Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Press coverage 2005 (section)

==March==
*Krowne, Aaron. "The FUD based encyclopedia: Dismantling the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt aimed at Wikipedia and other free knowledge sources." ''Free Software''. March 1, 2005. <small>[http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/]</small>
*:"In this article, I respond to [[Robert McHenry]]'s anti-Wikipedia piece entitled 'The Faith-Based Encyclopedia.' I argue that McHenry's points are contradictory and incoherent and that his rhetoric is selective, dishonest and misleading. I also consider McHenry&'s points in the context of all Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP), showing how they are part of a Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) campaign against CBPP. Further, I introduce some principles, which will help to explain why and how CBPP projects can succeed, and I discuss alternative ways they may be organized, which will address certain concerns."
*"First Two Laws of Commons-Based Peer Production." ''Many 2 Many''. February 27, 2005. <small>[http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/02/27/first_two_laws_of_commonsbased_peer_production.php]</small> (note that time zone differences account for hat seems to be the posting of the response to the original article before the article itself)
*Marson, Ingrid. "Wikipedia needs help to keep growing." ''[[ZDNet]]''. March 1, 2005. <small>[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39189592,00.htm]</small>
*:"The team running Wikipedia has urged the open source development community to lend their support to help the encyclopaedia project grow and to combat Web bots that are damaging its content.
*:"In the opening talk at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels on Saturday, Wikipedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales urged the assembled audience of open source developers to get involved with the online encyclopaedia. He said Wikipedia has the physical resources to handle the extra traffic, but needs technical people to manage these servers."
*Pink, Daniel. "The Book Stops Here." ''[[Wired magazine|Wired]]''. March 2, 2005.  Pink, Daniel. "The Book Stops Here". Pages: Cover - "Wikipedia: the self-organizing library of the future", 007, 124-129, 136, 139. <small>[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html?tw=wn_tophead_4]</small>
*:This in-depth commentary is Wired magazine's [[/An encyclopedia that is alive|first print article on Wikipedia]].  Pink attended the [[Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC1|December meetup in New York]] as part of his research. 
*Del Arte, Alonso. "Fusion: Although current, Wikipepedia ''[sic]'' not always reliable source of information." ''[[The South End]]''. March 2, 2005. <small>[http://www.southend.wayne.edu/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1053]</small>
*:Surveys the views of Wikipedia by various professors who lecture at [[Wayne State University]]. The same issues as normal are raised: Some think it's OK to use for undergraduates, definitely not for postgraduate work, lack of proper academic peer review mechanisms issues of unbalanced and patchy content, questions the priorities of Wikipedia authors. Quotes from article:
*::"[History Professor Eric Ash] made up an example of a Web site on [[Charles Darwin]] written by Joe Smith.
*::"'I don't know who Joe Smith is. Joe Smith could be a fundamentalist who sees Charles Darwin as the Antichrist,' Ash speculated. Such points of view do occasionally get into Wikipedia. The history of the article on Charles Darwin shows a serious effort by several Wikipedia users to keep the article neutral in point of view." 
*::"Ash recalled that one time, before giving a lecture on a novel by 19th century author [[Samuel Smiles]], he turned to Wikipedia to see if he could find some supplemental information.
*::"Ash said, 'Wikipedia had one screen of information. I learned he had written other books' besides the one he was lecturing about."
*"Dictionary of National Biography: $15,000, buggy -- better than Wikipedia?". March 6, 2005. ''BoingBoing''. <small>[http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/06/dictionary_of_nation.html]</small>
*:The latest salvo in the Wikipedia-versus-the-world wars: the new edition of the Oxford University Press Dictionary of National Biography&mdash;ringing in at nearly $15,000&mdash;is riddled with factual errors. If these errors had appeared in Wikipedia entries, its likely that they would have been fixed in short order -- and once they were discovered by the outraged experts quoted in this ''Observer'' article, they certainly would be fixed. ¿Quien es mas macho?

* Terdiman, Daniel. "Wiki Becomes a Way of Life". March 8, 2005. ''Wired News''. <small>[http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/03/66814?currentPage=all Article link]</small>
*:Wired Online has done a feature story about the most active Wikipedia users, based on [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|old data]]. It profiles [[User:Charles Matthews|Charles Matthews]], [[User:UtherSRG|Stacey Greenstein]], [[User:Ram-Man|Derek Ramsey]] and his [[User:Rambot|Rambot]], [[User:Maveric149|Daniel Mayer]], [[User:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]] and [[User:Seth Ilys|Seth Ilys]].
*::Slashdot covered this in [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/1419245&tid=95].

