Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Press coverage 2005 (section)

==November==

*"[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986453 Wikipedia, Open Source and the Future of the Web]," [[NPR]]'s ''Talk of the Nation'' [[November 2]], [[2005]].  Interviews with [[Jimbo Wales]], [[Chris Anderson (Wired)|Chris Anderson]] and [[Nicholas Carr]].

*"[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/641358.html Ten years after]", [http://www.haaretz.com/ haaretz.com], [[November 3]], [[2005]]. 
**On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of [[Yitzhak Rabin]], Haaretz notes the boom in conspiracy theories and notes those on the English and Hebrew Wikipedias that claim [[Shimon Peres]] was behind it.

*"[http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=255920&area=/insight/insight__national/ Can You Trust Wikipedia?]", ''[[Mail & Guardian Online]],'' [[November 7]], [[2005]]. 
**Similar to the ''Guardian's'' exercise (see [[24 October]]) the ''Mail & Guardian Online'' asked local experts to use a scale of 1 to 10 to rate Wikipedia articles on South African subjects: [[Sangoma]]s 6/10 - "It needs to be placed within a bigger conceptual framework of traditional healers and the current roles need to described"; [[Media in South Africa]] 2/10 "disappointing"; [[South Africa national rugby league team]] and [[South Africa national rugby union team]] 10/10 "If I were to be hyper-critical, I might say that they are a little too up to date and don't care enough for history"; [[African National Congress]] 7/10 "the entry was surprisingly accurate (perhaps I have low expectations): one clear factual error only is less than I would have expected"; [[Braai]] 8/10 "could be a more in-depth description incorporating favourite dishes from various areas" and [[boerewors]] 6/10 "not invented by the boers"; [[South African National Defence Force]] 7/10 "very useful and, surprisingly, factually very correct. There is also an absence of emotional opinions in the presentation of the [historical] facts -- something that you don't always find in South Africa these days"; [[Economy of South Africa]] 6/10 "a lot of information about the current state of the South African economy and economic policy, but provides little context and is poorly organised"; [[Telkom (South Africa)|Telkom]] refused to comment on the article about themselves.

* "[http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=18497&repository=0001_article Wary of Wikipedia: Online encyclopedia is easy to update, prone to errors]," by Mark Kogan, ''[[Stanford Daily]]'', [[November 8]], [[2005]].

*"[http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/nov2005/id20051109_002975.htm The Impact of 'Ambient Findability']," ''[[Business Week]],'' [[November 9]], [[2005]]. "We can now select our sources and choose our news. And in this era of Google, blogs, and the Wikipedia, we're realizing there are many truths and many versions of the truth." -- [[Peter Morville]]

*Mark Chillingworth (November 10 2005), "[http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2145845/tax-group-say-wikipedia Tax group has its say on Wikipedia]", ''[[Information World Review]]''.
**"The Professional Contractors Group (PCG), an organisation for freelance and temporary contract workers in the UK, has joined the authoring ranks of Wikipedia, the open source encyclopaedia" (they are editing [[IR35]] and [[S660A]]).
*Alex Mindlin (November 14, 2005), "[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/business/14drill.html More Find Online Encyclopedia is Handy]" ''New York Times'', page C4.
**"3,290,000 Number of unique visitors for Wikipedia September 2004"
**"12,800,000 Number of unique visitors for Wikipedia September 2005"
**"By several measures, the user-written online encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com (sic)) has exploded in popularity over the last year. The Internet traffic-measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings found that Wikipedia had more than tripled its monthly readership in September from the same month in 2004. September may have been a month of especially heavy usage for Wikipedia: the site does better during major new events, and September saw both the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the confirmation of John Roberts Jr. as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court."
**"But Wikipedia's popularity is not limited to periods of big news. Intelliseek, a marketing-research firm that measures online buzz, has found that the term Wikipedia is consistently used by bloggers -- about twice as often as the term 'encyclopedia' --and showed up in roughly one out of every 600 blog posts last month; it was one of every 3,300 posts in October 2004."
**"'For bloggers, it's almost like a badge of credibility to embed Wikipedia in their blog references', said Pete Blackshaw, chief marketing officer for Intelliseek. 'There's something about Wikipedia that confers a degree of respectability, because multiple Web users have converged on it.' "
*"[http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=256606&area=/insight/insight_tech/ Wikipedia springs into action after M&G Online article]", ''[[Mail & Guardian Online]],'' [[November 15]], [[2005]]. Mentions of [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]] [[User:Tim Chambers|Tim Chambers]], [[User:Elf-friend|Elf-friend]], and Mark Binfield. Follow-up to the article on November 7th.
*"[http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051118/ENT/511180306/1002 Wikipedia may not be the best source]", [http://www.recordnet.com The Record, Central Valley California], November 15 2005. Slightly critical article quoting a high school & college students who use Wikipedia.
* [http://news.com.com/2009-1025_3-5944453.html How wikis are changing our view of the world] [[CNET]] [[November 29]], [[2005]]. "Wikis began in various forms, but it was the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia that propelled the concept into the popular consciousness."

