Bennett, Drake (6 January 2011).
"Assessing Wikipedia, Wiki-Style, on Its 10th Anniversary". Bloomberg. Retrieved 8 January 2011. 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 story of the first ten years of Wikipedia produced under a loose interpretation of Wikipedia's own collaborative principles. It was rewritten, corrected, and commented upon by a team of guest editors -
Jonathan Zittrain , Professor of Law at Harvard Law School ;
Robert Dale McHenry, editor in chief for Encyclopædia Britannica 1992-1997;
Benjamin Mako Hill , MIT Researcher, Wikipedia editor and member of Wikimedia foundation advisory board;
Mike Schroepfer, Developer of the Firefox open source browser and now Vice President of Engineering at Facebook.
Celebrating 10th anniversary. Plans to include as editors in the future "more women, more older people and more editors who write in a greater diversity of languages".
"All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary". The Atlantic. 13 January 2011. To try to capture the many ways we think about Wikipedia, we reached out to an all-star ensemble of thinkers to comment on the site's texture and community. We asked them a simple question -- what do you think about Wikipedia?
Jon, Stewart (14 January 2011).
"Wikipedia at 10". BBC World service. Retrieved 15 January 2011. It started as a hobby with noble aims and has blossomed into the fifth most popular website in the world - with over three million English articles alone, ten million contributors and 175 languages.
30 min radio documentary on Wikipedia's first ten years. Raises questions on the use of paid to edit public relations consultants.
Rohrer, Finlo (14 January 2011).
"Lost in Wikipedia". BBC News Magazine. It's easy to get lost while wandering through Wikipedia. Perhaps sitting at home one evening, a tax return needs to be filled in, or a new shed picked and ordered. Instead there is a sudden desire to immerse oneself in Wikipedia-aided trivia.
As part of the 10th anniversary the author tries to follow a chain of Wikipedia hyper links as far as he can go in one hour.
Tkacz, Nathaniel (20 January 2011).
"The Spanish Fork: Wikipedia's ad-fuelled mutiny". Wired magazine. CondéNetUK Limited. Retrieved 21 January 2011. As Wikipedia reaches its 10th birthday, Wired.co.uk reflects on a period of time in its early years when Wikipedia was considering taking advertising. This was a contributing factor to the departure of the entire team of Spanish Wikipedia, which jumped ship in 2002 to set up its own collaborative encyclopaedia, Enciclopedia Libre Universal.
An interview with
Edgar Enyedy, which recounts the story of how Wikipedia split in two in 2002 over the issue of advertising with the Spanish Wikipedia going independent for a time and known as the Spanish Fork.
Several news items note the launch of Qwiki, a multimedia website which links a robotic reader of text drawn from Wikipedia's article on a subject with still and moving pictures which attempt to synchronise with the text as it is read. Also at
The San Francisco Chronicle,
WebProNews,
Mashable
The unnamed protagonist of the comic strip is honored to be asked by his PhD supervisor, Professor
Brian S. Smith, to edit something for him, until he discovers it is the professor's Wikipedia entry.
Jackson, Nicholas (25 February 2011).
"10 Notorious Google Bombs". The Atlantic. Retrieved 1 March 2011. Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow noticed something weird this morning. When he searched for "murder" on Google, the second result was for the "Abortion" entry on Wikipedia. "However you feel about abortion, this Wikipedia page is pretty clearly not the second-most relevant document regarding murder on the entire English-speaking World Wide Web
How a
Google bomb created by anti abortion activists has targeted the Wikipedia page on
Abortion, linking it to results of searches for "murder" on Google.
Lewis, Steve (4 March 2011).
"MP Tony Windsor assassinated on Wikipedia". Daily Telegraph. Sydney. Retrieved 4 March 2011. Australia's bruising political landscape has taken a violent turn after the Wikipedia site of Independent MP Tony Windsor was hacked to report he'd been assassinated
The news article is about the Australian Member of Parliament,
Tony Windsor. The vandalism was addressed and the article semi-protected within 2 hours of occurrence. The news article was published just before the problem was addressed.
