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• First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia - Journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli. Explains the success of Wikipedia thanks to a solution to the problem of the submission of undesirable pieces of information.
  
• Wikipedia Weekly - Podcast about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundations' project by five wikipedians.
  
• Wired News: Not Your Father's Encyclopedia - Early article that describes the advantages of an open-source encyclopedia, plus its shortcomings.
  
• CNN.com - Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site - Short article describing one individual's experiences.
  
• Poynter Online - Wikipedia for Journalists - Proclaims that the use of Wikipedia is a good source for basic background information for journalists.
  
• Building a (fast) Wikipedia Offline Reader - Article by Thanassis Tsiodras describing how he put together a searchable offline version of the online encyclopedia using various open source tools.
  
• ITworld.com - Chinese censors block access to Wikipedia - Chinese censors have blocked access to Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information.
  
• The Register - Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book - Commentary by Andrew Orlowski. "Our jibe that the Wikipedia is the world's most useless encyclopedia drew precisely two angry responses. But both illustrate the condition perfectly."
  
• Many-to-Many: Who's afraid of Wikipedia? - Teacher discusses students citing Wikipedia and when that is appropriate.
  
• Wikinfo: Critical views of Wikipedia - Provides a basic history, discusses some notable failures and the limitations of using a wiki as an encyclopedia.
  
• Placeopedia.com - Project to connect Wikipedia articles with their geographical locations. Provides a google maps interface to handle user submissions.
  
• The Importance of... The Great Wikipedia Authority Debate - Offers excerpts from previous articles written on open source projects, and offers arguments that support it.
  
• kuro5hin.org - Wikinews And The Growing Wikimedia Empire - Article and commentary about the growing group of projects which fall under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella.
  
• Wikipedia Boycott Campaign - Criticism and Boycott Campaign towards Wikipedia
  
• WikiBrowse - Wikipedia dedicated, open source browser for Windows.
  
• New Scientist: Wikipedia 2.0 - Now with Added Trust - The online encyclopedia is set to trial two systems aimed at boosting readers' confidence in its accuracy.
  
• Wikitruth - Self-defined scandal sheet that focus on publishing deleted articles from Wikipedia.
  
• Salon.com - Everyone is an editor - Attempts to examine the pros and cons of Wikipedia. Plus, comparisons to previous similar projects.
  
• Sourcewatch: Wikipedia - Provides a critical review of Wikipedia.
  
• kuro5hin.org - Can an Open Content Encyclopedia Thrive? - Early concerns about Wikipedia's concept.
  
• WikiScanner - The much discussed list of anonymous edits on Wikipedia from well known organizations.
  
• Botwiki - Documenting, developing and testing MediaWiki's bots, mainly for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation's projects.
  
• Many-to-Many: Wikipedia Reputation and the Wemedia Project - Attempts to look at the core issues of collaborative editing: accuracy and trust.
  
• Frozen North: How Authoritative is Wikipedia? - Weblog entry. Describes the author's process of putting errors into Wikipedia and watching for corrections to them. Suggests how fact-checking needs to be improved at Wikipedia, and gives ideas for further experiments.
  
• Wikizine - News bulletin on Wikimedia Foundation's projects by a steward and old-timer editor. [English, Español, Deutsch, Indonesia]
  
• Slashdot: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds - Wikipedia founder responds to a dozen highly moderated questions.
  
• The Register: Wikipedia 'to Make Universities Obsolete' - Opinion article by Andrew Orlowski suggesting that Wikipedia has a long way to go before it's a stand-in for libraries and scholarly publications.
  
• The Register: Wikipedia's Emergent People Fail to Impress Readers - Criticisms of Wikipedia and of arguments used by its admirers in an article by Andrew Orlowski.
  
• Slashdot: Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark - Lovely forum discussion.
  
• Infodisiac - Offers Wikipedia in several languages in TomeRaider format, for Palm OS, Pocket PC, and EPOC Smart Phones.
  
• USA Today: Today's Best Encyclopedia Might Surprise You - Overview of Wikipedia's growth, quality, and editing process.
  
• Encyclopodia - Free software version of Wikipedia for Apple iPod devices. [English/German]
  
• Guardian Unlimited - Wikipedia's success - Summary primarily of the positive aspects and milestones of the online encyclopedia.
  
• Wapedia - Wikipedia optimized for browsing from mobile phones.
  
• DBpedia - A community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. Details of datasets, online access, and example use cases.
  
• Wikipedia Review - Forum dedicated to criticism of Wikipedia, along with editorials from the moderators.
  
• Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? - Studies the growth of Wikipedia and analyzes the technologies and policies that made it prosper. [PDF]
  
• TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia - Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica, wonders about the Wikipedian assumptions that writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive and that articles will eventually reach a very high degree of ac
  
• Wikipedia Watch - A critical look at this encyclopedia and the people behind it.
  
• Mediapost.com - Wikipedia's Symbiotic Relationship With Search - Article by Max Kalehoff. "Wikipedia's orderly collection of consumer-created content is becoming a high-powered magnet for Internet searches." "For marketers, Wikipedia can be an unpredictable variable capable of influencing customers and
  
• kuro5hin.org - Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism - Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger writes, "Wikipedia does have two big problems, and attention to them is long overdue. These problems could be eliminated by eliminating a single root problem."
  
  

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