Wikipedia:Press coverage 2003

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Wikipedia:Press coverage archive for 2003

Contents 1 Wikipedia as a source 1.1 January 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 July 1.7 August 1.8 September 1.9 October 1.10 November 1.11 December 2 About Wikipedia 2.1 English 2.2 Bulgarian 2.3 Croatian 2.4 Danish 2.5 Dutch 2.6 Esperanto 2.7 Finnish 2.8 French 2.9 German 2.10 Hungarian 2.11 Indonesian 2.12 Italian 2.13 Japanese - 日本語 2.14 Korean 2.15 Norwegian 2.16 Polish 2.17 Portuguese 2.18 Russian 2.19 Serbian 2.20 Spanish 2.21 Swedish

[edit] Wikipedia as a source

Several newspapers and magazines have cited Wikipedia as a source. This is of course a great vote of confidence, but also brings with it a responsibility. Was French toast really called German toast before? Was the Mesopotamian plain really called the Fertile Crescent?

Wikipedia as a press source

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Some of these articles were found using Google News and AltaVista News.

[edit] January

• "The Straight Dope's column on leetspeak" (The Straight Dope, Internet, January 10, 2003) references Wikipedia as a source for further information on leet phonetics.

[edit] March

• "We'll fight our own way, says UK general" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, March 11, 2003) Article links to Suez Crisis
• "Liberal Slant's column on anti-French feelings in the US after the attack on Iraq" (Liberal Slant, Internet, March 22, 2003) link missing
• "Back to Babylon" (The Age, Australia, March 29, 2003) A look at Western civilization starting in the Iraq region. "According to Wikipedia's coverage of the history of Iraq, "the Mesopotamian plain was called the Fertile Crescent" incorporating "present-day Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq and south-eastern Turkey"."

[edit] April

• "Woman may have founded ancient Rome" (Daily Telegraph online, UK, April 22, 2003) links to Stesichorus.

[edit] May

• "Minister in fees row snubs 'new' universities" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, May 22, 2003) links to Coalition of Modern Universities (which doesn't exist)
• "Media blamed for exaggerating loss of antiquities" (Telegraph online, Internet, May 22, 2003) Links to National Museum of Iraq
• "Some words can make a war cry foul" (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, May 28, 2003) "According to the web encyclopedia, Wikipedia, during the Cold War WMD referred only to nuclear weapons." Referring to Weapons_of_mass_destruction article.

[edit] June

• "Prince asks scientists to look into 'grey goo'" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, June 5, 2003) Article links to grey goo
• "Actress's friend faces extradition over terrorism" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, June 10, 2003) links to Akhmed Zakayev
• Ford Motor Company profiles (Associated Press, United States, June 2003) Cited Wikipedia as source along with others. Used in Ford centennial: A family legacy (Naples Daily News, United States, June 15, 2003) and "Thumbnails of Ford family and top executives" (Boston Globe, United States, June 6, 2003)
• "IRA 'provoked troops on Bloody Sunday'" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, June 16, 2003) Article links to Provisional Irish Republican Army
• "Blair to phase out Lord Chancellor" (The Globe and Mail, Canada, June 20, 2003) Cites Wikipedia as a source for profiles of former Lord Chancellors.
• "Slivers of silver solve the problem of smelly socks" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, June 25, 2003) Links to Grey goo
• "Wharton: God doesn't bless only Americans" (Salt Lake Tribune, United States, June 26, 2003) Cited as source for Woody Guthrie, "According to Wikipedia.org, Guthrie was blacklisted in the 1950s."

[edit] July

• "GM slayer at the Staunton Memorial" (Chessbase News, Germany, July 8, 2003) cites Wikipedia (not named, but most likely Howard Staunton)
• "Asteroid Armageddon Less Likely" (Betterhumans, Canada, July 17, 2003) links directly to Earth's atmosphere
• "Vendor lock-in, part 1" (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, Internet, July 8, 2003) links to Wikipedia definition of vendor lock-in
• "Could nanobots destroy us?" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, July 9, 2003) links to Grey goo
• "Royalists and communists return to the streets of Baghdad" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, July 15, 2003) links to Faisal II of Iraq
• "'Semtex' puff pastry shuts airport" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, July 25, 2003) links to Semtex
• "Top universities want £5,000 fees" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, July 26, 2003) links to Russell Group of Universities

