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2008

January

• "Wikia launch", Google News search results, Various media sources (8 January 2008). Retrieved on 8 January 2008. 

• The launch of Wikia gets extensive reportage in the media with frequent mention of its relationship to Wikipedia. Many are critical.

Financial Times, Business Week, Reuters, BBC News

• Besson, Pierre-François (25 January 2008). "What the future holds for Wikipedia", Swissinfo. Retrieved on 30 January 2008. 

  Interview with Florence Devouard, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Discusses the future development of Wikipedia.

February

• Cohen, Noam (5 February 2008). "Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized", New York Times. Retrieved on 5 February 2008. "An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts." 

• "Muslims Protest Wikipedia Images of Muhammad", Fox News (2008-02-06). Retrieved on 6 February 2008. "Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has again stirred up controversy — this time over a biographical entry on the prophet Muhammad." 

• "Who's behind Wikipedia?". PC World (2008-02-06). Retrieved on 2008-02-07.

• Anderson, Tim (2008-02-7). "The problem with Wikipedia and bias", The National Forum, (Australia's e-journal of social and political debate). Retrieved on 20 November 2008. 

"The popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has come to play an important role in informing and also shaping public debates. Yet as a Florida-based, US creation, it brings its own baggage to those debates. US corporate media sources (Time, CNN, Fox, and so on) are privileged as reliable and “neutral” sources in Wiki entries, despite the fact that many of these bodies are intimately involved in many of the most contentious public debates, such as privatisation, intervention and war."

• Metz, Cade (6 February 2008). "Wikipedia ruled by 'Lord of the Universe'", The Register. Retrieved on 7 February 2008. "But there's a catch. One of the site’s leading administrators bears an extreme conflict of interest, but you can’t expose him from the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard. He created the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard." 

Continuing The Register's singular coverage of Wikipedia, the article alleges that User:Jossi has a conflict of interest with respect to Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard and Prem Rawat. Discussion of the matter is available from the WP:COI archives

• Anderson, Callum (February 2008). "The rise of wikidemia" (in English), inQuire, p. 4. "Does anyone know the collective noun for hawks? No, well it's a kettle. That's right a group of hawks is called a kettle of hawks. Or at least that's what Wikipedia says, so it must be true. Well not quite, because I have actually spent most of today editing the collective nouns database on Wikipedia to falsify it with the, including the two above; such absurdities as: a shard of whales, a jive of jelly fish and, worst of all, a stir of spoons. We seem to live in the age of information, yet as far as the collective nouns database on Wikipedia is concerned, an age of false information." 

  Unfortunately, this one isn't available on Inquire's web site, I checked. This is the student newspaper of the University of Kent at Canterbury. After admitting he was a vandal on Wikipedia, he goes on to talk about professors who ban Wikipedia and Google for research purposes and cites one Professor Tara Brabazon of the University of Brighton who not only bans Wikipedia and Google for research purposes, but also provides her students with excerpts to replace such research. By the way, the bad punctuation and grammar in the quote is copied directly from the printed version.

• Kellogg, Alex (2008-02-08). "Wikipedia's creator at EMU: 'We can actually do better'", Free Press. Retrieved on 10 February 2008. "Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia, literally, no matter how uninformed or unduly enthusiastic, and there’s a great lack of oversight of any kind, [Sanger] told the several hundred people who attended." 
  • Discusses Larry Sanger's speech at the Eastern Michigan University

• Carlos Arturo Serrano Gomez (2008-02-09). "Fact-Checking the Wikipedia", Ohmynews. Retrieved on 10 February 2008. 
  • An in-depth analysis on the Spanish article and other related articles in English and other Wikipedias.

• Johnson, Daniel. "Webopoly to World: Resistance is Futile", New Unversity. Retrieved on 11 February 2008. "Since 2001, Wikipedia has refused to restrict Chinese visitors from accessing certain materials prohibited by the PRC...However, if corporations like Microsoft and Google have the power to impose their policies by absorbing companies as large as Yahoo!, the same could just as easily be done to Wikipedia." 

