Wikipedia:Press coverage 2004
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English
January
- Prospect Magazine: The Microsoft killers cites Wikipedia as an example of the "open-source" ethic moving beyond software. Feb 2004.
- Emerging Technology: Internet-Era Democracy: Can the World Wide Web give ordinary people a shot at true populism? Discover Magazine cites Wikipedia as an example of how the public can be harnessed. Jan 2004.
- Image Conscious Fast Company Magazine discusses a study of "collaboratively written or edited document"s, History Flow, headed by a member of IBM's research division, Martin Wattenberg. Written by Scott Kirsner, January 2004 issue (#78), page 38.
- The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2004, The Journal Report, Technology; Business Solutions by Michael Totty. "There is even a wiki encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) where anyone can add or amend entries."
- Popular Science, February 2004 mentions wikipedia.org among a few sites on the web as "Where to turn on the net for scientific bolstering" on page 65 in the print version, and here in the online version.
- Today Linux, Tomorrow the World? Tech Central Station very briefly mentions Wikipedia saying, "Just as the open source movement can point to valuable software, it is also producing some interesting things in other areas, such as the popular encyclopedia Wikipedia...," in an article about open source titled Today Linux, Tomorrow the World?. January 22, 2004.
- Online reference to reach milestone from The Mercury News talks about Wikipedia and its impending 200,000 article milestone. January 25, 2004. Reprinted in Siliconvalley.com, Bradenton Herald, FL, Biloxi Sun Herald, MS, The Kansas City Star, MO, Miami Herald
- Microsoft Notebook: Wiki pioneer planted the seed and watched it grow from Seatttle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop is an article on Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki concept. Wikipedia is mentioned as the largest wiki on the web. The article also has quotes from Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales. January 26, 2004.
February
- Prospect, "The Microsoft Killers", pp. 54-58, Feburary 2004 edition; uses Wikipedia as an example of an open content project. "Open source software has come of age, and open source working methods are spreading beyond computers."
- Far Eastern Economic Review issue dated February 19, 2004: Wikipedia:It's Wicked (registration required). Enthusiastic reportage, notes the 200,000th English article and the Asian languages Wikipedia is available in. (Also posted to Usenet at [1]).
- The Internet Column: WIKI REMARKS from Scotsman.com has an article on Wikis in general. Quote: "The best known [Wiki] is Wikipedia, an encyclopaedia written entirely using the wiki system. Anyone browsing through Wikipedia can edit any page; so if you know a lot about a specific subject, you can add your knowledge to that subject’s page easily." February 16, 2004.
Please note that Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source is where to view or add articles in which the media uses Wikipedia as a source, but doesn't explicitly talk about the project itself.
German
- Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes an article by Eloquence about wikipedia. It includes statements from the German Wikipedia press-liaison and from Brockhaus, the publisher of a German Encyclopedia. January 30, 2004
Arabic
- In February 13th, An article about Wikipedia appeared in Linux4Arab.com. Hundreds read the article, and this posting, along with postings to mailing lists of LUGs and Open Source projects were the main reasons for the boost in Arabic Wikipedia had afterwards.
Hungarian
- Wikipedia was a topic of Digitális (Digital) in the national radio "Kossuth" on February 11, 2004. (Number of registered editors jumped from 50 to 125.)