[edit] August

• "Quantum logic gate created using excitons" (Slashdot.org, Internet, August 11, 2003) quotes entire excitons article
• "A sampling of early Christian anti-Semitism" (Kansas City Star, United States, August 16, 2003) cites several sources for , among them Wikipedia.com (the article in question is probably Christianity and anti-Semitism)
• "Royal post for UN inspector" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, August 19, 2003) links to Guy Green
• "'Saddam's Knuckles' captured in Mosul" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, August 20, 2003) links to Taha Yassin Ramadan
• "Channel Seven Australia, the Gameshow 'Deal Or No Deal'" (Channel Seven television, Australia, August 24, 2003) references Wikipedia as a source for further information on the gameshow questions.
• "Film brings East German spaceman out of the cold" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, August 28, 2003) links to Sigmund Jähn

[edit] September

• "The Joys of Breadboarding" (TechTV, Internet, September 9, 2003) quotes definition of Breadboard
• "Powell sees town where Saddam's gas killed 5,000" (Daily telegraph online, Internet, September 16, 2003) links to Halabja poison gas attack
• "The Bloody Consequences of American and Iraqi Civil Wars" (Aljazeerah.info, Internet, September 23, 2003) cites Human_rights_violations_in_Iraq. Note that this is not the better-known Aljazeera.

[edit] October

• "'God's banker' case reopened" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, October 1, 2003) links to Roberto Calvi
• "Murder squad revisit Roberto Calvi" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, October 4, 2003) links to Roberto Calvi
• "'Mad Dog' Adair exposed as bungling liar in book" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, October 6, 2003) article links to Johnny Adair
• Tory stalwarts challenge leader's policies (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, October 7, 2003) article links to Iain Duncan Smith
• "The Great Displacement" (Techcentralstation.com, Internet, October 13, 2003) quotes Wikipedia about Great Depression with link to article.
• "Police seize Calvi scaffolding" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, October 15, 2003) article links to Roberto Calvi
• "Vichy mentally ill patients 'were not murdered'" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, October 17, 2003) links to Vichy France
• "Israel's Raid on Syria, Stage Four in the Terror War" (Counterpunch.org, Internet, October 18, 2003) cites Wikipedia as source that US founded the Palestianian Authority from the Palestinian_Authority article.
• "The mod mood" (Knoxville News Sentinel (Tennessee), United States, October 23, 2003) references to the mod lifestyle article
• Russia 'ignoring' plight of siege poison victims (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, October 23, 2003) article links to Moscow Theatre Siege
• "Books: Fight of the living dead" (Sacramento Bee, United States, October 30, 2003) cites wikipedia as a source for information on a rum-based drink, called the zombie

[edit] November

• "Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space" (Slashdot, Internet, November 5, 2003) links to the topic of the heliopause.
• "SCO Threatens to Sue Hollywood. Yeah, Right" (Groklaw, Internet, November 7, 2003) quotes and cites wikipedia as a source for information on Minix
• "What system prevails in Venezuela?" (Venezuelan News and Analysis, Internet, November 2003) quotes Wikipedia extensively on System of government.
• "Arafat 'diverted $300m of public money to Swiss bank account'" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, November 9, 2003) article links to Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
• "US frigate takes Stars and Stripes back to Vietnam" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, November 20, 2003) article links to Vietnam War -as does the same article on Education Telegraph online
• "Istanbul suicide bombers 'escaped capture after tip-off'" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, November 28, 2003) article links to Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front
• "Mafia lair stormed by 1,000-man hit team" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, November 30, 2003) article links to Mafia

[edit] December

• "'Explosive socks' seized by police in anti-terror raids" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, December 7, 2003) article links to Explosive material
• "Giscard the author joins Académie that ignored Flaubert and Zola" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, December 12, 2003) article links to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
• "Can dynasty detectives unearth the Medici secrets?" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, December 13, 2003) article links to Medici
• "So close to achieving his evil dream but delusion and ineptitude led to his fall" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, December 15, 2003) article links to Saddam Hussein
• "The Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever" (Extremetech, Internet, December 23, 2003) article links to Microsoft Bob.
• "Stalin's depraved executioner still has grip on Moscow" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, December 23, 2003) article links to Lavrenty Beria
• "Bremer rejects Blair's 'secret labs' claim" (Daily Telegraph online, Internet, December 29, 2003) article links to Iraq Survey Group
• "Computers: Cutting the Cord" (Occupational Hazards (magazine), Internet, December 11, 2003) links to ALOHAnet.
• "Online resources on telephones" (New Straits Times, Malaysia, December 8, 2003) cites Alexander Graham Bell