  Analysis on the possible future oligopolies on the net and its effect on censorship, comparing large web corporations to Wikipedia on the issue.

• Ramadge, Andrew (2008-02-11). "Corey could get his Wikipedia entry after all", News.com.au. "MELBOURNE teenager Corey Worthington, also known by the surname Delaney, is set to finally get his own page on Wikipedia after an earlier entry was vetoed by users. A heated debate among the website's contributors over whether or not the 16-year-old party boy deserved his own entry in the user-generated encyclopedia took place last month." 

  About the Corey Worthington article. This article is now gone; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corey Worthington (2nd nomination).

• "Wikipedia faces wrath of Islam", The Inquirer (2008-02-11). Retrieved on 12 February 2008. "A petition claims to have amassed 132,000 signatures demanding that those wacky wiki weevils down the pic out of respect for the religion." 

• Browne, Marcus (2008-02-12). "Wikipedia accused of 'US-centric bias'", ZDNet. Retrieved on 12 February 2008. 

  Refers to a posting on ON LINE Opinion in which a lecturer at the School of Political Economy, Sydney University fulminates at a reversion of content, having declined the opportunity to discuss the issue on the article talk page.

• Dvorak, John C. (2008-02-01). "Why Wikipedia Just Gets Better", PC Magazine. Retrieved on 12 February 2008. "My advice: Enjoy it while you can." 

  A wiki skeptic considers why Wikipedia works and why its success may only be short term.

• Spicuzza, Mary (2008-02-13). "Wikipedia Idiots: The Edit Wars of San Francisco", SF Weekly. Retrieved on 13 February 2008. 

  A discussion of the anonymous nature of posting on wikipedia, and its effects, focussing on User:Griot.

• Mark A. Shiffrin; Avi Silberschatz (2008-02-13). "Making Wikipedia available anytime, anywhere", The Industry Standard. Retrieved on 13 February 2008. "There is an inherent value of knowledge freely compiled by the marketplace of thinking people, without the oversight of any government or individual society. This is knowledge any of us can take on our own terms and accept or reject in our judgment, without having been told by any government filter what we can or cannot think." 

  A Yale professor and a lawyer consider how even static copies of wikipedia are a revolutionary concept.

• DW staff (February 13, 2008). "Germany's Brockhaus Encyclopedia Goes Online" (in English), Deutsche Welle. Retrieved on 28 February 2008. "The 21st edition of the Brockhaus encyclopedia was likely the last in printed form. "Now, everything will happen online," the spokesperson said. "But, we will clearly distinguish ourselves from providers like Wikipedia, by banking on relevance, accuracy and reliability," the spokesperson said. "And, our information cannot be manipulated."" 

  Brockhaus, the most popular Encylopedia in Germany ceases paper publication because of competition from online information sources, specifically German Wikipedia.

• Parry, David (2008-02-11). "Wikipedia and the New Curriculum", Science Progress. Retrieved on 15 February 2008. 

  A professor says banning Wikipedia is not "just a silly policy", but "It is irresponsible for educational institutions not to teach new knowledge technologies such as Wikipedia."

• Kelly, Kevin (2008-02-12). "The Bottom is Not Enough". Retrieved on 16 February 2008. "I would guess that in 50 years a significant portion of Wikipedia articles will have controlled edits, peer review, verification locks, authentication certificates, and so on." 

  The piece isn't about Wikipedia per se, but it is quite relevant. It discusses the encyclopedia building process in wikipedia at present and speculates how it might evolve in the future. via guardian article

• "Area Man Honored To Be One Who Added Death Date To Heath Ledger's Wikipedia Page", The Onion (2008-02-16). 

