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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?   |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2008
Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
May 2, 2007
Alison Lapp |
Wikipedia's Opponent Wikipedia vet Larry Sanger launches Citizendium, an online encyclopedia with tougher oversight. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Michael Szajewski |
Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Visibility of Digitized Archival Assets This case study examines the use of Wikipedia by the Ball State University Libraries as an opportunity to raise the visibility of digitized historic sheet music assets made available in the university's Digital Media Repository. |
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? |
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. |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge Hone your search skills to uncover troves of serious, primary-source material on the Web. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Mark Anderson |
Wikipedia's Shakespeare Problem Wikipedia is a little too sure we know who authored Hamlet |
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
June 2, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Leveraging Britannica's Content With WebShare In late April, the company officially announced its new WebShare program, which has opened the Britannica site for free access to web publishers and permits free links to full-text entries. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Jennifer Lonoff Schiff |
New Entry Your company's arrived. Now let everyone know by getting on Wikipedia. |
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 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. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Amazon Pays for Wiki Wisdom The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration. |
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. |
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. |
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
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
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
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. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Peer Review The collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has millions of entries in hundreds of languages. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Wikipedia vs. the World With Google's Knol, Yahoo! Answers, and Answers.com's WikiAnswers, the number of sites looking to cash in on the Web 2.0 movement of user-created reference content is growing exponentially. |
Wired
January 18, 2008 |
Expired-Tired-Wired What's new and old in air travel, gambling, Wikipedia writing and TV science fiction. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2009
Marydee Ojala |
Transforming Information Quality Information professionals are devoted to finding quality information. No one doubts that. We high-mindedly point to peer review, value-added indexing, and sophisticated search strategies as guarantors of quality. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Out-Googling The Top Search Engine Online encyclopedias yield more specialized results. |
Information Today
September 9, 2014 |
Dataset Provides Organizational Metadata for Publishers DataSalon introduced OrgRef, a free, open dataset that extracts structured information about academic and research organizations from open resources such as Wikipedia. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
July 19, 2010
Eli Goodman |
How Search is Making us Smarter Online search has clearly evolved to become the de facto answer delivery system for our questions. How search opens learning opportunities to us every day. |
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. |