[edit] About Wikipedia

[edit] English

• In an interview on NPR's "Talk of the Nation - Science Friday", Bruce Perens made a special point of referencing Wikipedia as an example of an OpenSource project. January 17, 2003.
• Wired News, January 28, 2003
• The Guardian (UK), January 30 2003
• Tectonic African open source news, February 7, 2003
• SearchDay, February 10, 2003
• Nashua (N.H., USA) Telegraph - February 12, 2003 first-person account
• BBC's h2g2 entry, February 13, 2003
• Mark Jeays, "Wikipedia - An Online Collaborative Encyclopedia", published in The Canadian Writers Guide, 13th Edition, 2003.
• This is Local London: It's Common Knowledge February 22, 2003 - incorrectly states that Wikipedia uses CamelCase
• Sunday Herald Sun: Factual free-for-all takes on Britannica (cache) February 23, 2003
• Jack Ganssle, On Language on EE Times Network, 27 March 2003. Ganssle favourably compares Wikipedia with other online reference works.
• Four futures for scientific and medical publishing letter in April issue of British Medical Journal (BMJ).
• EContent Magazine April issue, incorrectly states that there is no way to email users
• Brief mention of Wiktionary in William Gibson interview in The Guardian. May 1, 2003
• PC Magazine - What's a Wiki?, 9th May 2003 by Sebastian Rupley
• Nashua (N.H., USA) Telegraph - 14 May 2003; bottom half of column talks about personal experience with one Wikipedia entry.
• New York Times - Business Is Toying With A Web Tool, 19 May 2003 - Wikipedia mentioned and pictured. Article on Socialtext wikis in businesses.
• Information Outlook June 2003
• PC Magazine Site of the Week June 6, 2003
• The Javapedia Project (Java Today), by Ron Goldman. Introduces Javapedia, citing Wikipedia as the inspiration. June 10, 2003
• Gettin' Wiki With It in Sarah's Blog Report (part of The Screen Savers)
• Expertise is key in Wiki world The Advertiser, LA. Jun 30, 2003
• USA Today, July 1, 2003, It's a Wiki world out there for the Web's groupmind
• Website turns tables on government officials, Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe, July 4, 2003. About the Government Information Awareness project, mentions Wikipedia in comparison as the "best known wiki site".
• Edmonton Sun, July 7, 2003, Shakeup coming on Bourbon Street: SITE FOR SORE EYES. Article reads "There's a very good online encyclopedia on the Internet called Wikipedia." Then the article uses wikipedia as a source for "this day in history."
• National Public Radio, July 21, 2003, Commentary: Wikis. Wikipedia.org, for example, lets the public collaborate to build a surprisingly accurate encyclopedia. Commentator David Weinberger says wikis are one example of "social software," intended to allow people to work together with ease.
• The Age, July 22, 2003, What a wiki thing to do. Article about wiki's with paragraph about wikipedia.
• Open content and value creation by Magnus Cedergren. Wikipedia cited as an example of Open Content.
• CNN TechWatch video or Web article, August 4, 2003, CNN International Tech Watch aired a segment on the Wikipedia and the Hong Kong University student project
• Time Magazine Article entitled The People's Encyclopedia. August 12, 2003
• Christian Science Monitor passing reference in article entitled The People's War August 14, 2003
• Science September 5, 2003.
• Computer Weekly September 2003
• Encyclopedias a Click Away; Washington Post, Sep. 7, 2003. Brushes off Wikipedia fairly quickly and focuses on CD-ROM encyclopedias.
• PressofAtlanticCity.com. Article entitled Save cash on books, find them free on Net advises using Wikipedia rather than paying for encyclopedias. Positive comments about the current events section. September 14 2003.
• MIT, October 1 2003, Votive Offering: How to Have Your Election Cake and Eat It Too. An article about voting systems in MIT's online newspaper, The Tech ends with the line "An excellent introduction to voting systems and voting reform is www.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Voting_system." Note the typographical error of the inserted space character that prevents you from using the URL directly as presented in the article.
• The "Glassine Surfer" column in the October 2003 issue of The American Philatelist (the main magazine of the American Philatelic Society) has a brief mention of Wikipedia, characterizing its stamp collecting material as "fairly good", and including the URL for Postage Stamp. The column is a monthly feature that mentions various websites of interest to philatelists.
• ABC 7 Denver Write for an Encyclopedia, October 8. Mirrored by 46 on October 9: [1]
• Wired News article entitled "Open Source Everywhere" has a section on Wikipedia. October 15 2003
• "Reference wwworks", Daily Mirror (UK). Names Wikipedia as one of "our top 10 reference sites". October 17, 2003
• Debian Weekly News talks about the article Debian in Wikipedia. 21 October, 2003.
• MS-Mobiles article on the German Wikipedia available in MobiPocket Reader format. 19 November 2003
• Berkeley Daily - Famed Berkeley Home Hosts Kucinich E-campaign - Henry Poole, boardmember of Free Software Foundation talks about Wikipedia, November 28, 2003.
• Tech Bloom in Full Flower, an editoral by Alex Steffen in the Seattle Post-Intellegencer, mentions Wikipedia as an example. November 20, 2003
• Join hands, Asian media urged in The Star, Malaysia mentions Wikipedia as an example of participatory journalism. December 9, 2003
• "St. Nick not well known", Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah. Carrie A. Moore explains the history of Christmas celebrations with the assistance of "Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia". December 20, 2003

