Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Press coverage 2005 (section)

==August==
*[[Der Spiegel|Spiegel]] Surfs the Web, "Wikimania Sweeps Frankfurt", August 4, 2005. [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,368274,00.html]
:"Wikimania, a four-day gathering of those behind the successful on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has taken over [[Frankfurt]]. The main topic of the meeting: Where will Wiki go from here?"
::''Fun quote'': "It's telling that Wikimania is taking place in [[Germany]]. [[Jimmy Wales|Wales]] recently wrote in his blog "Like the great artist ... [[David Hasselhoff]], I'm only appreciated overseas."

* A Wikimania interview of Jimbo is mis-interpreted as a change in policy:[http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1123257780975B253 IOL.ca.za], [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20050805-1259-media-wikipedia.html Sign on San Diego (Union-Tribune)], [http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-08-05T193226Z_01_L05178250_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MEDIA-WIKIPEDIA-COL.XML Reuters Canada], [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-08-05T160019Z_01_EIC557626_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-MEDIA-WIKIPEDIA.XML Reuters Britain], [http://today.reuters.com/sponsoredby/VerizonNewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2005-08-05T163556Z_01_L05178250_RTRIDST_0_NET-MEDIA-WIKIPEDIA-DC.XML Reuters], [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-08-05T160851Z_01_N05216510_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-MEDIA-WIKIPEDIA-DC.XML Reuters International], [http://www.rednova.com/news/international/198737/webs_wikipedia_to_tighten_editorial_rulesfounder/ Red Nova News], [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080500771.html Washington Post], [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8845735/ MSNBC], [http://www.bizreport.com/news/9164/ BizReport], [http://news.com.com/Wikipedia+to+tighten+editorial+rules/2100-1025_3-5820655.html c|net]

* In a leader article on "the 10th birthday of the Internet as a mass phenomenon" [[The Guardian]] says:
**"Although, contrary to the instincts of its early protagonists, the web has long since been colonised by commerce, it still nurtures its founding community spirit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the startling success of the open source movement which enables enthusiasts and professionals all over the world to work together from remote locations to produce services that are freely available for anyone with a computer linked to the internet. The thousands of products so far released include the Linux operating system (a free alternative to Microsoft's pervasive Windows), OpenOffice (an alternative to Microsoft's Word and Excel) '''and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, with well over a million entries written entirely by its readers.'''" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1544560,00.html]

* Wilson, Jessica. "Wikipedia Wonderboy calls Ottawa home". ''[[The Ottawa Citizen]]''. [[August 10]], 2005.
** The ''Citizen'' runs a profile on Wikipedia's most prolific user, [[User:SimonP|SimonP]]. Discusses user's interest in and use of the project: "I think writing in a vacuum would be somewhat boring," but knowing his work is so widely read makes up for the lack of a paycheque — sort of. "What I'd really like is for someone to pay me to write encyclopedia articles, but I think that might be somewhat unrealistic," he said.

* Dodson, Sean. "Worldwide Wikimania". ''[[The Guardian]]''. [[August 11]], 2005. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1546162,00.html]
** In an article entirely about Wikimedia: "At Wikimania, Jimmy Wales, the movement's founder, identified the next pieces of the jigsaw likely to fall into place. In his keynote address, Wales named a list of things "that should be free". While not quite commandments, they amount to 10 ideas about how the "Free Culture Movement", as he termed it, could extend the wiki ethic beyond the pages of its ever-growing encyclopedia."

*Johnson, Bobbie. "The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee". ''[[The Guardian]]'' online, [[August 12]], 2005. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1547447,00.html]
** Wikipedia used as prime example of one of Berners-Lee's ideas.  "One of his earliest ideas was the "read/write web", where users could change websites as well as observe them. The proliferation of weblogs, and particularly the success of the user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, prove that democratising the online space can have wide-ranging and legitimate uses." 

*Manes, Stephen. "Google Isn't Everything". ''[[Forbes]]'', August 15, 2005, p. 56. [http://www.forbes.com/home/forbes/2005/0815/056.html]
:"I happened to wonder about the first recorded term of the term '[[personal computer]],' so I Googled around and ended up at Wikipedia, the hit-or-miss user-developed encyclopedia, whose 'personal computer' entry declared authoritatively that 'The earliest known use of the term was in ''[[New Scientist]]'' magazine in [[1964]], in a series of articles called 'The World in 1984'.'  I still don't know the answer to my question, but I do know &mdash;no thanks to Google&mdash;that Wikipedia got it wrong."
::''After this slam, the author went on to laud the online use of local public libraries.  He did not choose to improve our civilization by correcting the Wikipedia article; [[User:Lllll]] took care of this for him, replacing the above with information that Manes alleges is correct.''  - [[User:Tempshill|Tempshill]] 03:58, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

*Connor, Alan. "Rewriting the rule books". ''[[BBC News Online]]'', [[August 15]], 2005. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4152860.stm]
** Uses Wikimania as a jumping off point to examine Wikipedia specifically. He then refers to several blog comments about Wikipedia, and finally discusses how wikis and open human knowledge is likely to proceed.
:"But one event this week has received scant mainstream coverage, even though it has enormous implications for tech-heads and global village idiots alike."

*Brown, Andrew. "The Trouble with Jamie Kane". ''[[The Guardian|MediaGuardian]]'' online, [[August 16]], 2005. [http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,1550018,00.html]
** Reports on the controversy over the creation of the Wikipedia article on [[Jamie Kane]], a fictional singer who is the centrepiece of a [[BBC]] online game. The initial writing of the article by an IP which traced to the BBC and which did not make clear the subject was fictional led to a fierce debate on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jamie Kane]].
:"A Wikipedia article, posted from within the BBC, appeared about a British pop singer, Jamie Kane, which contained all you could possibly want to know about him except for the fact that he didn't exist."

* "Storm blogs offer Katrina insight " on the [[BBC News]] [[August 31]], 2005 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4200702.stm] mentions the contribution of Wikipedia to the coverage of [[Hurricane Katrina]]. 
:''Wikipedia, the user-generated net encyclopaedia, provided video coverage of the hurricane and regularly updated reports on the storms history and effects.''

*Marti, Don. "Editors' Choice Awards 2005".  ''[[Linux Journal]]'', Issue #136, August 2005.  [http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/136] [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8293]
** Wikipedia wins the Linux Journal ''Editors' Choice Award'' for the best ''Nontechnical or Community Website''.  While the article itself is dated [[June 30]], it appeared in the August 2005 edition of Linux Journal.
:''[[Robert Love]] calls Wikipedia, "probably the single greatest thing on Earth."''