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Wikipedia in the media
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Wikipedia as a topic:
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Wikipedia as a source:
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Please do not list any instances of Wikipedia being a product placement or a mere reference; for those, see Wikipedia in culture.

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[edit] 2007

  • 2007-02-26, WHYY-FM First broadcast 26 February 2007 11:00 am UTC-5, Podcast. "Why one of the internet's most popular internet encyclopedias is also considered unreliable. We'll talk with NEIL WATERS a professor at Middlebury College, who discovered an obscure but incorrect fact on his students' exams. It turns out they all got it from the same source Wikipedia. Then we'll hear from VIBIANA BOWMAN a librarian at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey about how Wikipedia and the internet in general is changing how we get information and we must adopt new standards for vetting it. Bowman is also author of The Plagiarism Plague in which she argues that the internet has made plagiarism an even bigger problem."
  • 2007-01-12 : French private channel TF1 early evening news report aired a reportage about Wikipedia. Florence Nibart-Devouard was interviewed, as was a french editor. The Nature report on Wikipedia reliability was mentioned.

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[edit] 2004

  • 2004-12-11 17:30+02:00: Episode 4 of the television program go_open [24], which is shown on the South African channel SABC 2, had 3 short mentions of Wikipedia. The program dealt primarily with Creative Commons and featured an interview with Lawrence Lessig. It also had a short introduction to GIMP by Mark Shuttleworth, and segments on a local ISP using SpamAssassin and general user computer security tips. It then had short mentions of openphoto.net and Wikipedia. Transcript of the 3 mentions of Wikipedia: Segueing from a discussion of openphoto.net, [on screen: The cross section eye diagram from the Eye article.] "and if you want to find out about how the eye actually works, [on screen: The "Search results" page.] get en.wikipedia.org in your sight. Wikipedia [on screen: Language links on the Main Page with 1000+ (note that Afrikaans is one of the most common languages in South Africa) and 100+ articles.] is a free content encyclopedia in many languages. Wikipedia's content [on screen: Cheche.JPG in the article and scrolling down to Eye.png (which was removed on 2004-10-23t10:46z).] is created by it's users, and its pages are always subject to editing, [on screen: "Eye" article's heading, and panning down to the "[edit]" link below the cross section diagram.] so no article is ever finished [on screen: "Editing Eye (section)" page.]. Now that's [on screen: The top of the Main page] a far cry from having to pay for your encyclopedia, isn't it? [...] Lastly en.wikipedia.org [on screen: Main Page, and the URI as a graphic at the bottom of the screen.] lets you expand your knowledge and everybody else's, for free." John Vlismas, stand-up comedian and program presenter: "Encyclopædia Britannica, a third of the size, very expensive. Wikipedia, three times the size and growing, absolutely free." Bittorrent of episodes 1 to 6.
  • 4 December 2004: An interview with Jimmy Wales airs on The Buzz, a popular science program on Australian Radio National. After a brief introduction to Wikipedia, the focus of the interview is Wikinews. [25]
  • 17 November 2004: Angela discusses Wikipedia on the You and Yours programmme on BBC Radio 4. You can listen to it at [26] but you might need some sort of plugins.
  • 9 October 2004: Andrew Lih was also briefly interviewed on New Zealand's National Radio. He explained the concepts behind Wikipedia and NPOV. He also spoke about Wikipedia 1.0 and the difficulties in capturing a snapshot of an ever evolving encyclopedia.
  • 4 October 2004: Andrew Lih was interviewed for BBC's Go Digital program which was webcast. [27]
  • 6 August 2004: Featured on Chip Talk, a one-minute radio program on computer software, hardware, and the Web, produced at Seattle, Washington's KIRO-AM radio, and distributed to member stations of the Associated Press Radio Network. The segment was called "The world's largest encyclopedia." Wikipedia was described as "one of the few examples of online services where people who don't even know each other have come together to create a successful product," and as a comprehensive reference in which you can read about Mars the planet, the god, and even the candy bar. A link to Wikipedia is provided from the Chip Talk home page.
  • August 4, 2004 - featured on National Public Radio's program Day to Day in a segment called The Web Browser: Silly Names for Serious Sites.
  • July 6th, 2004: YleX, a Finnish language national radio channel in Finland, recorded an interview with Timo Jyrinki. It was used as a part of "YleX Tänään" (YleX Today) -program the same day. The interview considered e.g. trusthworthiness and scope of Finnish and other Wikipedias. Paper encyclopedias were described as "old-fashioned" in comparison. In the relatively short interview, many main aspects of Wikipedia were introduced to the listeners - anyone can edit, anyone can fix if there are miswritings, freedom (fortunately, we have a separate word for libre) and the huge success as seen in bigger Wikipedias.
  • 17 April 2004 or 20 April 2004 20:00+01:00 or 21:00+01:00: Raidió na Life, an Irish-language community radio station in Dublin, Ireland, recorded a brief interview (about five minutes) with Gabriel Beecham on Wikipedia, specifically focusing on the Irish version. This interview is to be aired during the evening show Fios Feasa.
  • March 18, 2004: BBC ClickOnline, a minutes worth of coverage on BBC's ClickOnline show in a discussion about wikis. Video: Real media stream or Windows Media stream. See this note.
    • In the discussion, you can see the featured article of the day was Lego. Therefore, it (or at least that part of it) was filmed on March 11.
  • February 25, 2004: Tagesthemen, the late edition of Germany's primary TV news program aired an approximately three minute feature on Wikipedia. It included general information on the Wiki-principle as well as an interview with two German Wikipedians. However, while not being negative, it concluded with the statement that - in order to achieve the quality of established encyclopedias - much remains to be done. Read English translation by Google, WMV movie (9Mb), An English translation of the transcript, and a screenshot

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