* Minow, Nell. "Help children learn critical thinking skills". March 9, 2005. ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' <small>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/reviews/chi-0503090019mar09,1,823223.story?coll=chi-technologyreviews-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true]</small>.
*:"One reason Google is so popular is it uses a formula for ranking search results that is likely -- though not guaranteed -- to put the most reliable ones at the top. Google also gets points for putting its "sponsored links" -- sites that pay to be listed -- off to the side and labeling them clearly so that users can tell they are ads.
*:"But not all search engines play by those rules, and children need to know that. They also need to understand that no search engine guarantees the information it points to is factual or even unbiased.
*:"The same applies to some popular online reference sites like the Internet movie database at imdb.com, and http://en.wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia. The entries in both are written and assembled by amateurs and volunteers -- which doesn't mean the entries are wrong, but it doesn't mean they are right, either.
*:" A good point of discussion with teens as well as younger children who use the Internet for research is how a Web site establishes credibility. One place to start: Look on a site's main page for a link labeled something like, 'about us.'
*:"On Wikipedia, the link '[[Wikipedia:About|About Wikipedia]]' is at the bottom of the home page. It takes readers to a detailed, annotated page that explains the Wikipedia project, among other things."

* Kinzie, Susan. "Wiping Out the Blackboard". March 11, 2005; Page B01. ''[[The Washington Post]]''. <small>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html]</small>
*:"Early e-mail lists, newsgroups and chat rooms were ephemeral, like a passing conversation, said Steve Jones, a communication professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Now computers and networks are fast enough that many people can share text, videos, sound and art and work on them together, he said, building a body of knowledge over time. Wikis, including interactive encyclopedia Wikipedia, have been around for several years but they're just on the cusp of becoming mainstream; as the technology improves, they're popping up in a few classrooms and offices, and people are finding all sorts of uses for them."

* "Remixing the Fourth Estate". March 13, 200. ''AlterNet''. <small>[http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/03/003186.html]</small>
*:"<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Dan Gillmor]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> praised technological developments like the Wikipedia -- an online encyclopedia that anyone can change and update. Contrary to early criticism that the Wiki encourages biased speech or off-topic rants, it is actually a self-correcting phenomenon. For every opinion presented, there is a reader with the opposite opinion with the power to change the statement. What results, Gillmor argues, is the least-biased conversation, for the end result must be a mutually agreed-upon truth. Gillmor lauded our move toward a "remix culture," and summed up his point thusly: "eventually, grass roots media will be the norm."

* Procter, Darryl. "Web gems". March 14, 2005. ''Rocky Mountain News''. <small>[http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/technology/article/0,1299,DRMN_49_3619092,00.html]</small>
*:Listed under "Research".

* Johnson, Steve. "'Old' media, bloggers square off at conference". March 14, 2005. ''Chicago Tribune'' <small>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/reviews/chi-0503140014mar14,1,4104611.column?coll=chi-technologyreviews-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true]</small>
*:" Among the more concrete suggestions participants offered traditional journalistic enterprises: make their news archives freely available, which would help their work show up on search engines and get linked to by other sites, instead of only offering them free for a couple of weeks, as is common practice; and consider making their Web sites more interactive, allowing for some form of reader comment and elaboration on the news stories, similar to the model established by Wikipedia, the free, online, openly edited encyclopedia."

* Horton, Jane. "Keeping positive in the face of climate change". March 14, 2005. ''digital divide network'' <small>[http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=368]</small>.
*:"Since this software doesn&#8217;t permit us to collaboratively add to articles (unlike in wikipedia) I suggest that you add what helps you (if you feel so moved) as comments to this article so we can build up a communal resource together to help us from being overwhelmed."

* Benfield, Chris. "Phoenix like comeback for crooner Tony". March 15, 2005. ''Yorkshire Post''. <small>[http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=971247]</small>
*:"[[Tony Christie|Christie]] only drops into Conisbrough nowadays to see his family. But he gets a mention as the town's most famous son in the on-line encylopaedia Wikipedia.

* Richardson, Will. "Understanding Wikipedia". March 15, 2005. ''Ed-Tech Insider''. <small>[http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2005/03/000727.php]</small>
*:If you're still trying to "get" what Wikipedia is all about, you might want to check out this [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html extremely well done deconstruction] of a [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Wikipedia entry]] done by Jon Udell.

* Thompson, Bill. "Write Your Own Encyclopedia?". March 16, 2005. ''BBC''. <small> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/column/] </small>
*:"Wikipedia is great for getting a general overview of a subject and for figuring out where else to look, and often a lot faster than just searching the whole web for the word you're interested in."

* Frykholm, Daniel. "Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet, Pioneer Says". March 17, 2005. ''Reuters''. <small>[http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=7932814]</small>
*:Berners-Lee's original vision of the Web was as a resource for collaboration. He said that so far it had been "a big disappointment" in this respect, although exceptions such as "wikis" -- essentially interactive online note pads -- showed its potential. "Wikis in general are great examples of how people want to be creative and not just suck in information," he told the seminar, pointing to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as the most advanced development in this area.

