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2008 May

  • Ilani, Ofri (May 21, 2008). "Is that so?". Haaretz Newspaper , Israel. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985096.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-24. "Yaari hopes that Wikipedia users will soon not have to rely on their instincts concerning the reliability of a Wikipedia entry they are reading." 
    Reports research by Eti Yaari of the Information Science department at Bar-Ilan University in her doctoral thesis on the possibility of automatically evaluating the veracity of Wikipedia entries, in order to provide an efficient scale for surfers to judge the quality of an entry.
  • Hutcheon, Stephen (2005-05-26). "HSC students to get Wikipedia course". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/hsc-to-run-wikipedia-course/2008/05/26/1211653895427.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. "In an Australian first, NSW HSC students will from next year be able to take a course in studying Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia.. ..Wikipedia should be seen as a first port of call that can "point you in the direction of more authoritative resources. Because of that, I have high hopes that it will be a very valuable experience for high school students," he said, one that would expose them to the "good, bad and ugly sides" of Wikipedia." 
    A view of the inclusion of Wikipedia on the NSW English syllabus.
  • Garlick, Hattie (2008-05-29). "How Wikipedia can help schoolchildren". Times. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article4021149.ece. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. "At the start of the next academic year, high school teachers across New South Wales will be intoning a new education mantra: “Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic and Wikipedia”." 
    A new course in the high school English syllabus in New South Wales called “Global Village”, examines how modern communities interact and has Wikipedia as an example of how modern communities interact. The article then takes a satirical line about what the lessons might be.

2008 June

The Independent, 2 June 2008 

Keen, Andrew (2 June 2008). "Andrew Keen on New Media". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andrew-keen-on-new-media-837997.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-02. 

Reports a debate at Oxford University, Balliol College, between Wikipedia co-founder Dr Larry Sanger and Andrew Keen on the proposition that "the internet is the future of knowledge".

(Testo originale) (Traduzione)
«Take, for example, the deal announced in April between the German publisher Bertelsmann and the German language edition of Wikipedia. The Bertelsmann subsidiary Wissen Media are planning to publish 50,000 of Wikipedia's most frequently searched keywords in Wikipedia in a physical book. To be called the "Lexical Yearbook", it will sell for €20 (£16) and should be available in German bookshops by September.

Whereas the Germans are adapting Wikipedia to their own market, the French think that they can outwiki Wikipedia by creating their own version of the open-source knowledge website. Last month, the French publisher Larousse announced its intention to publish a French language open-source with free access to its dictionary and tools to enable users to create their own entries. In America, Google has introduced its own wannabe Wikipedia killer called Knol. And even Britannica, the British born but now US-based encyclopedia, is just about to introduce a seductively interactive new website which includes new editing tools that allow users to suggest updates and revisions to Britannica's content.

The Aussies are getting into the wiki action too. Beginning from the next academic year, high school students in New South Wales will be able to take a course exclusively dedicated to studying Wikipedia. It will become an official part of the "Global Village" elective in the school curriculum and will be designed to familiarize Australian students with using the Wikipedia site for academic research.»
«[1]»
(--Christian (discussione) 13:31, 12 mar 2009 (CET))
Progetti e utilizzi di WP in giro per il mondo. --Christian (discussione) 13:31, 12 mar 2009 (CET)
"Nupedia was hailed as one of the greatest defunct websites in history." A parte questo, niente di rilevante. --Christian (discussione) 18:43, 9 mar 2009 (CET)
  • On the latest development concerning Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne accusations that financial journalist Gary Weiss has gamed Wikipedia over the past two-and-a-half years to discredit him and his campaign against the controversial Wall Street practice of naked shorting. Article dsecribes the dilemma between the principles of sockpuppeting and privacy protection. Article describes the process leading to the banning of User:Mantanmoreland, an alleged sockpuppet of Gary Weiss. Two administrators, David Yellope and User:FT2, are interviewed.
  • Arup, Tom (June 12, 2008). "Telstra CEO in web legal spat". The Age (Australia). "A Telstra spokesman has described comments that were posted on chief executive Sol Trujillo's Wikipedia entry as "highly defamatory and offensive personal comments". A US law firm reportedly threatened Wikimedia, which runs the Wikipedia website, with legal action in March this year unless it removed "defamatory statements" from the Wikipedia entry of the Telstra chief." 
    Report of threatened legal proceeding against Wikimedia by Australian telecoms company Telsra for comments against its chief executive Sol Trujillo made in the article.
  • Newton, Jon (June 2008). "Online stalkers menace Wikipedia editors". p2pnet news. "A stalker drove former Wikipedia editor David Shankbone off the site. Mr. Shankbone describes the growing problem of harassment and stalking that targets the nonprofit encyclopedia’s most dedicated volunteers...." 
    Reports on the stalking of and threats made to some Wikipedia editors.
Story also mentioned here.
  • A Wikipedia editor writes about his experience with the project over the last five years, what inspired him to become a contributor to articles on Seattle, Washington state, and the Pacific Northwest, and why he has recently become far less active.
  • McLaughlin, Martyn (21 June 2008). "Falling exam passes blamed on Wikipedia 'littered with inaccuracies'". The Scotsman. "Wikipedia and other online research sources were yesterday blamed for Scotland's falling exam pass rates. The Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) said pupils are turning to websites and internet resources that contain inaccurate or deliberately misleading information before passing it off as their own work." 
    The author supports the SPTC's view in blaming students' trusting and undiscriminating use of internet sources, especially Wikipedia for a decline in examination results in Scotland.



