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==December== *"[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/start.html?pg=14 War of the Words]", ''[[Wired magazine|Wired]]'', [[December]] [[2005]], p. 60 **A full-page discussion which acknowledges the article count of 750,000 articles in Wikipedia. The page notes the differences of opinion over some articles which are recorded to have undergone notorious edit wars. The displutes include [[George W. Bush]], the efforts to document [[J. Lo]]'s age, and the inclusion of some titles in the [[Star Wars]] literature under an equal billing with the Star Wars movies. *"Complaints Over Wikipedia Accountability With Bios" [[December]], [[2005]] - [[Public Information Research|Daniel Brandt]] has been complaining over the accuracy and presence of a page about him at Wikipedia. On the other hand, [[John Seigenthaler Sr.]], the former assistant to US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, is complaining over his Wikipedia biography. [http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051201-092150 Searchenginewatch.com] *Cooper, Charles. "[http://news.com.com/Wikipedia+and+the+nature+of+truth/2010-1025_3-5979331.html Wikipedia and the nature of truth]", [[news.com]], [[December 2]], 2005. An opinion piece debating Wikipedia's level of truth following John Seigenthaler Sr.'s criticism of his own Wikipedia entry. *Kirkpatrick, David "[http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1137513,00.html Fed Up With E-Mail? Try a Wiki]", [[fortune.com]], [[December 2]], 2005. "If you aren’t acquainted with it, go right now to Wikipedia.org, look up anything you care about, and prepare to be amazed. 'Why will we ever again need any other form of reference?' you may wonder...." *:Kirkpatrick, David "[http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1139670,00.html?promoid=yahoo Cellphones as Change Agents]", [[fortune.com]], [[December 9]], 2005. Refers to the previous article whie commenting that wikipedia was mentioned at a FORTUNE dinner. *LeClaire, Jennifer "[http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/t2zaWzTywYO9Qr/Wikipedia-Hits-a-Wall.xhtml Wikipedia Hits a Wall], LinuxInsider, [[2 December]], 2005. *: Rehashes [[John Seigenthaler Sr.]] and [[Public Information Research|Daniel Brandt]] complaints about the innacuracy of their bios. Although he isn't threatening to sue, Brandt is quoted with questions on who would be liable in a case of libel. The article also includes quotes from [[Jimbo Wales]] defending monitoring of articles by editors. *"Wikipedia's Jimbo is the Linus of encyclopedias", [[Helsingin sanomat]] December 3, 2005, page B 9. **Summary: Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, 39, is a nerd guru with a great mission. He wishes to bring a free encyclopedia to all people of the world. Only five years ago, such an idea would have been considered stupid. According to Wales, Wikipedia now has 2.5 million articles in almost 200 languages and gets more traffic than the webpages of several American newspapers put together. The quality of Wikipedia is a constant problem and thus the scientific community has doubts about Wikipedia. Wales is interested in Nicholas Negroponte's "hundred dollar laptop" to bring Wikipedia to the world's poor. **Comment article: Testing Wikipedia against a Finnish paper encyclopedia. Wikipedia has less information about traditional topics such as the province of Häme, but more information about current topics such as parkour. The English Wikipedia is larger, more detailed and better developed than the Finnish one. The Encyclopedia Britannica has more coverage on traditional topics such as the Nile than Wikipedia but less coverage about current topics such as podcasting or phishing. * Katherine Q. Seelye: [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/weekinreview/04seelye.html?ex=1291352400&en=6a97402d6595c6f1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar"], [[New York Times]] December 4, 2005 **The New York Times discusses the Seigenthaler episode. In a follow up to the article, the [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html New York Times Learning Network] designed an entire [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20051205monday.html high school lesson plan] around the issues at hand. * Daniel Terdiman: [http://news.com.com/Growing+pains+for+Wikipedia/2100-1025_3-5981119.html "Growing Pains for Wikipedia"], CNET News.com, December 5, 2005. Discusses Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' decision to require users to login to create new articles. * Steve Rubel: [http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20051201WikipediaistheNextGoogle.html Wikipedia Is The Next Google], webpronews.com, December 1, 2005. *"[http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69759,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 Wikipedia Tightens the Reins]", Associated Press / [http://www.wired.com Wired News], [[December 5]], 2005 *"[http://www.chaser.com.au/content/view/2916/32/ That Wikipedia entry about me is a bare-faced lie]", op-ed supposedly by famous Australian broadcaster [[John Laws]], published in satirical newspaper [[The Chaser (newspaper)|The Chaser]], December 6 2005 *[http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10748 wiki-whatdia?], Poynteronline, December 7, 2005. Posting of a memo from ''[[New York Times]]'' business editor Larry Ingrassia. "We shouldn't be using [Wikipedia] to check any information that goes into the newspaper." [http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5988267.html] * "In praise of ... the Wikipedia", "Wikipedia bans anonymous contributors to prevent libel". Leader and associated story in ''[[The Guardian]]''. [[December 8]], 2005. