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Examples where the media has reported (and in some cases, mis-reported) on Wikipedia.

Contents 1 Self-Aggrandizement 2 Dated links 2.1 2008 2.2 2007 2.3 2006 2.4 2005 2.5 2004 3 Other links

[edit] Self-Aggrandizement

• Hooray! We've been mentioned in the The Guardian! April 13 2006

[edit] Dated links

[edit] 2008

• "Transcripts of Wikipedia founder's sex chats", Valleywag, February 29 2008.
• "Money for nothing, chicks for free?" - by Danny Wool, All's Wool that Ends Wool, March 1 2008.
• "Canadian pundit, Wikipedia founder in messy breakup", CBC News, March 2 2008.
• "Jilted lover uses eBay to hit back at Wikipedia guru" - by Philippe Naughton, The Times, March 3 2008.
• "Wikipedia founder embroiled in online spat with ex-lover" - by Dan Grabham, Techradar.com, March 3, 2008.
• "Spurned Rachel Marsden selling 'ex-boyfriend's' stuff on eBay", The Province, March 3 2008.
• "Pundit peddles ex's items online" - by CP, Winnipeg Sun, March 3 2008.
• "Wikipedia break-up causes web stir" - by JJ O'Donoghue, Webuser, March 3 2008.
• "Wikipedia Founder Hit With Relationship Trouble, Allegations of Excessive Spending" - by Megan McCarthy, Wired News, March 3 2008.
• "Wikipedia's Wales defends breakup, expenses" - by Brian Bergstein (Associated Press), USA Today, March 4 2008.
• "Wiki breakup calls for eBay revenge", St. Petersburg Times, March 5 2008.
• "Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales accused of expenses rort" - by Asher Moses, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 5 2008.
• "Wikipedia founder's dirty laundry" - by Will Pavia and Philippe Naughton, The Australian, March 5 2008.
• "More woes for Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales" - by Asher Moses, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 11 2008.

[edit] 2007

• "Wikipedia Qatar ban 'temporary'", BBC News, January 2 2007.
• "Ooops: Wikipedia blocks posts from Qatar" - by Jim Krane, USA Today, January 4 2007.
• "Wikipedia: garbage in, garbage out" - by John Bambenek, MercatorNet, January 4 2007.
• "How do I get into Wikipedia?" - by Paul Boutin, ValleyWag, January 8 2007.
• "Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia" - by Brian Bergstein, Wired News, January 24 2007.
• "The real-time encyclopedia" - by Richard Rushfield, Los Angeles Times, February 25 2007.
• "Wikipedia entry causes pro-golfer Fuzzy Zoeller to sue" - by Alex Zaharov-Reutt, iTWire, February 25 2007.
• "Rescued by Wikipedia" - by Timothy Noah, Slate, February 26 2007.
• "Look Who's Using Wikipedia" - by Bill Tancer, Time, March 1 2007.
• "A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side" - by Noam Cohen, The New York Times, March 5 2007.
• "Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia" - by Anselm Spoerri, First Monday, March 11 2007.
• "Wikipedia Shakeup: Resignations Point to Trouble at the Top" - by Kim Zetter, Wired News, March 23 2007.
• "Wicked-pedia: 'Why the online encyclopedia makes me want to scream'" - by Petronella Wyatt, Daily Mail, April 22 2007.
• "Sand Castles of Knowledge" - by Kyle Gann, artsJournal, May 5 2007.
• "Wikipedia Is Just the Start: An Interview With Jimmy Wales" - by Dylan Tweney, Wired News, May 29 2007.
• "Wikipedia and Beyond: Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision" - by Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason Magazine, June 2007.
• "Duality of Wikipedia" - by Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail, June 15 2007.
• "Some Errors Defy Fixes: A Typo in Wikipedia’s Logo Fractures the Sanskrit" - by Noam Cohen, New York Times, June 25 2007.
• "Web Time Stamps Indicate Benoit Death Reported About 14 Hours Before Police Found Bodies" - by Blane Bachelor, FOX News, June 28 2007.
• "Benoit death information was "coincidence," Wikipedia poster says" - by Eric Stirgus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 28 2007.
• "Wikipedia: All the News That's Fit To Print Out" - by Jonathan Dee, The New York Times, July 1 2007.
• "Wikipedia disrespects experts says co-founder" - by Marie Boran, Silicon Republic, July 16 2007.
• "You could look it up: He changed the world" - by Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle, July 19 2007.
• "Wikipedia - Can Teenagers Write An Encyclopedia?" - by Sam Vaknin, Global Politician, July 22 2007.
• "The disinformation highway" - by Damian Corless, Independent.ie, July 31 2007.
• "Cheers and Boos as Wikipedians See Themselves on Film" - by Noam Cohen, The New York Times, August 4 2007.
• "Wikipedia wars erupt" - by David Sarno, Los Angeles Times, September 30 2007.
• "Wikipedia uncovered" - by Stuart Andrews, Australian PC Authority, September 2007
• "Six Japanese Wikipedia 'editors' rapped", The Scotsman, October 6 2007.
• "Delete generation rips encyclopedia apart" - by Ian Douglas, The Age, October 13 2007.
• "Wikipedia at war with Web comic strips" - by Paul McNamara, Network World, October 31 2007.
• "Why the idea of paid entries annoys Wikipedia", Mail & Guardian, November 9 2007.
• "Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia" - by Cade Metz, The Register, December 4 2007.
• "Inside, Wikipedia is more like a sweatshop than Santa's workshop" - by Seth Finkelstein, The Guardian, December 6 2007.
• Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain, The Register, December 6, 2007.
• "Students 'should use Wikipedia'" - by Alistair Coleman, BBC News, December 7 2007.
• "Teachers: Feel my Truthiness - Jimbo" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, December 7 2007.
• "Wikipedia COO was convicted felon" - by Cade Metz, The Register, December 13, 2007.
• "Ex-Wikipedia COO Has Record" - by Richard Mullins, The Tampa Tribune, December 19, 2007.
• "Know-It-All Wikipedia Knew Little of COO's Dark Past" - by Richard Mullins, Mac News, December 21, 2007.
• "Former Wikipedia Officer Found To Have Long Criminal Record" - by Brian Bergstein, The Associated Press, December 22, 2007.