July

  • "Wikipedia expands into Romansh" (in English). swissinfo.ch. July 5, 2008. 
    "Wikipedia has introduced Switzerland's fourth language Romansh. The Romansh project was the work of two brothers from the eastern canton of Graubünden, Gion-Andri and Martin Cantieni, supported by a dozen other contributors. The first two years of the work were financed by a contribution of SFr60,000 ($58,502) from the canton and the federal government, according to the daily Romansh language newspaper La Quotidiana." This relates to the creation of rm.wikipedia.
  • LONGMAN, JERÉ; JULIET MACUR (2008-07-27). "Records Suggest Chinese Gymnasts May Be Under Age" (in English) (HTML). New York Times. 
    There has been considerable talk about the ages of Chinese gymnasts on Web sites devoted to the sport. And there has been frequent editing of He’s Wikipedia entry, although it could not be determined by whom. One paragraph that discusses the controversy of her age kept disappearing and reappearing on He’s entry. As of Friday, a different version of the paragraph had been restored to the page.
  • Serrano, Carlos (2008-07-29). "Google's Alternative to Wikipedia Mostly Mirrors It" (in English) (HTML). South Korea: OhmyNews International. 
    Except for the times when I found a long list of highly personal essays unrelated to my search, most of the themes that are covered display mirrored versions of Wikipedia articles on the same subjects. This would not be remarkable if only a handful of users were doing this. But the unabashed mirroring extends through an incredible amount of articles.
  • "Rumors of High Level US-Iran Direct Talks" (in English) (HTML). Canada: Canada Free Press. July 30, 2008. 
    On this day in 2007, OMNI published a piece regarding suspicious edits made to certain articles on Wikipedia. As this writer was researching his next piece on the Lockerbie bombing, he noticed that some information regarding a Palestinian terror group had been erased. Upon closer inspection, I came to the conclusion that intelligence agencies were editing sensitive information on Wikipedia.

August

  • Kinzie, Susan (2008-08-10). "An Education in the Dangers of Online Research". The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company). 
    Article about protest over expulsion of students from Semester at Sea for violating University of Virginia's honor code for failing to cite Wikipedia properly in papers; includes quotes from professors saying they'd prefer students not use Wikipedia as a source but if they do to cite it properly as well as students complaining it was one of the few online sources they had.
  • Bindley, Katherine (August 10, 2008). "That’s Yesterday’s News, Residents Tell Wiki". New York City: The New York Times. p. CY6. 
    Some residents of the Hunts Point, Bronx neighborhood complain that the Wikipedia article is too negative, for example by using out-of-date information. The Times reports that an officer of Bronx Community Board 2 has been in touch with Wikipedia over the issue. "Jay Walsh, a spokesman for Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia, said that the site aimed to be neutral, but he added that the foundation did not censor information."
  • Addley, Esther (2008-08-13). "Diary" (in English). London: The Guardian. 
    Short diary piece reporting Sky News coverage of fighting in South Ossetia which included a briefing telling readers that "Georgia was one of the 13 colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution", taken from wikipedia.
  • Cadelago, Chris (2008-08-23). "Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit". USA: sfgate.com. 
  • Liefting, Alan (2008-08-26). "The Wikipediholic's fix". The Press (New Zealand: stuff.co.nz). "Wikipedia is part of a growing online community where software and information is created in the free open source format and it is giving the commercial world a run for its money. It will be interesting to see how the two sides square off over the coming years." 
    Friendly description of Wikipedia's project by Wikipedia User Alan Liefting.
"The coincidence of the user’s name, and the sudden spurt of activity just before news broke of Mr. McCain’s choice, has raised suspicions that YoungTrigg was a campaign operative tasked to make sure that her Wikipedia article was ready for prime time, much as handlers have been assigned to do the same for the candidate."

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