Barrett, Brian (22 March 2011).
"Visualising Wikipedia's Version Of World History". Gizmodo. Retrieved 22 March 2011. How does Wikipedia tell the history of the world? Gareth Lloyd and Tom Martin show us in 100 seconds of blips and blops the locations and dates of 15,500 world events, as recorded in the world's largest crowd-sourced knowledge warehouse.
An animated visualization of dates and places through 2500 years based on Wikipedia's data.
"Study: Wikipedia good source on politics". Science News.
UPI. 14 April 2011. Wikipedia has become a reliable source of political information, a U.S. researcher who fact-checked biographical information and voting statistics says.
Adam Brown , a political scientist from Brigham Young University has published a study in Political Science and Politics in which he confirms that 230 Wikipedia biographical articles about major party US governorship candidates who ran for office between 1998 and 2008 were completely accurate.
Lexalytics, publisher of technology that produces automated summaries of documents, has announced that the new release of its software, will be better able to understand concepts and relationships between concepts, thanks to a close reading of the entire content of Wikipedia.
Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch finds the Wikipedia article for Eugene, Oregon to be wanting. While some complaints have easy answers, the upside is that he does exhort readers to improve the article according to several reasonable suggestions.
Vincent, Alice (19 April 2011).
"Wikimedia Commons celebrates 10 million free files". Wired.co.uk. Archived from
the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011. A photo of a bird hut became the 10 millionth upload to Wikipedia's image, video and sound file library service on 15 April, 2011.
Reportage of the 10,000,000 file upload to Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedia users adding details of so-called
super injunctions to the articles of UK nationals, which are then removed for being improperly sourced, sometimes being deleted from the edit histories.
Wikipedia users adding details of so-called
super injunctions to the articles of UK nationals, which are then removed for being improperly sourced, sometimes being deleted from the edit histories. (This time, as covered by the Daily Mail).
Zorz, Zeljka (17 May 2011).
"Wikipedia-like sites peddling fake pharmaceuticals". Help Net Security News. Retrieved 17 May 2011. Wikipedia is practically a household name now, so it's no wonder that spammers are trying to take advantage of the online encyclopedia's popularity and (relative) trustworthiness to peddle their fake wares.
Spam sites found by
Symantec's researchers use a Wikipedia look and feel website to "sell" pharmaceutuicals, using the name "WikiPharmacy".
Higginson, John (16 May 2011).
"Education minister John Hayes copied speech from Wikipedia'". Metro. London: Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 17 May 2011. Every student has been warned of the dangers of lifting passages from the internet - so, perhaps education minister John Hayes should really know better than to allegedly copy parts of a speech from Wikipedia.
The UK Education minister
John Hayes made a speech to Parliament on proposed changes to UK Bank Holiday arrangements that contained large sections lifted straight from the Wikipedia article
Bank holiday, without attribution. A researcher has been blamed and subsequently reprimanded.
Bustillos, Maria (17 May 2011).
"Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert". The Awl. Retrieved 28 October 2013. It's high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners as "doers, not recipients." If learners are indeed doers and not recipients, from whom are they learning? From one another, it appears; same as it ever was.
An article which argues that Wikipedia has created a step change in the way knowledge and expertise is transmitted and cites
Marshall McLuhan as the individual who first foresaw the changes now taking place.
Mairé, Antoine (20 May 2011).
"Sur Wikipedia, on se bagarre au sujet de DSK ("On Wikipedia, we fight about DSK")". Télérama. France. Retrieved 20 May 2011. Je suis en faveur d'une approche plus attentiste, intervenant avant tout pour discuter, préciser ou sourcer des propositions d'autres contributeurs. Il y a une expression aux Etats-Unis qui dit 'si vous ne pouvez pas les battre, joignez-vous à eux', alors voilà, je me joins à la masse de contributeurs... pour essayer d'empêcher les écarts. (roughly translated from: "I am in favor of a more wait-and-see approach... encouraging waiting on a breaking-news story to see how it develops before adding anything... but then actually adding or editing material about the scandalous or breaking-news event myself, to try at least to keep it accurate and sourced... There is an expression in America that says 'If you can't beat them, join them' - so sometimes I have to join them and add material, but try to keep the excesses in check.")