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1661567,00.html] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1661693,00.html] *:"The Wikipedia is one of the wonders of the internet ... Those who think its entries should be taken with a pinch of salt should never forget that there is still plenty of gold dust there." * "I Am Not a Thief" [Jimbo Wales], [[Newsweek]] International Special Edition: Issues 2006, p 83., [[December 8]], 2005 ** Summary: Wikipedia shows: information wants to be free, and the current copyright laws have bad intents. Shows good examples where the law slows or halts advancement, education or creativity. ** ''"Copyright reform is not about kids' stealing music. It is about recognising the astounding possibilities inherent in the honest and intelligent use of new technologies."'' *"[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1916781,00.html Unreliable (adj): log on and see]", ''[[The Times]]'', [[December 9]], 2005, p.21 and trailed on front page. Column piece by Rosemary Righter who claimed to have creatred a new user mickmouse. **Summary: Wikipedia's open attitiude to editing deprives it of accountability and accuracy, and calling the site an encyclopaedia misleads its users. ** ''"In the wacky world of Wikipedia, authority, scrupulousness and accuracy are missing."'' (trailer from front page of paper) ** Author suggests the missing bits in the Wikipedia jigsaw logo are ''"accountability, authority, scholarly credentials, accuracy and scrupulousness."'' *"[http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5988267.html Wikipedia's open-source label conundrum]," CNET News.com, December 9, 2005. *[http://www.asharqalawsat.com/details.asp?section=3&article=337338&issue=9873 "An encyclopeadia resolves to change its editorial policy after publishing wrong info about involvement of editor in Kennedy's assassination"] Asharq Al Awsat, December 9, 2005, first page (in Arabic). Major London based Arabic newspaper covers [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_tightens_editorial_control John Seigenthaler] incident. Remarks that questioned article remained 132 days online until the error was spotted. Mr. Wales' statement also quoted. *{{cite news|first=Katharine Q.|last=Seelye|pages= |title=A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank|date=December 11, 2005|publisher=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/business/media/11web.html}} **Sunday, December 11, 2005, page 33. Account of the exposure of the author of the Siegenthaler libel on Wikipedia: **[[Brian Chase]] of [[Nashville, Tennessee]] admitted that he falsified information in a Wikipedia entry about [[John Seigenthaler Sr.]], a former editor of ''[[The Tennessean]]'' in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]. Until [[December 9]], Chase was an operations manager at a small delivery company in Nashville. Chase told Seigenthaler on December 9 that he had written the material "suggesting that Seigenthaler had been involved in the assassinations of [[John F. Kennedy|John]] and [[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert F. Kennedy]]. Wikipedia, a nonprofit venture that is the world's biggest encyclopedia, is written and edited by thousands of volunteers, and mistakes are expected to be caught by users." **(Chase was under the impression he was hitting a [[shock site]] with his gag, but did not realize Wikipedia had world-wide exposure. Chase resigned from his job to avoid repercussions with the use of his company's PC for the prank.) <!--**"...[Chase] also found that he was slowly being cornered in cyberspace, thanks to the sleuthing efforts of [[Public Information Research|Daniel Brandt]], 57, of San Antonio, who makes his living as a book indexer. Mr. Brandt has been a frequent critic of Wikipedia and started [http://www.wikipedia-watch.org an anti-Wikipedia Web site] in September after reading what he said was a false entry about himself."--> **"...[Brandt] traced the computer used to make the Wikipedia entry to the delivery company in Nashville ... [and]... called the company. [He] told employees there about the Wikipedia problem but was not able to learn anything definitive." **"...[Brandt] then sent an e-mail message to the company, asking for information about its courier services. A response bore the same [[Internet Protocol]] address that was left by the creator of the Wikipedia entry, offering further evidence of a connection." **"...A call by a ''[[New York Times]]'' reporter to the delivery company on [December 8] made employees nervous, Mr. Chase later told Mr. Seigenthaler. On [December 9], Mr. Chase hand-delivered a letter to Mr. Seigenthaler's office, confessing what he had done, and later they talked at length." **Brandt's site did not currently contain this information as of 01:14, 12 December 2005 (UTC). **[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/12/wikipedia_no_responsibility/print.html There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility'] Andrew Orlowski for [[The Register]], Monday 12th December 2005 14:25 GMT (well, there's an entry for [[moral responsibility]] now) *[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_351.shtml], [[AUDIO: Wales interviewed about Seigenthaler incident]] The Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) posts MP3 audio clips of an hour interview conducted Dec. 12, 2005 with WikiMedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales regarding the John Seigenthaler bio controversy and other topics. *[[Kenneth Neil Cukier]], 'In defence of creativity', ''RSA Journal'' (the journal of the [[Royal Society of Arts]]), December 2005, page 5 states "Wikipedia, for example, is a top-quality online encyclopedia , which is created by users." *[[Jen Sorensen]], ''[[Slowpoke (comic)|Slowpoke]]'' (comic strip), December 2005 <small>[http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jls6c/strips/enlightenmentCOL.gif]</small>. *:Woman to man, in an imaginary movie: "Darling, when I saw your Wikipedia entry on the [[Horsehead Nebula]], I knew I had to have you." *Steve Prentice, "Participation is the latest watchword", ''[[Financial Times]]'', [[December 14]], [[2005]] **"Want to give something back? Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects." * [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/online-encyclopedias-put-to-the-test/2005/12/14/1134500913345.html Online encyclopedias put to the test By Stephen Cauchi in The Age (Australia) December 15, 2005] - About [[Wikipedia:External peer review/Nature December 2005|study in ''Nature'']] comparing Wikipedia and Britannica. **The ''Nature'' article is at [http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html] and an editorial in the same issue says "Researchers should read Wikipedia cautiously and amend it enthusiastically" [http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438890a.html].-[[User:Gadfium|gadfium]] 23:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC) * Dan Goodin, "Science Journal: Wikipedia Pretty Accurate", Asscioated Press, December 14, 2005 ** Printed in 112+ outlets, including [[Aljazeera]], [[Business Week]], [[CBC News]], [[China Post]], [[CNN International]], [[Forbes]], [[MSNBC]], [[Toronto Star]], [[Washington Post]], [[Wired News]], and [[USA Today]]. *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm Wikipedia survives research test], [[BBC]] News Online, [[December 15]] 2005. **Reporting on the ''Nature'' investigation. "The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows." * [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1933568,00.html Times Online December 15, 2005 Wikipedia hit by surge in spoof articles By Simon Freeman] - article claims IRC coordinated attack on Wikipedia. *[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0512150209dec15,1,7151266.column?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed Wikipedia: Raising perhaps more questions than answers], Steve Johnson, ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', [[15 December]] 2005. *[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5055388 Assessing Wikipedia's Accuracy], [[National Public Radio]], [[All Things Considered]], December 15, 2005. **Interview with [[Nature (journal)]] reporter, Mark Peplow, about the article [http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html] in the December 15, 2005 issue. *Patti Waldmeir, "Allow libel to slip through the net for the sake of freedom", ''Financial Times'', [[December 15]], [[2005]] *[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/12/16 I Have The Power], ''[[Penny Arcade (webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', December 16, 2005. *S. R., "Неслана шала са Википедије", ''[[Politika]]'', [[December 16]], 2005. **[An article about Seigenthaler issue] *[[Dan Tynan|Tynan, Dan]]. "[http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ttpcworld/20051216/tc_techtues_pcworld/123923 Winners and Losers of 2005]". ''Tech Tuesday - Yahoo! News''. [[December 16]], 2005. Rated as '''both''' the "Winner" and "Loser of the Year". *:Article praised Wikipedia as being "<nowiki>[h]</nowiki>eavily linked, authoritative, and constantly updated," and that "<nowiki>[y]</nowiki>ou can't do a Web search on any major topic without this wiki popping up near the top..." It, however, questioned the accuracy of Wikipedia, citing the [http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Wikipedia_gets_Swift_Boated_1129.html Swiftboat controversy] and [[John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy|Seigenthaler Incident]]. *[http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/12/17/wikipedia_academia_and_seigenthaler.php "Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler"] [http://www.corante.com/about.php ''Corante'']— a piece which is rather more thoughtful than many articles following the Seigenthaler story have been. December 17, 2005. *"It’s a Wiki world out there", ''MercatorNet'' [[17 December]],[[2005]]. Attempts to categorize disputes between fans of Wikipedia and Britannica as post-modernism vs modernism and shows that surprises lurk beneath the apparently objective authorship of Britannica's entries. [http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=199 MercatorNet] *Michael Earl, "Wikipedia's struggle to govern a knowledge democracy", ''Financial Times'', [[December 19]], [[2005]] **Lead sentence: "The news that Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is tightening its rules has lessons for policymakers, information providers and information users in the digital age." *Chris Nuttall, "Wikipedia plans site shake-up to counter 'abuse'", ''Financial Times'', [[December 19]], [[2005]] **Lead sentence: "Wikipedia, the online user-written encyclopaedia that has come under fire for inaccuracies, is to introduce a more traditional fixed version of its contents in an effort to increase its reliability." *Lisa Vaas, "Wikipedia Erects Accuracy Firewall", eWeek, [[December 19]], 2005. