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2004 September

Non rilevante. --Christian (discussione) 00:00, 25 feb 2009 (CET)
  • From Aaan to ZZ Top BBC online news pages, September 6 2004. BBC News Dot.Life article entitled : "From Aaan to ZZ Top: An online enclyopaedia which can be edited by all and sundry aims to make finding information on the web easier, and more fun". By Jo Twist and BBC News Online science and technology staff. The BBC headlined this article on their main News page and on their Science/nature and Technology pages.
Non rilevante. --Christian (discussione) 00:00, 25 feb 2009 (CET)
  • Scouring the Web for political facts, The Journal Times (Racine, WI), September 7 2004. "Up until last Saturday, a search for "fascism" on Wikipedia, a widely used and otherwise reputable online encyclopedia, resulted in a page about George W. Bush (a comment about which you can read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fascism)." (Actually a vandal had redirected the article to George W. Bush on Friday 3 September. It was reverted after 57 minutes.)
Non rilevante. --Christian (discussione) 00:49, 25 feb 2009 (CET)
Un altro articolo critico di Register, ma in fondo, niente di rilevante. --Christian (discussione) 00:49, 25 feb 2009 (CET)

The News & Observer, September 8, 2004

Wiki meeting of minds The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) online news pages, September 8 2004.

An article by Paul Gilster, on the front page of the "Connect" section, introduces readers to the Wiki concept, and Wikipedia in particular, with a balanced synopsis.

