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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?   |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
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. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2008
Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia. |
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. |
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
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. |
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
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
March 15, 2007 |
The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google Wikipedia depends on the search results from Google to succeed. But, how? |
Inc.
February 2006
Darren Dahl |
The End of E-Mail It's supposed to make life easier, but e-mail has become a big pain for businesses. Enter the wiki, new software that could change the way you communicate. |
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? |
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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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 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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Mark Anderson |
Wikipedia's Shakespeare Problem Wikipedia is a little too sure we know who authored Hamlet |
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. |
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. |
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
December 2006
Paul McFedries |
It's a Wiki, Wiki World Wikipedia is appearing everywhere and new words are sprouting everywhere as a result. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Jane Easter Bahls |
Post No Evil Businesses that host blogs are subject to lawsuits over libel. Here's a quick look at the law. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Jennifer Lonoff Schiff |
New Entry Your company's arrived. Now let everyone know by getting on Wikipedia. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Wikia Goes The Way of Open Source Search Wikipedia founder acquires Grub search crawler for Wikia. |
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. |
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? |