  "CEDAR RAPIDS, IA—Blake Yardley, 34, told reporters Monday that he felt extremely humbled to have been the individual who, amidst the chaos and sadness of actor Heath Ledger's recent untimely passing, had the foresight and due reverence to add the death date to the star's Wikipedia page." (Note that The Onion is a parody newspaper publishing satirical articles.)

• Caroline Davies (February 17, 2008). "Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet", The Observer. Retrieved on 19 February 2008. "The traditional reason given for the Islamic prohibition on images of prophets it to prevent them from becoming objects of worship in a form of idolatry. But, say the editors, the images used were examples of how Muhammad has been depicted by various Islamic sects through history and not in a religious context." 

  More on the petition to remove images of the Prophet Muhammad.

• "Official proposes boycotting Wikipedia for sacrilegious act" (HTML), Islamic Republic News Agency (February 17, 2008), pp. 1. Retrieved on 19 February 2008. 

  Iranian news agency reports that an unnamed cultural official in Iran has called for a boycott in Islamic countries of Wikipedia due to their inclusion of the Danish cartoons caricaturing Muhammad. In this article it is claimed that "Wikipedia website servers are in the American state of Florida but it is apparently run from Britain."

• Lichfield, John (20 February 2008 ). "France's favourite encyclopaedia falls victim to Wikipedia", The Independant. Retrieved on 20 February 2008. "The 2008 edition of Quid, France's favourite encyclopaedia, has been cancelled by its publisher for lack of interest. ... Quid, produced by a family team for the past 45 years, has suffered especially at the hands of the French-language version of Wikipedia, the do-it-yourself web encyclopaedia." 

  France's most popular paper encyclopedia delays its next edition because of a sudden drop in demand attributed to the French Wikipedia. (See Quid (encyclopedia))

• Miliard, Mike (2008-02-21). "Wikipediots: Who are these devoted, even obsessive contributors to Wikipedia?", Salt Lake City Weekly. Retrieved on 21 February 2008. 

• Wilson, Chris (2008-02-21). "The Wisdom of the Chaperones", Slate. Retrieved on 21 February 2008. 

  Discussion of the power structure in Wikipedia and Digg.

• Horne, Marc (24 February 2008 ). "Scots finds home on gey muckle website", Scotland on Sunday. Retrieved on 24 February 2008. "AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA in the language of Rabbie Burns is now available at the click o' a moose. A Scots-language version of Wikipedia has already attracted more than 2,200 entries on subjects as diverse as "airchaeology" and "sodgerin". The English-language edition of the free online encyclopaedia has become one of the great success stories of the internet age with more than two million contributions. Scots enthusiasts, already buoyed by the SNP's decision to add the "mither tongue" to the school curriculum, have hailed the site as another shot in the arm for the long-neglected language. But the Scots Wikipedia has also been ridiculed as an embarrassing parody of the language used by Sir Walter Scott and Hugh MacDiarmid." 

• Boran, Marie (28 February 2008 ). "The man who wove the web", SiliconRepublic. Retrieved on 28 February 2008. ""Wikipedia is one of the most heart-warming things about the web. It is not the technology itself: it’s humanity."" 

  In an interview Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, gives his view of Wikipedia.

• "Department of Health banned from Wikipedia", PC Pro (2008-02-28). Retrieved on 29 February 2008. 

  A UK government minister is questioned in the House of Commons about his department's role in editing Wikipedia. The exchange is recorded in Hansard the official record of the Commons.

• Rosenberg, Mike (2008-02-28). "3-Minute Interview: Jimmy Wales", The Examiner. Retrieved on 29 February 2008. "" Q Is there anything dangerous about having all that information? A I don’t think so. I tend to be a very big fan of the notion that as citizens in a free society, we need access to information to make good decisions."" 

• "Wikipedia lock on 'greedy' police chief's page", Daily Telegraph (2008-02-29). Retrieved on 1 March 2008. 

  "A police chief has ordered staff to monitor an online enyclopaedia in order to stop users posting rude comments about him."