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«But don't write off the Wikipedia. In many areas, especially technology-related subjects, the Wikipedia is a genuine resource. I use it all the time for quick definitions and discussions of computer terms, and no reference source keeps up with the latest trends as fast as one that is being rewritten on almost a daily basis. So use the Wikipedia, but with a sense of context. Unedited information, even when assembled with the best of intent, should never be your only source on any issue. The Wikipedia reminds us that comparing sources and double-checking facts with other references is sound policy no matter how the text was put together. Taken with caution, it can be a useful and surprisingly resilient tool. »
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Link corretto. L'articolo non è rilevante, ma mi sono piaciuti gli ultimi due paragrafi. --Christian (discussione) 00:49, 25 feb 2009 (CET)
  • Collaborative Conundrum: Do Wikis Have a Place in the Newsroom?, USC Online Journalism Review, September 8 2004. Article abstract: "Wikipedia has more than 340,000 articles, written by a sprawling online community. Researchers are testing its veracity, while plans proceed for fact-checking it formally. Can journalists trust Wikipedia, and can collaboration software such as wikis improve newsgathering?"
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Compares and contrasts Wikipedia with Encyclopedia Britannica. "The free Wikipedia also features a publicly authored current-events page recapping the day's top news, and it is rapidly expanding into other languages -- more than 10,000 articles have been created in each of roughly a dozen languages besides English." Reprinted in The Straits Times, Singapore [5], The Austin-American Statesman, Austin, Texas [6]
Articolo abbastanza ben scritto, ma a parte, ancora, il confronto con la Britannica, niente di particolare. --Christian (discussione) 14:25, 9 mar 2009 (CET)
  • Internet prods Asia to open up, Christian Science Monitor, September 9 2004. "China's massive firewall is already showing cracks under the weight of the Internet's expansion. The pressure has come from innumerable sources, including an onslaught of weblogs, open-source directories, and projects like Wikipedia, an "open-content" encyclopedia."
  • Recognizing art in virtual worlds, International Herald Tribune, September 11 2004. Article about the upcoming Ars Electronica festival focusing on the new Digital Communities award won by Wikipedia, but incorrectly identifies Howard Rheingold as Wikipedia's founder. "As for Wikipedia, its community aspect lies both above and below its surface. A quick visit to Wikipedia reveals only its encyclopedia articles. But alongside each of them lie discussions that help shape the content while bringing together both the readers and the writers of the articles, a distinction that is obviated by the project's design in the first place."
  • Wiki's wacky, but it really does work , Observer, September 12 2004. Very enthusiastic with comparisons with Britannica and CIA Factbook. "Yet here is something that is entirely malleable - whose entries can be changed by any Tom, Dick or Harry. How could it possibly be any good? Yet it is. I use Wikipedia regularly, and it's often very good indeed. I've just compared its entry on Iraq with that in the CIA Factbook (possibly the only unambiguously useful service ever provided by that agency). The entries are comparable in their scope and coverage: the CIA publication is better on statistics; Wikipedia is better on history and culture. The other day I looked up 'TCP/IP' (the core protocols of the internet) on Wikipedia and Britannica Online. The Wikipedia entry was much more comprehensive."
    Wikipedian's note: The Wikipedia's country articles have used the CIA world factbook as a source. Some have now been improved beyond recognition, others are little changed. --Robert Merkel 08:42, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    It should also be noted that The Observer makes a serious error by stating that all of Wikipedia's content is in the public domain. Most of Wikipedia's content is under the GFDL; portions are distributed under various other licenses and circumstances, including the public domain.
  • Meet Mr Rights, The Guardian, 20 September 2004. "Lawrence Lessig first became interested in the public value of the internet when he noticed that, by letting anybody plug a computer into the ends of the network and instantly serve up their own opinions and media tools to the world, the net was fostering a new and expansive intellectual commons. This commons was producing rapid innovations, grassroots tools such as faxyourmp.com, ambitious collaborative endeavours such as wikipedia.org, Alexandrian archive projects like archive.org and the many blogs which are starting to change our ideas about the independent press."
  • When the printed page beats the Internet, Wakefield (MA) Observer, 23 September 2004. Editorial written by librarian recommends that people keep printed reference works at home (almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, etc.) except for encyclopedias, for which CD-ROM or online versions are preferable. "Also online are several free encyclopedias, including Britannica, which offers free access to their concise version, and Wikipedia, an open-content encyclopedia that's been getting a lot of attention lately for its open, contributor-based approach."
  • Trivia: It's 'who we are', Toronto Star, 26 September 2004. Quotes a pop-culture critic on sources for information about trivia: "But if (your information) is coming from Wikipedia (an Internet encyclopedia where people post their own articles), where everything is evolving, some of that information is good and some of that is misinformation."
  • Vandals at the wiki, ADT Magazine, 28 September 2004. Article about anti-Microsoft vandalism at the newly announced FlexWiki. Starts with a brief overview of the wiki concept: "Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia, has over 350,000 pages as I write this."
  • Journalism Third Most Dangerous Career in China, OneWorld.net, 29 September 2004. "On September 23, the authorities blocked access to the Chinese version of the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia that relies on contributions from Internet-users and carries a number of articles about human rights abuses in China. The site has been blocked on several previous occasions too."
  • Free info for London visitors, The Register, 30 September 2004. "So the most useful thing the Wikipedia project could do is not write another adoring 20,000 word article on our good friend Joi Ito (the spiritual leader), or 'memes', but nail down a simple lightweight framework that librarians, schools, churches and small businesses could use as an annotation and broadcast channel."
  • Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web, Digital Divide Network, 30 September 2004. Quote from Tim Berners-Lee giving the keynote address at an MIT conference: "The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia" (which he earlier referred to as "The Font of All Knowledge").
  • Vivisimo receives another makeover, San Jose Mercury News, 30 September 2004. Article about Vivisimo's metasearch site Clusty.com. "Clusty is also one of the first search sites to index and display results from the sometimes controversial Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia being compiled from contributions by Internet users." Not sure what the basis for this statement is, as Wikipedia has been available through Google and Yahoo! searches for a long time.

1,000,000 Articles

Coverage resulting from Wikipedia's 1,000,000-article press release:

