Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Press coverage 2005 (section)

==May==
*Boutin, Paul. "Galaxy Quest: Wikipedia is a real-life Hitchhiker's Guide: huge, nerdy, and imprecise." ''Slate''.  May 3, 2005. <small>[http://slate.msn.com/id/2117942]</small>.
*:"But don't people use encyclopedias to look up stuff they don't know anything about? Even if a reference tool is 98 percent right, it's not useful if you don't know which 2 percent is wrong."
*:Boutin notes that [[Encarta]] recently hired 6 people to handle the anticipated editorial work due to readers posting improvements to the articles.

*Sartwell, Crispin. "Wikipedia: See 'Information,' 'Amazing,' 'Anarchy'". ''Los Angeles Times''. May 4, 2005. <small>[http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0504-27.htm]</small>
*:"Encyclopedias &mdash; whether paper (Britannica, for example) or software (Encarta) &mdash; are intended to be representations of the scope of human knowledge at the moment of their publication. This idea, of course, has a long history. But the most interesting thing about it may be its future, as represented by the magnificent, nonprofit Wikipedia...What is perhaps most fascinating about Wikipedia is its demonstration in practical anarchy. It is an ever-shifting, voluntary, collaborative enterprise. If it is in the long run successful, it would show that people can make amazing things together without being commanded, constrained, taxed, bribed or punished...if Wikipedia grows into the greatest reference work ever made, it will suggest that great things are possible when you merely let people go and see what happens."

*Amend, Bill. "[[FoxTrot]]." May 7, 2005 <small>[http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2005/05/07/]</small>
*:"Wikipedia: It's this totally cool online encyclopedia that lets users update and edit its information.  It's the greatest thing.  Watch.  Pretend you want to know about [[warthog]]s."  "Is that a picture of our sister?"

*Clemens, Walter C., Jr.  "Without Books on Paper, So Much Is Lost" (letter to the editor).  ''New York Times''.  May 17, 2005.  <small>[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/opinion/l17library.html]</small>
*:"Last but not least, there is the problem of evaluating sources. Many seem to regard the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as no worse than a standard, hard-copy encyclopedia. One of my students thought he had discovered the truth about Russia from a Trotskyite newspaper he found on the Web. Who was Trotsky? He did not know or care."
*"Stat of the week - Wiki wonder". ''The Guardian'' (online section) <small>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1486608,00.html]</small>
*:"Open source encyclopedia Wikipedia is now the second most popular reference source on the web, according to new statistics."

*"Pilot #3: The Wikipedia", pilot of show "Open Source", hosted by [[Christopher Lydon]].  May 19, 2005. <small>[http://www.radioopensource.org/2005/05/16/pilot-3-the-wikipedia/]</small>

*"It's a Wiki, Wiki World," by Chris Taylor.  Time Magazine, .  [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1066904,00.html May 29, 2005 (online version)], June 6 (print version).