* "Wikipedia nears half million article mark". March 17, 2005. ''The Inquirer'' <small>[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21909]</small>
*: "ONLINE ENCYCLOPAEDIA the Wiki is close to reaching half a million English articles online. The Wiki relies on volunteers and interested parties to add, edit and update articles, and has become a very useful resource since it was launched. According to its English page, here, there are currently 499,690 English articles on the resource. And it also has a news section which people can edit and add to as well. Lots of people would like to edit INQ articles for lots of different reasons. But you can't. OK?"

* "Reference revolution" . March 18, 2005. ''News@nature.com'' <small>[http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050314/full/050314-17.html]</small>
*:Roxanne Khamsi interviews Wikipedia Jimmy Wales. 
*:"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales offers a whole new species of information online." Relationship of Wikispecies to Wikipedia discussed.

* Stice, Carolyn. "A Man with a Wiki: An interview with Jimmy Wales." March 18, 2005. ''The Ester Republic''. <small>[http://www.esterrepublic.com/Issues/contents71.html] </small>
*:The founder of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other free-content online resources talks about the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and explains what the heck a wiki is.

* "Move over, Google". March 20, 2005. pg. 14 ''Sunday Life'' (inset of the Australian ''Sunday Telegraph'').
*:"The latest online phenomenon is the free encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), which boasts more than 1.1 million entries and is growing by 7 per cent per month. Wikipedia is fast (''splutter'') and easy to use nd if you spot something you don't like, you can change it. That's because all entries are written and edited by members of the online community, creating a constantly evolving site. The democratic concept isn't exactly watertight, with debates raging over accuracy and some subjects being shut down but mostly it's a solid source of info on just about anything."

* [[Robert McHenry|McHenry, Robert]]. "Knowledge in U.S.: I know I'm right and you're wrong". March 21, 2005. ''Chicago Tribune''. <small>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0503200191mar20,1,26199.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed&ctrack=3&cset=true]</small>
*:A similar hyperbole surrounds such projects as the Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia open to all. The Wikipedia's apologists emphasize the great number of volunteers who have taken part in the project and the number of entries they have contributed. They emphasize also the communal nature of the undertaking, in which anyone with a better understanding of a subject, or a bigger ax to grind, can edit what someone else has created. Their prime article of faith is that this openness will inevitably lead to a high level of accuracy and quality.

* Price, Gary. "Wikipedia Plus Dynamic Search Term Suggestions = WikiWax". March 21, 2005. ''Search Engine Watch''. <small>[http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050321-193410]</small>
*:Surfwax has just launched its [http://www.wikiwax.com/ LookAhead search term suggestion technology] combined with Wikipedia into a new site calledWikiWax. Over 600,000 Wikipedia index terms are listed with more than 2,000,000 LookAhead rotations available. Remember, you'll see LookAhead offering suggested entries prior to clicking the search button.

* Bates, Mary Ellen. "Just the Facts, Please". March 22, 2005. ''Search Engine Watch''. <small>[http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3491861]></small>
*:Article that talks about [[answers.com]] and Wikipedia. Refers to [[Wikipedia]] as a source of information.

* Matei, Sorin Adam. "The Internet, the water spring and Adrian Paunescu". March 22, 2005. ''Evenimentul Zilei online''. <small>[http://www.expres.ro/english/?news_id=182190]</small>
*:Article originally in Romanian starts with a description of the ''[[The New Yorker]]'''s "On the Internet no-one knows you're a dog" cartoon, describes Wikipedia and mentions the accuracy problem. It then describes in detail a disputed article on Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu ([[:ro:Adrian P&#259;unescu]]):
*:"A user for the first time interested in this issue creates a biography and includes in it what he knows: Adrian Paunescu is a famous Romanian poet. Another elderly user would probably add that Paunescu was a poet close to the communist power. A fan of Flacara literary circle might erase this information, saying that Adrian Paunescu was a patriotic poet who contributed to the relaunching of "Horea's spear" song. Later on, a critic added the fact that Adrian Paunescu was a political chameleon after 1989. This contribution can also be erased, let's say, by a member of the former ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), who includes the poet, again, among the brilliant minds of the nation. This wikipedia page isn't a joke, it really exists (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_P%C4%83unescu). From it, the nationalist poet, deeply involved in the games of the communist power in the 1980s, appears as a disinterested patriot. He is presented as being persecuted by the communist-era political police Securitate and as a "supporter of the naturist medicine in the era of the advancement of chemistry". The secret of this positive biography? The last contributor of the biography of the bard from Birca was...the son of the poet, Andrei Paunescu." ...
*:"The wiki system perfectly embodies the drama of searching for information through the Internet. Although plenty and necessary, information isn't better or worse than it was its last user/creator. Internet is like a water spring. It is a quick way to quench your thirst. The problem is that you never know who was the last one who drank from it: a man or a dog."
*:''Note: Since the publication of this article, the Adrian Paunescu article appears to have been extensively truncated and vandalised.''