  • Wikipedia reaches one million articles, The Inquirer, September 20 2004. "We happen to like it because it saves us time and it mentions us, and our glorious leader Mike Mageek with latest [cough] picture."
  • Wikipedia hits one million, Web User, September 20 2004. "Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia, now has more than a million articles in its database, which web users can access for free."
  • Online encyclopedia Wikipedia reaches milestone: 1 million articles, DV Hardware, Netherlands, September 20 2004. "Wikipedia's rate of growth has continued to increase in recent months, and at its current pace Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring."
  • Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark, Slashdot, September 21 2004. "The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia."
  • The Little Website that Couldn't, Kuro5hin.org, September 21 2004. Notes million-article milestone and discusses how Wikipedia defies conventional wisdom. "According to the canon of academic orthodoxy, Wikipedia has no right to be as well written, professional, and accurate as it is. Not to say it is perfect, it isn't, but the vast majority of the articles are well written and many are comparable or better than their encyclopedia Britannica equivalents. This from a website where any person can write or change any article at any time, with no one paid to do quality control and no real punishments to those who vandalize the system other than being banned from the site itself."
  • Wikipedia's millionth article, p2pnet.net, September 21 2004. "'Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your help.' No chance, not with Corporate Greed in full bloom. But it's a noble ambition and it's expressed by the Wiki Foundation which yesterday announced the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia, its free, open-content, online encyclopedia project."
  • At Your Service Pack, The Village Voice, 23 September 2004. Note at the end of the TechLove With Mr. Roboto column: "Congrats to Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), the world's largest encyclopedia, for garnering its millionth entry. It's an all-volunteer affair, you realize, and they don't accept ads, either. Won't you be a saint and kick them over a few bucks during their pledge drive? Visit wikimediafoundation.org for the details; pledge enforcement vans are standing by to shake you by the ankles."
  • 'Wikis' Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online, Associated Press, 26 September 2004. "Wikipedia is unique for an encyclopedia because anybody can add, edit and even erase. And the Wikipedia is just one — albeit the best known — of a growing breed of Internet knowledge-sharing communities called Wikis"; "Try finding that in the Britannica"; "This month, it surpassed 1 million articles, including 350,000 in English — three times that of the online Encyclopedia Britannica. More than 25,000 people have written or edited at least 10 articles each."
  • Wikipedia gets a million entries, Mail & Guardian, 30 September 2004. "Regardless of whether you think it is a credible source or not, the Wikipedia, and other projects like it, give a voice to many people who would not have been able to contribute their own knowledge to the creation of an encyclopedia."
  • No more paper: Wikipedia, evolving open-source online encyclopedia, reaches one million hits, The Triangle (Drexel University student newspaper), 1 October 2004. "Wikipedia is the modern day encyclopedia, updated almost as quickly and as often as news happens. Gone are the days of sifting through massive volumes of encyclopedias to find the one piece of information you need. Now it's all on the web in one accurate, constantly expanding database."

2004 October

  • "Internet encyclopedia has stamp-collecting links" is the "Stamps on the Internet" column by William F. Sharpe in Linn's Stamp News for October 4, 2004. "Did you know that Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers, advertised stamps for sale in Linn's classified section at age 12? That's one of the unusual facts you can discover by browsing the Wikipedia site at http://en.wikipedia.org. [...] The stamp collecting page is relatively short, but the links it provides take you to other areas. The page called Philatelic Investment, for example, goes into great detail on how to invest in stamps. [...] I find Wikipedia fascinating, not only from the stamp-collecting aspect but also for the overall approach of providing free knowledge in many areas as a collaborative effort. As far as I'm concerned, this is what the Internet was intended for. [...]" He also discusses some of the community pages, and has a screenshot of the main page and what was supposed to be a image of the stamp collecting article, but a production snafu seems to have resulted in an Excel chart or something. Reading between the lines of his experience, it looks as though he didn't click deep enough to see the bulk of WP's philatelic info, and probably only saw unillustrated articles. So the takeaway is to improve the appearance and appeal of the top-level articles on a subject, and make sure to highlight routes into the depth of the content.
  • Hiking, boating, and powerline maps, Sacramento Bee, 4 October 2004. Mentioned in an internet and computer shopping column: "A collection of articles written and edited by anyone. Despite the chaos this might bring to mind, the articles tend to be learned, though unchecked unless through subsequent editing."

WIPO development agenda

  • Wild about wiki, Red Herring, 7 October 2004. "One of the best-known wikis is wikipedia.com, a free encyclopedia where the information is uploaded by users. Though generally known to contain an enormous amount of information on an endless variety of topics, the listed facts are edited by readers, and may not be as reliable as those in more official and less-pliable sources of information."

Red Herring, 14 October 2004

Wiki wars: Think this year's presidential debates have been rough? Check out Wikipedia. Red Herring, 14 October 2004.

"Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry have created even more debate than entries for sex and religion. As of October 8, Wikipedia’s President Bush entry had been tweaked 3,953 times. Its entry for Senator Kerry had been modified 3,230 times. By contrast, Wikipedia’s article on Jesus has only been edited 1,855 times since the site’s inception in 2001."