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1903728,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 **An article about the new page protection policy. *"Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'" [[20 December]], [[2005]] at [[Cnet]] An alternative encyclopedia: the [[Digital Universe]] short story (maybe: intro) [http://news.com.com/Wikipedia+alternative+aims+to+be+PBS+of+the+Web/2100-1038_3-5999200.html?tag=nefd.lede C|net] *Fry, Jason. "[http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113450010488821460-LrYQrY_jrOtOK3IiwMcglEq6aiE_20061223.html Wikipedia's Woes]: Tumultuous Weeks for Internet Encyclopedia Bring Furor Over Anonymity, Accountability," ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' [[December 19]], [[2005]]. Summarizes the heightened interest in Wikipedia that resulted from the Seigenthaler controversy. Includes a '''poll''' -- vote for the encyclopedia you use first. *Reardon, Marguerite. "[http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1038_3-6003105.html New Yorkers cope with transit strike]", ''[[New York Times]]'' December 20, 2005. **Mentions Wikipedia article on [[2005 New York City transit strike]]. * "[http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,391665,00.html The Universe Goes Digital]." ''[[Der Spiegel]] Online'', [[21 December]] [[2005]] **"If you're looking for information, you'll probably find it on Wikipedia. But will it be correct? Now, there's a more reliable source on the Web. Meet The Digital Universe." *[http://NYTimes.com/business ''NYTimes'', ''Personal Business'' section], ''What's Online''. "Insider Editing at Wikipedia" ''[[New York Times]]'', Saturday [[December 24]], [[2005]], page B5. <small>[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/technology/24online.ready.html]</small> **Cartoon of [[Jimbo Wales|Jimbo]] deleting [[Larry Sanger|Larry]]'s name from Jimbo Wale's bio page. Incorrectly depicts Jimbo as having spiky hair and a sparse beard. Reviews "fever pitch" debate, mentioning Jimbo's edits, Larry's rejoinders, the Siegenthaler article, and the ''Nature'' article which concluded that Wikipedia's science entries were only slightly less accurate than Brittannica's. **"...Still, Wikipedia, which dwarfs traditional encyclopedias in scope, faces the ''potential'' for inaccuracy or abuse. ... But Wikipedia's weakness is also its greatest strength. ... With thousands of editors, ... errors and vandalism are usually cleaned up quickly. And entries are living organisms, constantly updated. ..." *Rogoway, Mike. [http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1134801095290920.xml&coll=7&thispage=1 "The Web's wizard of working together"] - ''[[The Oregonian]]'', [[December 19]], 2005 *:This profile of [[Ward Cunningham]] discusses Wikipedia, including his caution against overemphasis on problems like the [[John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy|Seigenthaler episode]]. *Bowen, David. "[http://news.ft.com/cms/s/77223e7e-73c3-11da-ab91-0000779e2340.html Web effect on the truth]." ''Financial Times'', [[December 23]], [[2005]] **"This has all become much more relevant with the explosion in our midst of blogging, and also the increasing profile of Wikipedia. We no longer have to know how to set up a website to get our opinions out there – blogs are easy to set up on a standard template, while Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) lets us contribute to or edit any encyclopedia entry we want – there are 850,000 so far, and the only editing we might get comes from other users. Is this freedom, or madness? **"With blogs and Wikipedia, there is no editing or fact-checking in the traditional sense. When I was a journalist, an editor would read my piece, ask me to change or check things, then pass it to a sub-editor, who would carry out a double-check and query anything he or she was unhappy with. It wasn’t perfect, but it made it hard for me to write complete rubbish (usually). Bloggers and Wiki contributors can write nonsense – the good news is that their peers can come and point that out, but what if the first guy was right all along? And how are we, the outsiders to know? Recently, someone adjusted the biography of a journalist in Wikipedia to suggest he was linked to the Kennedy assassination. He did it as a joke, but how were we to know that?" *Helman, Scott. [http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/12/27/politicians_search_for_the_web_advantage/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Business+News "Politicians search for the Web advantage"] - ''[[Boston Globe]]'', [[December 27]], 2005, p. B1 (Wikipedia mentioned in the continuation on p. B4). *:Four paragraphs recounting how, after [[Mitt Romney]] announced that he wouldn't run for re-election as Governor of Massachusetts, there was increased scrutiny and NPOV editing of the article about the newly prominent Lieutenant Governor, [[Kerry Healey]]. The online version links to http://wikipedia.org/ (not to the English-language Main Page). *"Resolved for 2006: a few good ideas" [[Toronto Star]] editorial: "Wikipedia users: Resolve to remember that in the information business you get what you pay for."[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1135985416042], Dec 30, 2005. *Feature: ''Identity Question for world's encyclopaedia'', by Rhys Blakely, ''[[The Times]]'', London 30 Dec, 2005, p 45. Longer version at [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/media] :'It's not just this crazy place on the internet where people post nonsense'.
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