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I think it's also time to declare to the arrival of Wikipedia in the popular press. A Lexis-Nexus search of all minimally notable hometown newspapers in just the US for Wikipedia either as a subject, source, or passing by reference in only the last 6 months yields 211 results (this does not include the newspapers of some ~1800 colleges in this country), and all ther other recognition such as the 100+ mentions/source/subject law review & law journals articles in the past years. From repeated citiations about the papacy by the LA Times to chess tournaments by the Omaha World-Journal - it might be worth mentioning that the task of documenting these mentions in the wikipedia as a press source document is now hopelessly overrun. Lotsofissues 13:08, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The positive LA Times commentary today also revealed a small organized half attempt by a right wing blog to vandialize wikipedia. The blog has moved on and I don't want to renew attention to the site. The Times mention already informed enough people for what was a minor effort. Let's pass over mentioning the blog too. Lotsofissues 01:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Google indexes 10 million pages of Wikipedia content - see Wikipedia:Village pump (news)#Ten million pages indexed and User:Alterego/Number of pages in Google Thryduulf 12:23, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Followup? Any visible results? Still rising?
Quarter Million Users Past this milestone today. Lotsofissues 18:29, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Is there any more information about this anywhere? Worldtraveller 19:41, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looks like very little fanfare over this. Sorry wouldn't know. :-| Lotsofissues 17:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Keep an eye on WikiNews TV and report when they go live. - Mgm|^(talk) 17:53, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC) (DV left)
Mailing-list threads : HTML email?? horrors (hanging)
- Bambara Wikipedia launched on Wednesday... (postponed)

Astonishing similarity of an article from the Brockhaus web site from May 3rd compared to a wikipedia article from April 26th. And some press or blog coverage. -- 84.176.226.92 19:50, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Brockhaus has removed the article from their web site. more press and more blogs

Jimbo is created a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School [1] -- Lotsofissues 01:24, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Now ncluded in 'wikipedian meeting' notes.
Wikipedia was featured in the newspaper comic strip FoxTrot on May 7th, which should mean a very widespread 'press coverage'. The articles mentioned experienced some bursts of nonsense, and one of them was briefly protected from editing.