[edit] Bulgarian

• ABC Design

[edit] Croatian

• KLIK Magazin

[edit] Danish

• Fagbladet Folkeskolen, May 8, 2003

[edit] Dutch

• Apestaartje
• Metro(registration required)
• Dutch computer magazine for the elderly, PC Plus Magazine, published a four page tutorial on how to add and edit Wikipedia entries in their October 2003 issue.

[edit] Esperanto

• Radio Polonia interviews Chuck Smith; broadcast 2002/04/28 (MP3, transcript)
• the March edition of the magazine Esperanto by the Universal Esperanto Association includes an article about Wikipedia
• the 203rd issue of Starto by the Czech Esperanto Association includes articles from and about Wikipedia
• the book Fakaj Studoj en Esperanto (Specialized Studies in Esperanto) includes a chapter entitled "Vikipedio - Multlingva Reta Enciklopedio" (Wikipedia - A Multilingual Online Encyclopedia) about Wikipedia by Chuck Smith
• Ĝangalo (a popular Esperanto portal) has an article about Wikipedia
• Ĝangalo has an interview with Arno Lagrange about Wikipedia.

[edit] Finnish

• MTV3 Internet (article moved)
• Sektori.com

[edit] French

• Interview of Jimmy Wales (FING - November 20, 2003)

[edit] German

• see [2]

[edit] Hungarian

• Figyelo net
• Metro, Aug 27, 2003

[edit] Indonesian

• Detikinet, 3 November 2003. 1001 Otak Berkolaborasi Lewat Internet.

[edit] Italian

• VBScuola.com (translation of Meyers article)

[edit] Japanese - 日本語

• HotWired - January 28, 2003

[edit] Korean

• korea.internet.com Press release coverage

[edit] Norwegian

• Veni, Vidi, Wiki - about Wikipedia as a tool for communal writing
• Kulturnett - article on Wikipedia from library science magazine
• Folkets leksikon - article about Wikipedia in Aftenposten.

[edit] Polish

• Interia.pl
• On 30.10.2001 the biggest Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" had a lengthy article about Wikipedia. You can read it in Polish here.
• The same article (somewhat shortened) was reprinted by "Angora" weekly magazine. (11.11.2001)
• "Trybuna" daily newspaper had a feature about Wikipedia in the issue of 10.11.2001.
• PC World Komputer Witryna Dnia, Wikipedia.com, 6 stycznia 2002

[edit] Portuguese

• SAPO
• Terra.com.br Informatica
• Yahoo! Brasil: Noticias (reprint)

[edit] Russian

• Computerra.ru

[edit] Serbian

• Svet Kompjutera 10/2003, in an article about wikis (the article has three sections: introductory, "Wikipedia" and "Others")

[edit] Spanish

• El Mundo - credits incorrectly wiki.org for thinking of the idea for wikipedia
• Datafull.com
• Ke!, revista de Infonomia (requires log-in)
• Noticias.com
• "Elec-Cronicas / Wikipedia", El Norte, Monterrey, Mexico, Decemeber 29, 2003 - "Una de las aventuras mas sorprendentes de la Red es probablemente la tentativa de escribir una enciclopedia en la redaccion de la cual cualquier internauta puede participar a su antojo. Basada en la tecnologia de los wikis de la cual hemos hablado hace poco, la Wikipedia festejara su tercer aniversario el 15 de enero con resultados impresionantes."

[edit] Swedish

• Datormagazin, 8/2003