• "Blogger targets 'political' editing of Wikipedia in Beehive", New Zealand Herald (2008-02-28). Retrieved on 1 March 2008. 

• Chalmers, Robert (2008-02-24). "The lady vanishes: What ever happened to Fenella Fielding?", Arts & Entertainment: Film & TV: Features: Interview, The Independent. Retrieved on 29 February 2008. 

"[Fielding's] age has been the subject of some debate. She says she was 73 in November. Enemies, some of whom appear to have tampered with her Wikipedia entry, ungallantly ' assert that she has been with us slightly longer than that." (See also: discussion at Fielding's year of birth.)

March

• Baker, Nicholson (20 March 2008). "The Charms of Wikipedia", The New York Review of Books. Retrieved on 29 February 2008. "Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies—and it's free, and it's fast." 

• Baker (User:Wageless) reviews Wikipedia - The Missing Manual and ruminates on his experience and impressions as a user of and contributor to the encyclopaedia

• Naughton, Philippe (2008-03-03). "Jilted lover uses eBay to hit back at Wikipedia guru", Times. Retrieved on 3 March 2008. 

• One of the many reports of the consequences of the end of an affair between Rachel Marsden and Jimmy Wales. A write up of the story is available on the Wikipedia Signpost. Other outlets picking up the story include:

• ABC News: Wikipedia Founder Hit With Relationship Trouble, Allegations of Excessive Spending
• Daily Mail: Dumped Dot Com: How Wikipedia founder used his website to break off relationship - and how she used eBay to get revenge
• The Globe and Mail: Ms. Marsden's cyberspace breakup: tit-for-tat-for-T-shirt
• Metro: Dumped on Wikipedia, revenge on eBay
• New York Post: ONE WILD AND WIKI BREAKUP
• The Province: Spurned Rachel Marsden selling 'ex-boyfriend's' stuff on eBay
• The Sun: Wiki love-split cyber storm
• Sydney Morning Herald: Ex takes her revenge on Mr Wikipedia
• telegraph.co.uk: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales in online love spat
• The Times: Fury of a woman scorned – on Wikipedia
• Winnipeg Sun: Pundit peddles ex's items online

• McCarthy, Megan (2008-03-03). "Wikipedia Founder Hit With Relationship Trouble, Allegations of Excessive Spending", Wired Blog network, Wired. Retrieved on 5 March 2008. "Former associates of Wales' are using this scandal to bring up other worries they have about the organization at the foundation. Former Wikimedia exec Danny Wool, who left the foundation last year, wrote a blog post insinuating that Wales used the nonprofit foundation as his own personal piggy bank." 

• A report combining the Rachel Marsden incident with postings by Danny Wool on his blog. A write up of the story is available on the Wikipedia Signpost. Other outlets picking up the story include:

• The Associated Press, as reported in The Washington Post: Wikipedia's Wales Hit Over Expenses
• The Register: Ex-Wikipedia staffer harpoons Wales over expenses
• San Francisco Chronicle: Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales
• News.com: Wikimedia executive comes to Wales defense

• Warman, Matt (2008-03-06). "Wikipedia: A very modern encyclopedia", Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 6 March 2008. "The site can't always reflect what people know any more; it reflects what people think." 

  Asks if Wikipedia is becoming a victim of its own success and wonders if the fact that Britannica was always a little bit out of date was its main strength. A response to this piece was made:

• Henderson, Michael (2008-03-08). "What a mine of unreliable information", Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 9 March 2008. 

• Monitor (2008-03-06). "The battle for Wikipedia's soul", The Economist. Retrieved on 7 March 2008. 

• "The popular online encyclopedia, written by volunteer contributors, has unlimited space. So does it matter if it includes trivia?."

• Dokoupil, Tony (March 6, 2008). "Revenge of the Experts", Newsweek. Retrieved on 8 March 2008. "The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals." 

  Argues that the demand for reliable information will work against sites like Wikipedia to take traffic to new sites like Knol that pay professional experts to edit and produce online content. It calls this move Web 3.0.

