Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-12-04/In the news

Brown row indicates the news item is "In the News" for this week
KEY: (c) Continuing Coverage • (s) Wikipedia as Source

Topic	Source type	Source name	Notes
quality	online pub	FirstMonday.org	"This short study examines Wikipedia’s credibility by asking 258 research staff with a response rate of 21 percent, to read an article and assess its credibility, the credibility of its author and the credibility of Wikipedia as a whole." Counter intuitively, experts rated the quality of Wikipedia articles higher than the general public... ars technica coverage slashdotted TechSpot
local	smallcirc news	Connecticut Post	Local point of interest "Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow" has an article in Wikipedia
quality	largecirc news	linux insider	Article describing a Boston Globe article on Wikipedia's quality including vandalism problems, etc.
source	smallcirc news	Shenandoah valley	Uses Wikipedia to define podcast
quality	self pub	The Dominion	Article on quality including experiment by Alexander M.C. Halavais who purposely put in diverse false information edits. He was surprised when "less than three hours after he posted them, all of his false facts had been deleted."
quality	univ news	Univ of Nebraska-Omaha The Gateway	Article on student's use of Wikipedia as a source, instructors advice that some articles are not referenced, there is no "peer-review", and it is a general encyclopedi which shouldn't be a source anyway. "Students should aim to exceed all encyclopedic resources at the college level."
Wales/History	largecirc news	NewsDay	Article on Wales and Newmark (founder of Craigslist), history of Wikipedia, quotes from Sanger (claiming Wales took credit for his work). Points out weakness, use of amatuers, is also a strength that lets Wikipedia be up-to-the-minute.
quality	smallcirc news	Iowa City Press Citizen	interview of local professor, Frank Durham, who said "it demonstrates how online information may be manipulated and therefore must be questioned." and "It is a fine entry point, but it shouldn't be the stopping point. I don't think Wikipedia is firm ground."
quality	univ news	Univ of Nebraska - Omaha The Gateway	"Many UNO professors put a halt to Wikipedia.com in the classroom" - three objections - lack of resources, lack of peer review, and encyclopedias should be used as starting points not final source information.
source	univ news	Jurist	References Wikipeda as sorce for background info on former Mexican President Luis Echeverria.
China	largecirc news	CBS News	Wikipedia in china is watered down, and Baidu Baike, which uses content from Wikipedia, sanitizes teh content to present information under an "editorial policy [that] is centered on not 'judging the existing national system with malice.'"
quality	univ news	Chips (student news of Luther College)	Gives background on Wikipedia, quotes Nature article, local professor discourages users from using it, while another one says it is a good place to start research.
quality	gossip smallcirc	Gawker	Covers the AfD for Jamie Isaac Conde descendent of Conde Nast.
China	news	International Herald-Tribune	Discussion of the santitized versions of articles in the Chinese Wikipedia, even though it is blocked there. How collaboration has resulted in a different worldview in Chinese than in English.
wikipedians	Independent news	Philadelphia City Paper	coverage of the Philadephia Meetup.
source	??	Media Post Publications	Uses Wikipedia as source for definition of and example of a "wiki"
old news	??	Free Market News	Coverage of using a wiki process for intelligence gathering
source	??	The Toronto Star	Sources Wikipedia for definition of cocktail rings and dinner rings.
China	largecirc news	NY Times Cnet	Coverage of differences in articles on Chinese events on different language versions of Wikipedia slashdotted S Africa Mail & Guardian
source	largecirc mag	The New Scientist	Uses two diagrams (Image:LevyFlight.png and Image:BrownianMotion.png) from Lévy flight to illustrate its article "Locating Locating Locating" (Online version requires subscription), cited as "Source:Wikipedia".
quality	midcirc news	Wisconsin State Journal	Discussion of using Wikipedia in school. Advise to check sources for any encyclopedia including Wikipedia. Feeling from students that professors don't like students to use them as a source.
