Wikipedia in the media
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Please do not list any instances of Wikipedia being a product placement or a mere reference; for those, see Wikipedia in culture.

2008

• November 10 – The ABC (Australia) program Media Watch cited the definition of "troll" from the Wikipedia article. (transcript)
• June 30 – MASN, during their live telecast of the Baltimore Orioles — Kansas City Royals baseball game from Baltimore, Maryland, quoted the Wikipedia article about the checked swing, displaying a paragraph from the article as an on-screen graphic.

2007

• December 4 - Dr J Craig Venter, in his 2007 Richard Dimbleby Lecture, entitled A DNA-driven world on BBC One on Tuesday December 4, 2007 cited the Wikipedia definition of Disruptive technology.¹
• April 25 - WPDH disk jockey John Tobin referred to Wikipedia for the correct age of The Early Show weatherman Dave Price when talking to him on the air.
• January 30 - Live! With Regis and Kelly featured the Qat disambiguation page. Guest cohost Pat Sajak referred to Qat in a discussion about Scrabble. Producer Michael Gelman then handed Sajak a laptop with the page and host Kelly Ripa read the definitions.
• January 15 - On Penn Radio, Penn Jillette and Michael Goudeau use Wikipedia as a source.

2006

• November 24 - On BBC News 24 television coverage of the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning case a reporter can been seen using Wikipedia for background research. During a segment giving in depth coverage on what Polonium 210 is, the reporter interviewing a chemist could clearly be seen holding notes with the infobox from Wikipedia's Polonium page visible on the top.
• August 30 - The Discovery Channel show MythBusters showed host Jamie Hyneman browsing Wikipedia in the episode Earthquake Machine. The specific article on screen cannot be identified clearly, though Hyneman is said to be researching the design of Nikola Tesla's Houston Street laboratory.
• August 25 - Disc jockey at KZLT in Grand Forks cited Wikipedia's World's Largest Buffalo page, noting the humour in turning the sculpture into a Chia pet, as reported in the article.
• July 19 - The Discovery Channel show MythBusters showed Grant Imahara looking at the Wikipedia article Calorimeter in testing the myth of which had more nutritional value: Cereal box or Cereal.
• May 31 - Sveriges (Swedish) Television story on The Pirate Bay cited the Wikipedia article.
• April 14 - Little Atoms, on London's Resonance FM, used the article on Peter Tatchell as a source (MP3 of the whole interview).
• March 25 - Bruce Feiler, author of Walking the Bible (book) (ISBN 0380807319) is shown in a PBS television program of the same name. He goes into an internet cafe to research information about Mount Ararat in connection to Noah's Ark. Video of Wikipedia's entry on Marco Polo is shown while Feiler's voice over explains that Marco Polo visited Mount Ararat in 1254. The on-screen video of the Wikipedia article is not making that claim however, it is showing that Marco Polo was born in 1254. The Marco Polo article does not even mention Mount Ararat directly, though it does mention that Marco Polo traveled in the general area of the mountain.
• February 20 - CNN Headline News story about the new KKK referenced Wikipedia for brief list of stats and facts about the organization.
• January 23 - Wikipedia article on Rachelle Waterman was featured on CNN Headline News (Nancy Grace).

2005

• January 13 - While discussing Prince Harry of Wales's wearing of a Nazi uniform at a fancy dress party during BBC Radio Five Live's morning phone-in, presenter Victoria Derbyshire read the final paragraph of the introductory section of the Swastika article (on its origin and significance in eastern religions) — unfortunately without attributing it!

• Australian interview program Enough Rope uses Wikipedia as a link for its very high profile interviewee, Mark Latham. The interview was subect to legal gags, forced off the air, screened later and thus front page news in Australia on 16 September. Due to the late screening, many will go to the program's website to follow up.

2004

• January 24 - Weekend Edition Saturday correction about first TV sitcom references Mary Kay and Johnny

2003

• October 31 - Talk of the Nation Science Friday references Ötzi the Iceman

• June 20 - Talk of the Nation Science Friday references Quantum entanglement

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