  • Megabits & Pieces, North Adams (MA) Transcript, 16 October 2004. Article about the wiki concept. "There is a movement about to use Wikis in order to transform research and Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), an open source encyclopedia available in numerous languages, including Esperanto, is certainly the leader." Also discusses several other wikis, including Wiktionary and Wikibooks.
  • Public domain, The Guardian Online section, (UK), 21 October 2004, in a article on the UK's Digital Divide. Uses Wikipedia as an example to suggest the UK's Digital Inclusion Panel is sighting a war long ago won: "My bet is that quite soon, we will notice that the web has been taken over by oldies. Wikipedia isn't being compiled by teenagers".
  • Human rights at risk, group tells Ottawa, The Globe and Mail, 25 October 2004. "Reporters Without Borders says that in September the authorities blocked access to the Chinese version of the Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia, which relies on contributions and carries articles about human-rights abuses in China."
  • Where's the Movable Type of the Wiki World?, Scot Hacker, 25 October 2004, discussing the end-user experience of setting up and customizing a wiki. Hacker chose MediaWiki as the best available option to run a course project wiki, noting that Wikipedia had inspired the course to begin with. Still he found the software's documentation "scattered and obtuse", its customizations difficult, and its attempts at a user manual lacking, and suggests the time is ripe for someone to provide a coherent, actively-developed, well-supported wiki solution.
"Wikipedia has spawned a sister project called Wiktionary (http://www.wiktionary.org), a collaborative multilingual dictionary with pronunciations, etymology and quotations. The grand ambition of these projects is nothing short of letting the demos beat the experts at their own game..."
"Personally, I still rely on the OED most of the time, but I also look forward to a day when Wiktionary beats it hands down."
  • Get set for the wiki revolution, Lem Bingley, IT Week, October 26, 2004. Bingley suggests wikis will be important for business in the near future. "[I]t's tempting to say that wikis have no relevance for business. But I fully expect that view to be invalidated." Article mentions Zuckerman's September analysis of WP (and the then-lacking Congo civil war coverage).
  • Internet site of the week, Bangkok Post, October 27, 2004 (in English) encourages Thais to contribute to the Thai Wikipedia: "Everyone here agrees that more web content in the Thai language is needed to encourage more young Thais to access the Internet and to benefit from it. So, if you feel you can contribute some knowledge in your domain of expertise in Thai, please pitch in, or you could visit just to read the free content about Thailand."
  • When No Fact Goes Unchecked, New York Times, 31 October 2004. "The current presidential race has even roiled forums built on cooperation and fairness. At Wikipedia, a sprawling, online encyclopedia written and researched by its users, the Bush-Kerry conflict has spilled over into the wording of the candidates' biographies, with each set of partisans editing the other's facts thousands of times in an escalating tit-for-tat."

2004 November

  • It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki, Newsweek, 1 November 2004. "Wales has registered the Wikipedia Foundation as a nonprofit in Florida. He has no full-time employees and no formal funding like venture capital, but this year he's raised $100,000 in small donations from Wikipedia's fans that will pay for the servers that host the site. He's also expanding into projects like the Wiktionary (a dictionary and thesaurus), Wikibooks (textbooks and manuals) and Wikiquote (quotations). The goal: to give "every single person free access to the sum of all human knowledge." To achieve that, he doesn't even have to send out stickers."
  • Marxist-Lessigism, Legal Affairs, 1 November 2004. "Another example is the Wikipedia, an open source, online encyclopedia that is entirely written, edited, and rewritten by anyone who cares to contribute to it. Even though there is no control structure—there are no editors, nor is there a publisher—it rivals commercial encyclopedias in scope and quality of coverage."
  • Today's best encyclopedia might surprise you, USA Today, 5 November 2004. "Few parents today would settle for something like that Compton's. They might look to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the World Book Encyclopedia, or Encarta – either in print on or on CD. But they're all posers compared to the Big Gun of the encyclopedia world – the one that boasts the titles of largest, fastest growing, and most up-to-date. That would be the Wikipedia."
  • All the news that's fit to blog, The Guardian, 6 November 2004. Book review of Dan Gillmor's We the Media. "He tells us ... of wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where anyone can write or edit an article, which now has more than one million articles in more than 100 languages."
  • Hunting with Firefox, The Guardian, November 9, 2004. A leader congratulating the whole open source movement on Mozilla Firefox's 1.0 release, it states that "Firefox deserves to succeed, but even if it does not it will have highlighted the astonishing success of open source, well known inside the web community but not outside. Among other services, it has its own operating system (Linux), an acclaimed alternative to Microsoft Office (OpenOffice.org), and its own encyclopedia (Wikipedia) with a million entries. The open source movement has become one of globalisation's unexpected treasures."
  • Farther-reaching, faster ignorance thanks to Web, Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner, 15 November 2004. Director of Fairbanks library system writes: "Librarians abhor using reference sources that don't have established credibility editorial rigor, and while Wikipedia is an interesting social experiment and "includes information more often associated with almanacs, gazetteers and specialist magazines," it's too untrustworthy to be used as a secondary source."
  • The Faith-Based Encyclopedia, Tech Central Station, 15 November 2004. Article critical about the quality of Wikipedia. The reviewer (a former editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica) illustrates his point with the article on Alexander Hamilton. "The user who visits Wikipedia [...] is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him." (Linked to from Slashdot)
    • A response: Digital Democratization: The Digital World and Its Rulers Are Undergoing Some Growing Pains, ABC News Silicon Insider, 18 November 2004. "Could the Wikipedia do with more oversight on matters of accuracy? Absolutely; and it will only survive the test of the marketplace over time if it does so. But let's not forget, as McHenry seemed to, that the Wikipedia is also only three years old. It and the Web are only now groping their way toward new models of collaboration and valuation — models that I suspect will include greater peer review, Olympics-type grading systems that eliminate the highs and lows, and even, perhaps something like the King James Bible translators, small teams that police themselves for the highest levels of accuracy and quality."
  • Would You Trust Joe Isuzu’s Blog?, EContentMag.com, 23 November 2004 (the time stamp is the 1 December! I've emailed them about this problem). Talks about how journalists should deal with websites and Wikipedia content and how the author believes that new ways of referencing information need to be developed due to sites like Wikipedia.

