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In the news
The Guardian scrutinizes Wikipedia again
An October 24 article "Can you trust Wikipedia?" in the fold-out section of The Guardian's "G2" supplement analyzed Wikipedia's performance on several articles (see related story).
The Register and Andrew Orlowski, take three
Andrew Orlowski wrote about Wikipedia in The Register again, this time in October 27's "Why Wikipedia isn't like Linux", summarizing some of the mail generated following last week's scathing piece on Wikipedia's quality (see archived story).
College press
Graeme Edgeler wrote an October 24 piece called "Wikis at the Gate: Academics dissent over use of Wikipedia" for Salient, the student magazine of the Victoria University of Wellington. In it, he says "An increase in students using the on-line encyclopaedia Wikipedia in essays and research papers is causing concern among academics…"
The Beacon, newspaper for Wilkes University, posted a basic summary of Wikipedia's strengths and weaknesses in "Nothing But Net: Wikipedia" on October 30.
Free images
The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about copyleft images in their article "Get free images legally via copyleft" on October 30. It includes discussion of Yotophoto, a site which began as an easy way to locate categorized, copyright-free images from Wikipedia. The article fails to mention the Wikimedia Commons, however.
Citations in the news
Wikipedia was cited in the last week in the following publications:
- Al Jazeera, on Ahmed Chalabi [1]
- BBC News, on MMORPG [2]
- CNET, on Fitzmas [3]
- New York Magazine, on "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence" (cover story)
- Journal de Montréal (Montreal, Quebec), on Halloween
- Orlando Sentinel (Florida), on No taxation without representation and Turtle (submarine) [4]
- News24 (South Africa), on pyramid schemes [5]
- Rocky Mountain News (Colorado), on pumpkin chunking [6]
- Control Engineering (specialty magazine), on service-oriented architecture (SOA) [7]
- The Londoner (London, Ontario), on mobile [8]
- Vanguard (Nigeria), on Boeing 737 [9]
- Malaysia Star (Malaysia), on the ringgit [10]
- Monterey Herald (California), on podcasting [11]
- The Orion (California), on over-under [12]
- Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise (Oklahoma), on juggalos [13]
- Magic City Morning Star (Maine), on Rosa Parks and lying in state [14]
- The Parthenon (West Virginia), on Hurricane Katrina [15]
- Collegiate Times (Virginia Tech), on pseudoscience [16]
- Cochrane Times (Cochrane, Ontario), on in camera
Discuss this story
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera also cited us here: [17]. Pretty cool. Babajobu 17:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Philadelphia Inquirer
I emailed the author thanking them for the article and suggesting mentioning Wikimedia Commons' URL in a followup - David Gerard 14:02, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]