process	largecirc news	Washington Post	Coverage of AfD process, quotes several Wikipedians go give examples of discussions on specific AfD discussions. Noted that the discussions are generally courteous. blog on Post article
Iran	various	The Sidney Morning Herald	coverage of Iran's block of Wikipedia The Guardian (quoted in User:Michael Snow/International split
Wales/History	largecirc news	Chicago Sun-Times	Coverage of "Whales" (article consistently spells name wrong) background as a trader on the Chicago Merchantile Exchange. Additional short bio information on Jimbo.
Criticisms	blog/self pub	Renew America	Kinsey critic, Dr. Judith A. Reisman, criticises information in the Wikipedia entry about her. Jimbo as pornographer claim made.
quality	TV news article	WBRZ-2	Reports on research by "ETS, originally the Educational Testing Service, [that] after evaluating the responses of 6,300 college and high school students ... Just 52 percent of test takers could correctly judge the objectivity of a Web site." Mentions Wikipedia as one of the sites that students should be suspect of.
quality	smallcirc news	Yakima Herald	Editorial on "anniversary" of Seigenthaler Incident is used as a vehicle to advocate for government oversight of potentially libelous statements made on the internet. The article concludes: "But the most frightening aspect is not that this happened to John Seigenthaler. It's that without congressional repair of a flawed federal act, this could happen to any of us."
funding	blog/self pub	Glossy News	Article advocating the use of opt-in ads on Wikipedia where Users "could enable the option of viewing ads."
source	smalltown news	Lodi News	references town's article on being "authentic piece of Alabama in California's Central Valley." Vandalism added by 74.61.234.97 and on Wikipedia for 26 minutes. Also includes other items currently in the trivia list.
source	smalltown news	The Villages Daily Sun	References W for background on Budd Company, “a railroad legend.”
impact	specialty news	Internet Business Law Services	uses example of History of virtual learning environments to show how Wikipedia helped the Software Freedom Law Center find evidence of prior art in a patent infringement case.
ads	online news	SmartBiz	advocates using Wikipedia as a "free Web space" to grow your business
blocked	foriegn news	Persian Journal	coverage of iran's block of W. "'We have asked the judiciary, who are in charge of filtering, to explain the decisions on all the sites specified but so far the only reply we have is a confirmation of the block on Wikipedia. We don't know why.'" [according to] a technician with Datak."
source	foriegn news	Oh My News (S Korean)	Sources Wikipedia for influence of Basketball
source	foriegn news	Persian Journal	sources W for background on Baha'i faith.
source	local news	Sante Fe New Mexican	sources W for background on Retail therapy
source	indy news (S Africa)	Tonight	W for background on David Attenborough
mention	sports news	NBC Sports	Mentions that W has already updated the Sugar Bowl contenstants for 2007
Patron saint	largecirc news	The Boston Globe	St Isidore, patron saint of the internet, and publisher of Etymologies an encyclopedia of human knowledge. Etymologies is compared to Wikipedia by arstechnica's commentary on the article.
changing nature of information	univ news	University of Waterloo Imprint	In a speech addressing the changing nature of information and authority, Dr. Peter J. Nicholson, cites "Wikipedia as the 'single best example' of this authoritative paradigm shift." And claims W's success is due to it being "in synch with Web culture."
source	midcirc news/blog	Orlando Sentinel blog	Sources W for background on Saint Joseph
source	largecirc news/blog	Houston Chronicle blog	Credits W for helping him within 20 sec find image from "the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by the artist Michelangelo in the 16th century. Caption under the picture calls the painting 'a classic conception of the Christian God.'"
inteliwiki	largecirc news	NY Times Magazine	Bio on Matthew Burton and his efforts to get technology into the CIA including a wiki for intelligence gathering

Dominion article[edit]

This article is actually from the Chronicle of Higher Education and was reported on previously on November 20, 2006. howch e ng {chat} 21:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - I hadn't noticed that - I was probalby blinded by the excitement to juxtapose it with the other article :O Since Signpost is "published" page I will not be taking it out though --Trödel 21:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]