• Howley, Kerry (March 2008). "Artifact: The World Needs Citations", Reason Magazine. Retrieved on 10 March 2008. "Wikipedia’s detractors criticize the online, user-written, constantly changing encyclopedia’s sometimes dubious sourcing, which they say makes it unreliable. Wikipedia’s defenders counter that the site’s mutable, fluid nature engenders a valuable skepticism toward all manner of too-trusted authorities. Nothing conveys Wikipedia’s openness to revision quite like “citation needed,” the bracketed phrase sprinkled throughout its pixellated scrolls." 

• Semuels, Alana (March 10, 2008). "Wikipedia's tin-cup approach wears thin", Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 10 March 2008. "With about 300 million page views a day, the site by some estimates could be worth many hundreds of millions of dollars if it sold advertising space. It doesn't. Wikipedia's business plan is, basically, to hold out a tin cup whenever it runs low on funds, which is very often." 

  Looks at how Wkipedia's budget is run on a shoestring. Includes an interview with Wikimedia Foundation, Executive Director Sue Gardner.

• Moses, Asher (March 11 2008). "More woes for Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales", Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 11 March 2008. 

  discusses deletion and protection of Jeff V. Merkey (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) by User:Jimbo Wales allegedly in return for donations. Merkey has alleged on the Wikia mailing list that I am notifying the foundation I was approached on Friday by the Associated Press regarding statements attributed to me which are in some way, perceived to be related to Mr. Wales private affairs which seem to have gotten a great deal of press coverage ... he then follows with a statement to Associated Press which includes the assertion: According to Merkey, in 2006, Wales agreed that in exchange for a substantial donation and other financial support of the Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wales would use his influence to make Merkey's article adhere to Wikipedia's stated policies with regard to internet libel "as a courtesty" [sic] and place Merkey under his "special protection" as an editor. The newspaper article links to the wikia mailing list thread and also to the revision history of the article.

  Associated Press do not appear to have picked up Merkey's press release and only a few independent news sources have also mentioned the incident. Wales responded on the mailing list that the allegation is nonsense and this too was reported by the SMH although noting The claim is the most damning yet against Wales

• Similar story at "Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales in donations row", The Daily Telegraph (12 March 2008). 
• Same incident covered by BBC News -- Staff (March 12, 2008). "Wiki boss 'edited for donation'", BBC News, BBC. Retrieved on 13 March 2008. 

• NewScientist.com news service (16 March 2008). "Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban", New Scientist, pp. 6. issue 2647. Retrieved on 11 March 2008. "Scientists who want to describe their work on Wikipedia should not be forced to give up the kudos of a respected journal. So says a group of physicists who are going head-to-head with a publisher because it will not allow them to post parts of their work to the online encyclopaedia, blogs and other forums." 

  "A group of excellent scientists" are involved in battle with the prestigeous science publisher Physical Review Letters over their right to also publish the material in a rights agreement compatible with Wikipedia.

• Cohen, Noam (March 16, 2008). "Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias", The New York Times. Retrieved on 19 March 2008. "It has never been easier to read up on a favorite topic, whether it’s an obscure philosophy, a tiny insect or an overexposed pop star. Just don’t count on being able to thumb through the printed pages of an encyclopedia to do it." 

  Looks at the world wide demise of print encyclopedias and how Wikipedia has come to dominate.

• Cohen, Noam (2008-03-17). "Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World", The New York Times. 

  General article about Wales and recent controversies such as Marsden, Danny Wool's allegations and Wales' relationship with Roger McNamee and Elevation Partners.

• Petrilli, Michael J. (Spring 2008). "Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?", Education Next, Hoover Institution. Retrieved on 20 March 2008. "As a K–12 educational tool, then, Wikipedia appears to pass the test, at least to the limited degree that any encyclopedia assists the learning process. Still, that doesn’t mean the site is perfect. As a resource about hot-button political issues, Wikipedia is notoriously subject to manipulation and spin. This is apparent in its treatment of education policy issues." 