An article about the difference between the way the arrest of
Dominique Strauss-Kahn for sexual assault is handled on French and English Wikipedia, including an interview with
User: Tvoz. At the time of the interview English Wikipedia was giving many minute details about the alleged crime, charges, arrest, and legal proceedings, while French Wikipedia gave it barely more attention than a section about his Porsche. Tvoz says: "the paragraph [in fr.wikipedia] about the Porsche is almost as long as the one on the trial. Risk of spending decades in prison is a bit more significant than the car he drives ... no?"
Tuazon, JM (24 May 2011).
"Dispelling myths, advocating truths in Wikipedia". Philippines:
GMANews.tv. Retrieved 27 May 2011. For me it's a way of giving back. It's satisfying to know you're doing something that is building up the public's knowledge. It's free so it's going to be read by a lot of people.
An article about how the Wikipedia community improves on an article and makes it more reliable. It includes an interview with Remi de Leon (
User:Alternativity) and Eugene Villar (
User:Seav) who are both members of
Wikimedia Philippines (WMPH). Villar is also one of the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Philippines. The interview was done during the WMPH's
2nd Annual Convention (a.k.a WikiCon) at the
Asian Institute of Management last May 21, 2011.
"A total of 300 GPs were interviewed across Europe for the report that looked into how regularly doctors are accessing the social web for both professional and personal reasons. The headline statistic has surprised many in the industry, which jumps to 69% when analysing the number of European GPs using social media sites for professional use outside of just Wikipedia (including FaceBook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter).."
Dasgupta, Debarshi (13 June 2011).
"Help: This Is A Stub". Outlook India. Retrieved 6 June 2011. Wikipedia is betting on its Indian language versions to drive growth... It was inevitable, really. Wikimedia had little choice but to come to India as growth in the West, or the 'Global North', tapers off.... India was a more obvious choice with its "strong culture of free speech" and its numerous languages.
Magzine article on why India is the target for Wikipedia's growth in the
Global South.
"Sideshow" segment of Hardball with Chris Matthews showed Wikipedia's page views increased from 2,000 to 140,000 for the
Paul Revere article after Sarah Palin's retelling of his story.
Singleton, David (9 June 2011).
"'Fixer' cleans Wikipedia entries for senior business figures". PR Week. Retrieved 9 June 2011. A string of senior business figures have had their Wikipedia entries burnished by an anonymous 'reputation cleanser,' believed to be a senior figure in the PR industry.
Reports how an unnamed senior figure from a London PR company has been removing unflattering content from his clients Wikipedia articles. Among clients mentioned are Carphone Warehouse co-founder
David Ross, Von Essen Group chairman
Andrew Davis, British property developer
David Rowland and billionaire Saudi tycoon
Maan Al-Sanea.
"Wikipedia improves students' work". e! Science News. 31 May 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011. A student writing an essay for their teacher may be tempted to plagiarize or leave facts unchecked. A new study shows that if you ask that same student to write something that will be posted on Wikipedia, he or she suddenly becomes determined to make the work as accurate as possible, and may actually do better research.
Brenna Gray, an instructor at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C, Canada has done research that implies students are prepared to take greater pains if work is produced for Wikipedia publication than for the official college website. Originally published in by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Also published in
The Register ,
Daily India
A federal magistrate judge in Denver has odered the real identity of anonymous Wikipedia editors be revealed. Fashion retailer
Façonnable has cited them in a defamation lawsuit . Also in
The Republic
Mann, Charles (June 2011).
"The Birth of Religion". National Geographic. Retrieved 29 June 2011. It was promoted in countless articles and books and ultimately enshrined in Wikipedia.
