/
Free software version of Wikipedia for Apple iPod devices. [English/German]
3,418 Listings - DR (5/10)3,418 Listings - DR (5/10) WikiBrowse - http://wikiproject.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia dedicated, open source browser for Windows.
253 Listings - DR (5/10)253 Listings - DR (5/10) The Register: Wikipedia's Emergent People Fail to Impress Readers - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/15/emergent_people_fail_to_impress/
Criticisms of Wikipedia and of arguments used by its admirers in an article by Andrew Orlowski.
253 Listings - DR (5/10)253 Listings - DR (5/10) The Register - Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/wiki_fiddlers_big_book/
Commentary by Andrew Orlowski. "Our jibe that the Wikipedia is the world's most useless encyclopedia drew precisely two angry responses. But both illustrate the condition perfectly."
253 Listings - DR (5/10)253 Listings - DR (5/10) The Register: Wikipedia 'to Make Universities Obsolete' - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/
Opinion article by Andrew Orlowski suggesting that Wikipedia has a long way to go before it's a stand-in for libraries and scholarly publications.
301 Listings - DR (4/10)301 Listings - DR (4/10) Slashdot: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds - http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230
Wikipedia founder responds to a dozen highly moderated questions.
301 Listings - DR (4/10)301 Listings - DR (4/10) Slashdot: Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark - http://slashdot.org/articles/04/09/21/0027241.shtml
Lovely forum discussion.
40 Listings - DR (4/10)40 Listings - DR (4/10) First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/
Journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli. Explains the success of Wikipedia thanks to a solution to the problem of the submission of undesirable pieces of information.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) Frozen North: How Authoritative is Wikipedia? - http://www.frozennorth.org/C2011481421/E652809545/index.html
Weblog entry. Describes the author's process of putting errors into Wikipedia and watching for corrections to them. Suggests how fact-checking needs to be improved at Wikipedia, and gives ideas for further experiments.
6 Listings - DR (4/10)6 Listings - DR (4/10) Sourcewatch: Wikipedia - http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia
Provides a critical review of Wikipedia.
2,871 Listings - DR (2/10)2,871 Listings - DR (2/10) Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? - http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/2004/papers/wikipedia.pdf
Studies the growth of Wikipedia and analyzes the technologies and policies that made it prosper.
7,463 Listings - DR (2/10)7,463 Listings - DR (2/10) Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software. (GNU Free Documentation License).
48 Listings - DR (1/10)48 Listings - DR (1/10) kuro5hin.org - Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25
Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger writes, "Wikipedia does have two big problems, and attention to them is long overdue. These problems could be eliminated by eliminating a single root problem."
48 Listings - DR (1/10)48 Listings - DR (1/10) kuro5hin.org - Wikinews And The Growing Wikimedia Empire - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/3/163158/922
Article and commentary about the growing group of projects which fall under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella.
48 Listings - DR (1/10)48 Listings - DR (1/10) kuro5hin.org - Can an Open Content Encyclopedia Thrive? - http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/4/6/183820/2721
Early concerns about Wikipedia's concept.
On Target - DR (1/10)On Target - DR (1/10) Infodisiac - http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/
Offers Wikipedia in several languages in TomeRaider format, for Palm OS, Pocket PC, and EPOC Smart Phones.
60 Listings - DR (1/10)60 Listings - DR (1/10) Building a (fast) Wikipedia Offline Reader - http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
Article by Thanassis Tsiodras describing how he put together a searchable offline version of the online encyclopedia using various open source tools.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Botwiki - http://botwiki.sno.cc
Documenting, developing and testing MediaWiki's bots, mainly for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation's projects.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Wapedia - http://wapedia.mobi/en/
Wikipedia optimized for browsing from mobile phones.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) DBpedia - http://dbpedia.org/
A community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. Details of datasets, online access, and example use cases.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Wikipedia Weekly - http://wikipediaweekly.org/
Podcast about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundations' project by five wikipedians.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia - http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=111504A
Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica, wonders about the Wikipedian assumptions that writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive and that articles will eventually reach a very high degree of accuracy.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Wikipedia Watch - http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/
A critical look at this encyclopedia and the people behind it.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Placeopedia.com - http://Placeopedia.com
Project to connect Wikipedia articles with their geographical locations. Provides a google maps interface to handle user submissions.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Wikipedia Boycott Campaign - http://bluwiki.com/go/BoycottWikipedia
Criticism and Boycott Campaign towards Wikipedia
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Wikipedia Review - http://wikipediareview.com
Forum dedicated to criticism of Wikipedia, along with editorials from the moderators.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Wikizine - http://wikizine.org
News bulletin on Wikimedia Foundation's projects by a steward and old-timer editor. [English, Español, Deutsch, Indonesia]
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) WikiScanner - http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
The much discussed list of anonymous edits on Wikipedia from well known organizations.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Wikitruth - http://www.wikitruth.info
Self-defined scandal sheet that focus on publishing deleted articles from Wikipedia.

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