  Compares ten articles in world and US history with their equivalents in Britannica.

• Maderazo, Jennifer Woodard (2008-03-21). "How to Be a Model Wikipedia Contributor", PBS. Retrieved on 22 March 2008. "In reading entries on the site, I recently found some where I thought I might be able to help, so I took it upon myself to get more involved in Wikipedia and try to add something, but I quickly found that I wasn’t doing things correctly and that my contributions weren’t well-received by the community." 

• Bergstein, Brian (2008-03-22). "Wikipedia Questions Paths to More Money", The Associated Press. Retrieved on 22 March 2008. "With 2 million articles in English alone, Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia "anyone can edit," stormed the Web's top ranks through the work of unpaid volunteers and the assistance of donors. But that means Wikipedia has far less financial clout than its Web peers, and doing almost anything to improve that situation invites scrutiny from the same community that proudly generates the content." 

• Dibbell, Julian (2008-03-22). "Wikiphobia and Web 2.0", Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 22 March 2008. 

  Reviews two up-coming books: Nicholas Carr's The Big Switch and Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody.

• Bruno, Antony (March 22, 2008). "Music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace", Reuters. Retrieved on 24 March 2008. "According to data provided to Billboard from Yahoo -- the second-most popular search engine on the Web after Google -- those searching for artist information are selecting the Wikipedia entry link over artists' MySpace pages by a factor of more than 2-to-1. The Wikipedia entries are also more popular than artists' Web sites." 

  In the last six months Wikipedia has become the first choice for music fans seeking information on artists because of its tight, focused and vetted overview of the subject.

• Kaplan, David (March 25, 2008). "Wikipedia Gets $3 Million Sloane Foundation Grant", Reuters. Retrieved on 26 March 2008. "The Wikimedia Foundation has picked up $3 million in grants from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The philanthropy will parcel out its grant in $1 million installments over three years to the non-profit group that runs Wikipedia." 

Further coverage at:

• Sloan Foundation to support Wikipedia's quality and growth initiatives - Wikimedia Press release, March 25, 2008
• Sloan Foundation gives Wikimedia Foundation $3 million - CNET News
• Wikipedia grabs record donation - PC Pro
• Wikipedia Nabs $3 Million--In Non-profit Funding - BusinessWeek
• Sloan Foundation to Give Wikipedia $3M - Associated Press

• Gonzalez, Tony (2008-03-27). "History of Hillsdale College wiki page", The Collegian (Hillsdale, Michigan), (official student newspaper of Hillsdale College). Retrieved on 27 March 2008. "Now nearly four years old, the Hillsdale College entry at Wikipedia has a led a relatively calm life for an encyclopedic entry open to revision by anyone with an Internet connection." 

related content surrounding Wikipedia and the college's article on Wikipedia:

• Gonzalez, Tony (2008-03-27). "Academic credibility of Wikipedia", The Collegian (Hillsdale, Michigan), (official student newspaper of Hillsdale College). Retrieved on 27 March 2008. "Professors light up at the mention of Wikipedia, whether they support or criticize the seemingly ubiquitous site." 
• Gonzalez, Tony (2008-03-27). "Wikipedia administrator (interview + vandalism timeline)", The Collegian (Hillsdale, Michigan), (official student newspaper of Hillsdale College). Retrieved on 27 March 2008. "The Wikipedia administrator has worked on several thousand pages, including the Hillsdale College article." 

• McNamara, Paul (2008-03-27). "Khoslas back Wikipedia to tune of $500K", NetworkWorld website. Retrieved on 27 March 2008. "Perhaps that's about to change, however, witness this afternoon's just-announced donation of $500,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's parent organization, by heavyweight venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neeru." 