* [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/051118.html Oh, Smedley: Was there really a fascist plot to overthrow the United States government?] in [[Cecil Adams|The Straight Dope]], a weekly column in [[The Chicago Reader]], [[2005-11-18]].
*: In the column, a reader asks [[Cecil Adams]] for additional information about a topic he first read about in Wikipedia.

*Mak Mun San. "Wakey, Wakey, Wikipedians edit the world" ''[[The Sunday Times (Singapore)|The Sunday Times]]'' page L8-9, [[20 November]] [[2005]].
:*The artice discusses the phenomenon of Wikipedia. It also defines wiki terms such as 'NPOV', 'Wiki', and 'Wikipediholic'.

*"[http://www.idea-knowledge.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=1261385 Wikipedia: the dawn of democratic media?]" ([[Improvement and Development Agency|I&DeA Knowledge]], uploaded [[November 21]], [[2005]]). In an interview with [[Jimbo Wales]], the Editor of I&DeA Knowledge introduces Wikipedia to the readers of this online journal which is targeted at [[United Kingdom]] [[Local Government in the United Kingdom|local government]] professionals.
**"The magic with this online encyclopedia – in case you didn’t know – is that with one click of a button, you can make your own contribution, or edit an existing article. Just choose your subject, and have your say. The surprise factor is that the information on the website is coherent and intelligent. It hasn’t been vandalised beyond recognition."
**"As a means of sharing information, establishing internal networks, and managing projects, as well as being a way of engaging the public in consultations and other collaborative initiatives, the potential for implementing wikis as a core tool for local government is clear. And as far as Jimbo’s good vibes are concerned, well, we could all do with a little of that couldn’t we?"

* Komarova, Anastasia. "Зрители снимаются с мест" - [[Novaya Gazeta]], [[November 21]], 2005, page 21. The article tells that nowadays people abandon TV because they want to control the information they receive. The examples include [[TiVo]] and [[LiveJournal]] as well as Wikipedia as ''"the most popular free-of-charge online encyclopedia, one of the 50 most visited websites in the world"'' ([http://2005.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2005/87n/n87n-s36.shtml source]).

* [[John Seigenthaler Sr.]]. [http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm A false Wikipedia 'biography'] ''[[USA Today]]'' [[November 29]], [[2005]]. An opinion piece written to document how an anonymous Wikipedia contributor accused Seigenthaler of possibly killing [[John F. Kennedy|John]] and/or [[Robert F. Kennedy]], a claim which remained on Seigenthaler's Wikipedia biography for three months. Seigenthaler complains that no one is held accountable for libel on the internet in general by the law or U.S. Congress.

* [http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5975227.html Web tool puts new face on Wikipedia] [[CNET]] [[November 29]], [[2005]]. Discusses a tool called Gollum, created by Harald Hanek.

* Ryan Blitstein, [http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-11-30/news/feature_print.html Craig$list.com], ''[[SF Weekly]]'', [[November 30]], [[2005]]. Mostly about [[Craigslist]], but there is a favorable mention of Wikipedia and and a less favorable mention of [[Wikinews]].

* Eric Oatman, "Make Way for Wikis", School Library Journal, November 2005, discusses the use of wikis in school curriculum and discusses Wikipedia as a source, with quotes from Jimmy Wales.