Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Press coverage 2005 (section)

==July==
* Katherine Q. Seelye.  "Hands-On Readers: Why Newspapers are Betting on Audience Participation". 4 July, 2005. ''[[New York Times]]''. pp C1, C4.
*:"...Recently, The Los Angeles Times briefly opened its editorial page so readers could go online and insert their own thoughts in editorials. The approach was patterned after Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia made up of contributions from anyone with something to say. ..."

* Don Marti, "Editors' Choice Awards 2005: Nontechnical or Community Web Site: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia", ''[http://www.linuxjournal.com Linux Journal]'', August 2005, pp. 86f.
*:"Robert calls Wikipedia, 'probably the single greatest thing on earth.' It's hard to comprehend an encyclopedia with 1.5 million articles and editions in 195 languages, so just visit the site and click 'random page.'"

* Dvorak, John C. "The Wikification of Knowledge"  ''[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1835857,00.asp?kc=PCYH104039TX1B0000663 PC Magazine]'', July 2005.
*:"The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration."

*Andy Carvin ,"Turning Wikipedia into an Asset for Schools " ''[http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/acarvin/view?PostID=4746 Digital Divide Network]''  talks about using Wikipedia as a basis for a school project to validate the facts in an article. This could be a way of developing childrens research skills as well as improving Wikipedia. July 11th, 2005 @ 10:14PM
*:"Get enough classrooms doing this, you kill several birds with one stone: Wikipedia's information gets better, students help give back to the Net by improving the accuracy of an important online resource, and teachers have a way to make lemons into lemonade, turning Wikipedia from a questionable information source to a powerful tool for information literacy. "

*Read, Brock. "Romantic Poetry Meets 21st-Century Technology". ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', p. A35.  July 15, 2005.  <small>[http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i45/45a03501.htm]</small>
*:"Wikipedia has become especially popular as a research tool for college students—much to the chagrin of some professors, who consider the site's often-unsourced content to be dubious at best.  Others, like Mr. Morgan, argue that wiki readers can find plenty of worthwhile content, as long as they scrutinize it as carefully as they would material on regular web sites."

*Brown, Russell, ''[[New Zealand Listener]]'', July 23-29 2005, pp 52-53, ''We Are All Reporters''.
*:"One of the more notable responses [to the [[7 July London bombings]]] was that of the free online encyclopedia ''Wikipedia'', which had a work-in-progress page up as soon as the news broke, and, through the contributions of many volunteers, quickly established a resource that was better than most news sources. Think of that: an encyclopedia as breaking news."

*Gurvey, Scott. [http://www.nbr.com/transcript/2005/transcript072105.html NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT], New York. Thursday, July 21, 2005.
:*"Some people are afraid of products which are free, but you would be making a big mistake if you avoided the Wikipedia, one of the most remarkable creations on the Internet. A wiki is a web site users can both contribute to and edit. "Wiki wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian. The Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with more than 1.6 million articles under active development in over 120 languages. The site gets more than 60 million hits per day. The Wikipedia`s article about itself admits that since anyone can edit the content, inaccuracy and vandalism is a problem. But the community of users polices that sort of activity so the content tends to be self-repairing. Volunteer editors strive to make sure the articles are objective. In addition to the usual encyclopedia topics, the Wikipedia contains a wide array of social and cultural entries. The Wikipedia is not a refereed academic publication, but it is a fascinating example of collaborative development and social interaction growing live, virtually before your eyes on the Internet. Scott Gurvey, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, New York."

* Wikipedia is 'Site of the Fortnight' in ''[[Computer Active]]'', Britain's top computer mag, , No 194, 31 July-3 August 2005, p 82.
*: ...The work of a dedicated team of editors means that 1.6 million articles - 600,000 in English and the others in 194 other language editions - are largely accurate and clear, and those that are not are clearly indicated as such.

*Heffernan, Virginia. "The Podcast as a New Podium". ''[[New York Times]]'', July 22, 2005, p. E1. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/22/arts/22heff.html?]
*:"Admit it. You don't know what podcasts are. Your plan is to do that thing of half-reading tech articles and waiting in denial until it's scarily mandatory that you really understand it -for instance, you have to create your own podcast for some random reason in one hour - and then desperately turning to [[podcasting|Wikipedia]] or a teenage relative for a last-minute explanation."

*Seebach, Linda. "How to get some help with math- wiki-wiki". ''Rocky Mountain News'', July 23, 2005. [http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_3947551,00.html]
*:"For a test, I decided to look up [[Nicolas Bourbaki]], whose mathematical works we studied in grad school. He seemed especially suitable because he's not a single authority but a collective pseudonym for a group of highly influential French mathematicians. A standard encyclopedia had a couple of hundred words - though it did deliciously describe him as "a nonexistent but very clever polycephalic French mathematician. Wikipedia's article was nearly 2,000 words, thorough and well-informed, with rich links to original sources.

::"Whoever wrote it, t(he)y knew what they were talking about. "

*Boxer, Sarah. "Internet's Best Friend (Let Me Count the Ways)". ''New York Times'', July 30, 2005. A brief mention in an article about cats' and dogs' movements on the net.
*:"On Wikipedia there's already a ''dog poop girl'' entry logged, and a movement to delete it."