• Wikimedia Foundation Receives $500K Donation - WikiMedia press release, March 24, 2008

• "Wikipedia superó los 10 millones de artículos" (in Spanish), Clarín (March 30, 2008). Retrieved on 30 March 2008. "La popular enciclopedia online alcanzó esa cifra con una entrada publicada en su versión húngara. El artículo cuenta la vida de un pintor inglés del siglo XVI que retrataba a los reyes de la época." 

  Article talks about Wikipedia reaching 10 million articles thanks to a Hungarian entry, Nicholas Hilliard.

• Gabriel Esteffan C. (March 30, 2008). "Wikipedia llega a los 10 millones de artículos" (in Spanish), La Tercera. Retrieved on 30 March 2008. "La enciclopedia colaborativa más grande del mundo llegó a tamaña cifra gracias a un artículo acerca de un orfebre y pintor inglés del siglo XVI." 

  This is the article being cited in the Clarín newspaper. It picks the information from a Wikimedia Foundation press release, Wikipedia Hits Milestone of Ten Million Articles Across 250 Languages.

• Cellan-Jones, Rory (31 March 2008). "Will Wikipedia always win?", BBC News Technology. Retrieved on 2 April 2008. "Of course, the brutal truth is that it is the reference entry which comes highest in a Google search which will win the readers. And for the foreseeable future that is likely to be the Wikipedia version - whether it is accurate or not." 

  The BBC's technology correspondent looks at the status of Wikipedia on achieving its 10 millionth article and compares its strengths and weaknesses with Knol and Citizendium.

April

• Gonzales, J.R. (April 1, 2008). "The joke's on Miss Ima", Houston Chronicle. "Seems the folks at Wikipedia are having a little fun at Ima Hogg's expense this April Fools' Day." 
• McCarthy, Caroline (April 1, 2008). "Wikipedia fudges the truth for April Fools' Day", News.com. "Whoever wrote the fake Ima Hogg bio might want to think about pursuing a career in screenwriting. It sounds more amusing than any of the movies I've seen recently..." 
• Soria, Chester (April 1, 2008). "Wikipedia remembers Ima Hogg", Houstonist.com. "Anybody who is worth their salt about Houston history knows Ima Hogg. You don't even need to be a Bayou City scholar in order to know of Ms. Hogg. Case in point, Wikipedia is shining a spotlight on the notoriously named philanthropist as its featured article of the day." 
• The Bryant Park Project (2008-04-03). "'Round the Clock: Obama, Clinton Wiki-Warfare", National Public Radio. Retrieved on 3 April 2008. "Wikipedia describes itself as the free encyclopedia anyone can edit — and by anyone, they mean anyone — which is a problem for Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY). After all, a Web search for either candidate will return his or her Wikipedia page, often as the second result. With so many eyes viewing those pages every day, the stakes are high — and for two unofficial minders, attempting to police those pages has become a 24-hour job." 

• Anthes, Gary (2008-04-07). "The end of the Internet as we know it? Jonathan Zittrain fears the worst" (HTML) (in EN), Computerworld, IDG, pp. 1-2. Retrieved on 17 April 2008. "Wikipedia has realized that this type of damage [vandalism] is a social problem that calls for social solutions. It polices itself according to an ethical code that encourages users to do the right thing rather than the required thing." 

  Interview with Jonathan Zittrain

• Fairbanks, Eve (2008-04-09). "Wiki Woman: The battle to define Hillary online", The New Republic. Retrieved on 24 March 2008. "A look at the travails of maintaining heavily-viewed pages - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama - in an increasingly volatile political season, and keeping them neutral, fair and comprehensive in the face of constant vandalism and inappropriately partisan attack editing. Interviews with a leading editor, Wasted Time R and others." 