Lutey, Tom (28 June 2011).
"Candidate struggles to control Wiki biography". Billings Gazette. Retrieved 6 July 2011. Wikipedia locked down former U.S. Congressman Rick Hill's biography page Monday, after more than 30 attempts to add or scrub details about Hill's past campaigns and his 1976 divorce.
A battle between Wikipedia editors and U.S. Congressman
Rick Hill’s campaign manager, Chuck Denowh, over the
spinning of the former Montana congressman's Wikipedia biography prior to the forthcoming state governor elections.
Part of Cohen's ongoing spat with
Johann Hari, alleging improper editing of the articles about each of them, and others.
Ball, James (11 July 2011).
"The Only Way Is Essex + Wikipedia = philosophy". The Guardian. p. G2-2. Retrieved 11 July 2011. Start at any Wikipedia page, then click the first link (ignoring any that are italicised or nestled in brackets), then repeat. For more than 93% of articles, you will end up at philosophy.
BBC staff have been told: "Don't surreptitiously sanitise Wikipedia pages about the BBC", in an artcile which also says "It follows the disclosure that employees had made anonymous edits to a Wikipedia article entitled '
Criticism of the BBC' removing references to an internal report which found the corporation was seen as 'out of touch with large swathes of the population'."
The 2011 report from the
American Customer Satisfaction Index on social media found that Wikipedia topped the table with Facebook the lowest of the social-network companies ACSI evaluated.
TechCrunch (27 July 2011).
"Greplin Wants You To Redesign Wikipedia Search". Washington Post. Retrieved 29 July 2011. Personal search engine Greplin is announcing the launch of its Wikipedia Search Design Contest today, with the ultimate objective of conceptualizing a better way to search Wikipedia.
The competition ,run by search engine
Greplin, is independent of the Wikimedia foundation and is a response to the perception that a lot of people use Google to search Wikipedia rather than its own internal search engine.
This piece is about Wikipedia's article on Lolita.
Montgomery, David (24 August 2011).
"Minutes after Virginia earthquake, it was on Wikipedia". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 August 2011. The Wikipedians needed just eight minutes to cooly consign the "
2011 Virginia earthquake" to history — the elapsed time between the temblor and the first bulletin in the online encyclopedia.
Analysis of edits made to Wikipedia by a sock-puppet of journalist Johann Hari: "one look at the hundreds of Wikipedia edits showed that Hari or someone close to him had been smearing other journalists in an on-going systemic manner for years."
"Free but not easy". The Economist. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2011. The online encyclopedia needs its users' money and volunteers' time. Gaining the first is the easier task.
Simon Rogers (11 November 2011).
"The world of Wikipedia's languages mapped". The Guardian.
London. Retrieved 11 November 2011. What happens if you map every geotagged Wikipedia article - and then analyse it for language use? A team of Oxford University researchers has found out.
"Map row to mark Wikiconference". Times of India. Mumbai. 18 November 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2011. As Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales addresses the first ever national WikiConference in India at Mumbai University's Fort campus on Friday, members of the
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) are planning to stage a protest there .
The BJYM contend that Wikipedia's map of India breaks an Indian law of 1961 which states that "publishing maps of India not in conformity with the ones published by the country is a criminal offence with imprisonment up to six months." See the map
here.
Vaidyanathan, Rajini (19 November 2011).
"Wikipedia hosts India conference amid expansion push". BBC News. London. Retrieved 20 November 2011. Hundreds of people are gathering in Mumbai for India's first Wikipedia conference. The three-day event is part of the online encyclopedia's plans to expand in the sub-continent.
Hess, Lauren (23 November 2011).
"ANC outraged over censored Wiki page". News24. Cape Town. Retrieved 24 November 2011. The ANC said on Wednesday that "censorship" done to their page on Wikipedia is "outright vandalism" and uncivilised.
Bonnici, Carmelo Mifsud (25 November 2011).
"Wikipedia: Truth or fiction?". Malta Independent Online. Retrieved 25 November 2011.