Wired.com, 29 November 2004

Wikipedia Creators Move Into News, Wired.com, 29 November 2004.

Describes Wikinews project and compares it to the existing Wikipedia. "After doing much in recent years to revolutionize the way an encyclopedia can be built and maintained, the team behind Wikipedia is attempting to apply its collaborative information-gathering model to journalism."

  • The Wikipedia Wars, School Librarian Journal, November, 2004. subtitle: School librarian sparks fight over free online resource. "The ensuing conflict between techies and librarians and open content versus traditional resources underscores the challenges facing information specialists in the Digital Age, particularly those who work with young people."

2004 December

  • Arrr!, The Cornell Daily Sun, Jim Shliferstein, December 2 2004. Details deliberate vandalism on Wikipedia by the author of the piece (Jim Shliferstein) and his mate. "I never fully understood the sheer awfulness of the human condition until last Tuesday. In the course of a debate about mammalian intelligence, my friend Harlan and I discovered an online encyclopedia called Wikipedia.org, a depressingly successful effort to harness the elusive Power of Loser."
  • Her So-Called Digital Life, Wired News, December 2, 2004. A new usage of the word Wikipedia: "She isn't an aberration. On the contrary, she's a trend. Most of her friends -- many of them geeks and übergeeks -- live this way, the internet at the center of their relationships. Hodder is one of a growing number of technophiles whose lives are one big Wikipedia (a web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit). And the life she leads may foreshadow yours."
  • With information access so easy, truth can be elusive, Associated Press, 6 December 2004. "The credentials of the people authoring grassroots Web journals and a committee-written encyclopedia called Wikipedia are often unclear. Nevertheless, some Internet users believe that such resources can collectively portray events more accurately than any single gatekeeper." (widely reprinted, link is to USA Today)

San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 December 2004

Everyone's Encyclopedia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 December 2004.

Detailed article recounting the story of Wikipedia's origins and subsequent developments.

Articolo carino, niente di troppo originale. Pre-Citizendium. --Andrea (discussione) 14:28, 16 feb 2009 (CET)
Link corretto. --Christian (discussione) 01:45, 25 feb 2009 (CET)
  • My Reference Desk, Express Computer, 13 December 2004. "In that case you’d definitely be turning to resources like the Wikipedia, free of any charge since it has been written collaboratively by contributors from all over the world. Why not then throw in the Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikibooks as well."
  • The Internet Column: Looking back at 2004, The Scotsman, 13 December 2004. "Interest in wiki has soared in the last year and sites like Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) and Wikitravel (wwww.wikitravel.org) have captured headlines around the world. Watch out for more wiki; this is one idea that has only just started to show its potential."

Forbes, 13 December 2004

Extreme Blogging, Forbes, 13 December 2004.