• Johnson, Chris (April 3, 2008). "Edits to gay soldier’s Wikipedia entry traced to Pentagon", Washington Blade. Retrieved on 3 April 2008. "A Wikipedia article about Maj. Alan Rogers, a gay soldier who was killed in January in Iraq, was apparently edited by someone in the Pentagon, who removed any mention that Rogers was gay. ... Rob Pilaud, a patent agent and a friend of Rogers who attended the soldier’s funeral, restored the information to the Wikipedia article the next day. Pilaud was among Rogers’ friends who created the Wikipedia page. ... Pilaud is asking Rogers’ friends for biographical information on the fallen soldier to enhance the Wikipedia article. ... “With Wikipedia, at least, I simply want to present objective information about Alan — about who he was, what he did with his life and what he would have wanted,” he said." 

• AFP (April 4, 2008 ). "China eases Wikipedia controls", The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 4 April 2008. "Chinese censors seemed today to have relaxed their control of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, as reports from users suggested it was accessible in at least parts of the country." 

  Reporting a relaxation of the blocking of non Chinese language Wikipedias.

• Brown, Barrett (Spring 2008). "Information flow on Campus: A Closer Look at Wikipedia", 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, pp. 54-57. "... Wikipedia has grown enormously since its inception, and is fast becoming widely accepted as a verifiable academic resource. How reliable is Wikipedia? How does it work? And, can it be manipulated by third parties? ... In theory, Wikipedia is a collaborative internet encyclopedia which relies on peer review and procedure to keep a neutral point of view (NPOV). The evidence from my experiments and experience inside the Wikipedia social structure point to a slightly different reality. ... Quite simply, since the system is based on collaboration, it does not matter who is right; it matters who is agreed with the most. Therefore the Wikipedia system is flawed."  - [Article not available on line.]

This is a 3,225 word article critical of Wikipedia. The author talks about his experiences editing five specific Wikipedia articles and ends with a suggestion of how the CIA or al-Qaeda could gain increased control over Wikipedia's content. Copy with publisher's permission to reproduce is available here.

• Williams, Chris (2008-04-08). "Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article", The Register. Retrieved on 8 April 2008. "Phorm has admitted that it deleted key factual parts of the Wikipedia article about the huge controversy fired by its advertising profiling deals with BT, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse." 

• West, Steve (2008-04-08). "Martin Luther King, Jr Wikipedia Page Defiled" (HTML) (in EN), CinemaBlend. Retrieved on 10 April 2008. "Being such a good starting place for looking up info she went to Wikipedia and found that King’s entry had been reduced to one phrase: "im a n----r."" 

• "Wild Wiki Ways of Liam of the Lavaflow", Inside Cover, The West Australian (2008-04-08). Retrieved on 13 April 2008. "Some miscreant has being fiddling with Liam of Lebanon's Wikipedia entry. When we checked yesterday the former Perth shock jock was described as a "robotic journalist from Bikini Bottom"." 

Referring to this revision.

• Duffy Marsan, Carolyn (2008-04-09). "How the iPhone is killing the 'Net" (HTML) (in EN), Network World, IDG, p. 4. Retrieved on 17 April 2008. "In Chapter 6, Zittrain offers a glowing review of Wikipedia, from its humble origins to its success as one of the Internet’s most popular Web sites." 

  Review of The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain

• Baker, Nicholson (2008-04-10). "How I fell in love with Wikipedia" (HTML) (in EN), The Guardian. Retrieved on 10 April 2008. "Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast." 

An abridged version of the Baker's New York Review of Books article "The Charms of Wikipedia", listed above under March.

• Miller, John J. (2008-04). "Liberal web" (HTML) (in EN), National Review. Retrieved on 10 April 2008. "Wikipedia calls itself “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” It has become the most influential reference site on the web. It may even be the most influential reference source available anywhere, online or off. Its English-language edition carries more than 2.3 million articles, written by thousands of contributors who call themselves “Wikipedians.” These entries almost always rank high on Google searches... A couple of years ago, the journal Nature compared a sampling of scientific entries found on Wikipedia with those published in Encyclopedia Britannica. It determined that the newcomer was almost as trustworthy as the old hand... The most egregious examples of vandalism tend to be corrected quickly by devoted Wikipedians... Plenty o