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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. |
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. |
Fast Company March 15, 2007 Alan Deutschman |
Why Is This Man Smiling? Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, slayer of Britannica, has a new giant in his sights: Google. And he thinks he has got a better way to search. Is he delusional -- or inspired? |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
Entrepreneur June 2007 Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
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. |
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? |
InternetNews January 7, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Wikia Search Launches With Google in Its Sights Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes Wikia's new community-powered search engine will shuffle the leader board. |
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. |
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. |
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 April 22, 2009 David Miller |
Wikipedia's Wales Urges Ad Buyers to Get Buying Jimmy Wales makes the pitch for advertising alongside user-generated content - and takes a swipe at social media. |
Information Today October 30, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Citizendium: A Kinder, Truer Wikipedia? Over the last year, Wikipedia online encyclopedia has faced an international furor over its reliability and accuracy. |
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. |
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? |
InternetNews July 27, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Wikia Goes The Way of Open Source Search Wikipedia founder acquires Grub search crawler for Wikia. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2008 Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia. |
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. |
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? |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Wikiasari Challenges Google's Goliath Can a collaborative, user-created search engine beat Google? What does it mean to investors? |
PC Magazine May 2, 2007 Alison Lapp |
Wikipedia's Opponent Wikipedia vet Larry Sanger launches Citizendium, an online encyclopedia with tougher oversight. |
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. |
The Motley Fool December 6, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Amazon Pays for Wiki Wisdom The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2007 Mac Greer |
Finding Gold Online An interview with Don Tapscott, the author of 10 books, including the recently published Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything on how the Web is moving beyond social networking. |
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. |
InternetNews December 14, 2007 |
Google Site May Challenge Wikipedia Google's user-edited "knol" project is in testing, but one day could represent a rival to the space's reigning champ. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today January 14, 2008 Woody Evans |
We Find It All: Wikia's New Social Search Engine Wikia, Inc. the for-profit cousin of the Wikimedia Foundation, launched the alpha release of its new search engine, Search Wikia. |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Searches and shopping set the stage for a fun walk down Wall Street this past week: Searching for money that was left on the table... Happy holidays, dot gone... |
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. |
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Karen Valby |
Whatever Happened to Jimmy Wales? The Wikipedia founder spends his days on the road, spreading the gospel of the openly editable encyclopedia -- sometimes charging top dollar. |
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. |
Information Today January 7, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Google Knol: The "Grassy Knoll" for Publishers or Just Wikipedia? Mainstream press and leading blogs immediately saw Knol as the launch of a Google offensive against Wikipedia. But a closer look at the model indicates an author-centric orientation that would better fit a strategy of building Google into a powerhouse publisher. |
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. |
Fast Company June 1, 2007 |
Feedback Letters. Updates. Advice: Wales: Ingrate or Innovator?... Paper Chase... Leadership Notes... etc. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
It's On: Wikimedia Sues The NSA The Wikimedia Foundation, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, is suing the U.S. National Security Agency in a bid to challenge mass surveillance of Internet communications, Reuters reports. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine February 1, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
Peer Review The collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has millions of entries in hundreds of languages. |
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Scammers Use Wikipedia To Distribute Virus The downside to a site anyone can edit is someone can put up a link to a virus, too. |