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Librarian explains why Wikipedia is not an authoritative source. http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1093338972139211.xml Attempts to look at the core issues of collaborative editing: accuracy and trust. http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/08/29/wikipedia_reputation_and_the_wemedia_project.php Short article describing one individual's experiences. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/03/wikipedia/ Proclaims that the use of Wikipedia is a good source for basic background information for journalists. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126 Studies the growth of Wikipedia and analyzes the technologies and policies that made it prosper. [PDF] http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/wikipedia.pdf Wikipedia founder responds to a dozen highly moderated questions. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230 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. http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/ Offers excerpts from previous articles written on open source projects, and offers arguments that support it. http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/005925.php Chinese censors have blocked access to Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information. http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/040614wikipedia/ Offers brief overview, similar projects, and issues with vandalism. http://www.free-definition.com/Wikipedia.html Dan Gillmor explains what a wiki is, and how Wikipedia can be a success. http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001709.shtml Early article that describes the advantages of an open-source encyclopedia, plus its shortcomings. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57364,00.html Provides a basic history, plus some limitations of using a wiki as an encyclopedia. http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Critical_views_of_Wikipedia Provides several reasons of why Wikipedia will have problems. http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia Attempts to examine the pros and cons of Wikipedia. Plus, comparisons to previous similar projects. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/27/wikipedia/index_np.html 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. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/ Wikipedia can now be downloaded to a handheld. The English, German, French, Dutch and Esperanto Wikipedias can be browsed on a handheld or Windows PC with TomeRaider as viewer (shareware). http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/ 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." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/wiki_fiddlers_big_book/ Criticisms of Wikipedia and of arguments used by its admirers. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/15/emergent_people_fail_to_impress/ Blog 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. http://www.frozennorth.org/C2011481421/E652809545/index.html Lovely forum discussion. http://slashdot.org/articles/04/09/21/0027241.shtml Summary primarily of the positive aspects and milestones of the online encyclopedia. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1335892,00.html Wikis have become the latest battleground in the presidential election as users of online encyclopedia Wikipedia squabble over entries related to President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry. http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=10909 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 ac http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html Overview of Wikipedia's growth, quality, and editing process. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-11-05-fifthofnovember_x.htm Article and commentary about the growing group of projects which fall under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/3/163158/922 Early concerns about Wikipedia's concept. http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/4/6/183820/2721 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." http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25 Larry Sanger's responses to commentary contained in recent (late 2004) articles criticisizing or questioning the reliability of Wikipedia content. http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/sanger3/wikipedia_statement.htm |
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