Article about wikis as "the next big thing" has a detailed discussion of Wikipedia. "We asked Frederick Allen, Managing Editor of American Heritage [published by Forbes], to compare entries from Britannica Online and the Wikipedia. He was skeptical about the Wikipedia, but after throwing several queries at the two encyclopedias (Haydn, Millard Fillmore, warblers), he admitted, "it looks as if Wikipedia's gotten a lot better, more thorough and more accurate." Even the Wikipedia's James II of Britain article beat Britannica in size, reach and outside references. But Allen cautioned that there's "still the underlying problem that you can't be sure of the accuracy of what it presents, because of the fact that it's open to contributions from the public."

Syracuse Post-Standard, 22 December 2004

Spam filters search for patterns in words, Syracuse Post-Standard, 22 December 2004.

From Dr. Gizmo's Q&A: "Q. I am happy that I could find one person who has had the guts to criticize Wikipedia. - T.H., freenet.de (Germany) A. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that allows anyone, regardless of qualifications, to write an entry or revise what someone else wrote. The doctor finds this ridiculous. That's not an encyclopedia; it's graffiti. Unfortunately, Wikipedia is easily accessed on the Internet, which makes it an easy source of misinformation for kids doing homework."

Larry Sanger, 24 December 2004

Larry Sanger's Knowledge Free-for-All, Wade Roush, MIT Technology Review.

"There’s a second complaint against Wikipedia that bothers Sanger more deeply—the fractiousness among Wikipedians themselves. Sanger says participants often become embroiled in “revert wars” in which overprotective authors undo the changes others try to make to their articles. He says he’s afraid that this kind of behavior drives away academics and other experts whose contributions would otherwise raise Wikipedia’s quality." Referenced on slashdot 24 December 2004 ([8])

  • '04 crunk with clear and cream, Arizona Republic, 26 December 2004. Article about "words that rose to prominence in 2004" includes wiki and mentions Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikinews as examples.
  • Gettin' wiki with it, Express Computer, 27 December 2004. " If you’re dabbling with the Wikipedia for the first time, it comes as quite a shock that you have the power to edit any of the existing content, deleting or modifying what others have written and adding in your own two-bit wisdom."
  • Favorite Web sites for 2004, Yomiuri Shimbun, 27 December 2004. "The Wikipedia, still in its relative infancy, is also a really fun resource for random learning. Each day, a different article is featured on the main page, and you can use the random page feature to take you directly to unexpected topics."

Indian Ocean earthquake

Coverage of Wikipedia's article on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake:
  • Information wave, Red Herring, 27 December 2004. Discusses the spread of information on the internet about earthquake and tsunami, and mentions Wikipedia articles as examples.
  • The Future of News Right Now, Will Richardson, eSchool News, 28 December 2004. "And when I do want a more complete picture of the story, I still don't go to the (NY) Times. Instead, I go to Wikipedia. Now I know there is some debate about the veracity of the information there. But take a minute to check out the Wikipedia entry on the tsunami event and tell me you aren't amazed. I know I am."
  • Lazy guide to net culture: Tsunami, The Scotsman, 29 December 2004. "An invaluable source of information on the disaster"
  • Tsunami weblinks guide, The Times, 29 December 2004. "The tsunami already has its own exhaustive entry on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, including an animation from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, casualty updates and details on the relief operation."
  • MSNBC television ran a live segment called "Cyberspace Collaboration". Guest Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com mentioned Wikipedia as a starting point for background information and links to collaborative and blog-based information on the earthquake and tsunami. (Reference) (2:30PM EST on December 31, 2004)


  • Why the web is often woeful, BBC News, 29 December 2004. Commenting on the state of search engine technology: "I am making a lot more use of specific searches on places like Wikipedia and subscription database services."
  • Bazeley, Michael. "Blogs, message boards draw world closer after (tsunami) tragedy." The Mercury News. December 31, 2004. [9]
"You can get a really good consensus picture of what's going on that's stronger than any one news organization could offer," said Jimmy Wales, founder of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. "So many people are on the ground in different places. And people pick up very quickly which are the bloggers to read, and they bring that information to the forefront and amplify it."
"Volunteers at Wikipedia, a collaborative site that can be edited by virtually anyone, quickly created a Web page dedicated to the earthquake and tsunamis. Users have posted photos, graphics and a robust list of links to other sources of information. As of Thursday, the page had been edited 1,500 times, Wales said."
"It's a place for people to synthesize all of the information and sort through it," Wales said.

Kuro5hin, 30 dicembre 2004

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