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PC Magazine May 2, 2007 Alison Lapp |
Wikipedia's Opponent Wikipedia vet Larry Sanger launches Citizendium, an online encyclopedia with tougher oversight. |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Rival Whacks at Wikipedia Can Citizendium take Wikipedia down a few notches just when the Wiki universe looks to expand? |
Searcher March 2006 Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
BusinessWeek January 6, 2011 Drake Bennett |
Assessing Wikipedia, Wiki-Style, on Its 10th Anniversary How the online "temple of the mind" became the go-to site for looking stuff up: A drama told in the open-source style of Wikipedia. |
Wired March 2005 Daniel H. Pink |
The Book Stops Here Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created Wikipedia. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 10, 2014 Peter Houston |
Fixing Wikipedia Will Pharma join a growing effort to make the world's leading online health information resource more relevant to providers and safer for patients? |
HBS Working Knowledge July 23, 2007 Sean Silverthorne |
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) Harvard Business School professors conduct a case study on how online cultures are made and maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. |
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Mapping Places in Wikipedia Wikipedia is a high quality online source of information, but does not do a good job displaying images or maps. Placeopedia attempts to fill that gap by mapping Wikipedia location entries on Google maps. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2008 Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2008 William Badke |
What to Do With Wikipedia Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. |
Search Engine Watch March 22, 2005 Mary Ellen Bates |
Just the Facts, Please While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most comprehensive online search resources for quick, free and reliable ready reference information. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
Reason June 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Wikipedia and Beyond Wikipedia was born as an experiment in aggregating information. But the reason it works isn't that the world was clamoring for a new kind of encyclopedia. It took off because of the robust, self-policing community it created. Despite its critics, it is transforming our everyday lives. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 19, 2015 Michael Blanding |
Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopedia Britannica By identifying politically biased language in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Feng Zhu hopes to learn whether professional editors or open-sourced experts provide the most objective entries. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
Think Wikipedia Is Sexist? They Want To Pay You To Help Change That A United Nations University study from 2010 found that only 13% of Wikipedia's editors are female, while other surveys have yielded an even lower number. |
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 John C. Dvorak |
Why Wikipedia Just Gets Better You don't think I'm here as a Wikipedia booster without some deeper commentary, do you? There has to be something wrong with it, since the idea is utopian, and utopian ideas are bound to fail in the long term. |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
Wikipedia Calls Security The online encyclopedia steps takes greater precautions following a recent controversy. Judging by some Internet trends, that step can't come too soon. |
InternetNews December 7, 2005 Erin Joyce |
Wikipedia And The Truth Troops The community-driven, Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia, needs to do more than check anonymous editors at the site's door. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Lally & Dunford |
Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections Web 2.0 technologies offer librarians a great opportunity to enhance the authority of resources that students use on a daily basis, and to push their knowledge and expertise beyond the traditional boundaries of the library. |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2011 Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2006 Jon Evans |
Information Free-for-All The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia could become the main source of chemical information in 5-10 years, according to a professional chemist. |
Information Today July 16, 2015 |
EBSCO Health Gives Wikipedia Access to Its Clinical Reference Solution Up to 300 Wikipedia editors who meet the qualifications set out by this partnership will get free accounts for DynaMed Plus. |
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Christina Chaey |
4 Ways The New Wikidata Will Improve Wikipedia The Wikimedia Foundation completes its first phase of development for Wikidata in August. The database will help streamline Wikipedia content by focusing on facts and figures, cutting out subjectivity, and increasing transparency. |
Entrepreneur January 2008 Jennifer Lonoff Schiff |
New Entry Your company's arrived. Now let everyone know by getting on Wikipedia. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Mark Anderson |
Wikipedia's Shakespeare Problem Wikipedia is a little too sure we know who authored Hamlet |
Information Today May 13, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, announced a new project designed to improve the quality of public policy-related articles on Wikipedia. |
PC Magazine February 1, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
Peer Review The collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has millions of entries in hundreds of languages. |
Entrepreneur June 2007 Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2008 Tim Beyers |
A Rebel Begs for a Bailout Wikipedia's founder begs for donations to keep the encyclopedic Web site advertisement-free. |
Information Today February 22, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Announces $2 Million Grant From Google This is the Wikimedia Foundation's first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2006 Paul McFedries |
It's a Wiki, Wiki World Wikipedia is appearing everywhere and new words are sprouting everywhere as a result. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 Marydee Ojala |
Censorship and Wikipedia--An Instructive Tale What if, one fine morning, you went to your favorite Wikipedia page only to see a "404 page not found" error message? |
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Karen Valby |
Wikipedia's Librarian to the World Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site's broken business into a growing hub with global ambitions. Can a fast-talking iconoclast out-think silicon valley's gurus? |
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Michael J. Miller |
People of the Year Second Life isn't the first virtual community, but it is one of the most popular. Founded by Philip Rosedale in 2003, it recently reached its one millionth resident. |
Information Today December 17, 2007 |
Wikis Go Printable The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain high quality print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. |
Fast Company March 15, 2007 |
The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google Wikipedia depends on the search results from Google to succeed. But, how? |
InternetNews February 23, 2007 David Needle |
Does Wikinomics Have The Write Stuff? The authors of "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything" have set up a wiki to go with the best-selling book. In keeping with the wiki tradition, the Wikinomics wiki, hosted by Socialtext, lets its readers have the final say. |
Reactive Reports Issue 54 David Bradley |
Interview with Martin Walker This professor focuses his research on green chemistry and the use of fluorous biphasic systems. |
Wired November 2003 Thomas Goetz |
Open Source Everywhere Software is just the beginning ... open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation. |
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 |
Jimmy Wales's Wikipedia Balancing Act The Wikipedia founder speaks on empowering his army of volunteers while still maintaining control of the site -- and not selling out. |
Fast Company Chris Gayomali |
Wikipedia's New iOS App Is Designed To Make You Fall Down Rabbit Holes The new Wikipedia app for iOS was designed, first and foremost, for two things: speed and curiosity. |
Reactive Reports |
Star Picks Web links for chemists. |
Searcher December 2002 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright Many do not want to give up their copyright and the financial return on their creative work, but a growing number of creators do want to make their creations freely available. |
Macworld October 31, 2005 Teague & Teague |
Encyclopedia Software Two of the most popular physical encyclopedias, World Book and Encyclopedia Britannica, have recently updated their virtual equivalents. Plus, the free Wikipedia Dashboard widget now makes it even easier to look up information. |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Rob Hof |
Wikis' Winning Ways Web sites that allow members to share info and collaborate are catching on fast. Here's a tour of key examples. |
Reason March 2008 Kerry Howley |
Artifact: The World Needs Citations Nothing conveys Wikipedia's openness to revision quite like "[citation needed]," the bracketed phrase sprinkled throughout its pixellated scrolls. |
InternetNews December 8, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Ward Cunningham, Wiki Creator, Eclipse Dir. of Committer Community Development A conversation with Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki. |
The Motley Fool December 27, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
The Search Is On at Wikipedia The search giants have a new -- and important -- rival looming on the competitive landscape. For anybody invested in companies that seek to profit off Internet search, Wikiasari will be a tremendously important development to watch. |
Information Today January 5, 2016 |
Wikipedia Celebrates Its 15th Birthday With Librarian-Centric Campaign The Wikipedia Library team invites librarians to help Wikipedia celebrate its 15th birthday on Jan. 15, 2016, by adding one reference to any Wikipedia article. |
Wired January 18, 2008 |
Expired-Tired-Wired What's new and old in air travel, gambling, Wikipedia writing and TV science fiction. |