[edit] 2006

• "Wikipedia editing hobby goes nationwide" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, January 19 2006.
• "Wikipedia target of House 'editors'" - by Evan Lehmann, North Adams Transcript, January 30 2006.
• "Profs knock Wikipedia" - by Brittany Anas, Daily Camera, February 6 2006. (login required)
• "Bias, sabotage haunt Wikipedia's free world" - by David Mehegan, The Boston Globe, February 12 2006.
• "Site throws schools a Wiki'd curve" - by Nicole Gaudiano, The Indianapolis Star, March 1 2006.
• "Nature mag cooked Wikipedia study" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, March 23 2006.
• "University president's bio smeared online" - by Bill Sloat, The Plain Dealer, March 25 2006
• "Putting Wikipedia to the truth test" - by Elaine Wang, The Sun Herald, April 4 2006.
• "The Great Failure of Wikipedia" - by Jason Scott, textfiles.com, April 8 2006. (transcript)
• "Wikipedia site filled with major mistakes" - by Warren Boroson, The Daily Record, April 11 2006.
• "A thirst for knowledge" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Guardian, April 13 2006.
• "Wikipedia Protest Site 'A Hoax' - Founder" - by Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb, April 17 2006.
• "Wales and Sanger on Wikipedia" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, April 18 2006.
• (ja) "Wikipedia"の編集方針に抗議する"Wikitruth"が公開" - by Shingo Yuki, PC Web / Mainichi Communications, April 18 2006.
• (ru) "Wikitruth раскрывает "секреты" Wikipedia" (Wikitruth reveals Wikipedia "secrets") - by Владимир Парамонов (Vladimir Paramonov), Компьютерра (Compulenta), April 18 2006.
• "The Wikipedia FAQK" - by Lore Sjöberg, Wired News, April 19 2006.
• "Campaign manager resigns amid Wikipedia flap" - by Peter Hamby, CNN, April 26 2006.
• "Wikipedia Proves Fertile Ground for Political Shenanigans" - The New York Times, April 30 2006.
• "Turf Wars: Wikipedia spars with a splinter site for truth" - by Julian Dibbell The Village Voice, May 2 2006.
• "Wikipedia strikes again", The Tennessean, May 4 2006.
• "Cuts both ways" - by Russell Brown, New Zealand Listener, May 6-12 2006.
• "Chinese 'Wikipedia' launched", The Daily Telegraph, May 11 2006.
• "Wikipedia Promotes Free Speech, Encourages "Global Conversation"" - by Tim Receveur, U.S.A. Department of State, May 22 2006.
• "The death of Wikipedia" - by Nicholas Carr, Rough Type, May 24 2006.
• "Now, let's bury the myth" - by Nicholas Carr, Rough Type, May 25 2006.
• (no) "Herr Wiki besøker Bergen" (Mr. Wiki visits Bergen) - by Jon Tufto, bt.no, May 29 2006.
• "The real bias in Wikipedia" - by Robert McHenry, openDemocracy, June 7 2006.
• "Coke gets slammed on Wikipedia" - by Ryan Mahoney, Atlanta Business Chronicle (MSNBC), June 11 2006.
• "Avoid Wikipedia, warns Wikipedia chief" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, June 15 2006.
• "Growing Wikipedia Refines Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy" - by Katie Hafner, New York Times, June 17 2006.
• "Here come the Wikipedia police" - by Ivor Tossell, The Globe and Mail, June 23 2006.
• "Wikipedia may be fallible, but we'd be crazy to stop consulting it" - by Robbie Hudson, The Times (UK), June 25 2006.
• "The Six Sins of the Wikipedia" - by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., Global Politician, June 26 2006.
• "Wikipedia a lesson on verifying research" - by Linda Knapp, Seattle Times, July 1 2006.
• "Death by Wikipedia: The Kenneth Lay Chronicles" - by Frank Ahrens, The Washington Post, July 9 2006.
• "Spawn Of Wikipedia" - by Alice LaPlante, InformationWeek, July 14, 2006.
• "Catholic high school sues over Wikipedia posting", Fremont Tribune (Associated Press), July 22 2006.
• "Know It All" - by Stacy Schiff, The New Yorker, July 24 2006.
• "Why Wiki Can Drive You Wacky" - by Bernard Haisch, Los Angeles Times, July 24 2006.
• "Defacing Wikipedia" - by Brian C. Wilson, PopMatters, July 26 2006.
• "Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence", The Onion, July 26 2006. (satire)
• "How Accurate Is Information On Wikipedia?", NBC10.com, July 27 2006.
• "School sues over Wikipedia posts" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, July 28 2006.
• "Wikipedia mocked by Stephen Colbert, The Onion" - by Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, August 1 2006.
• "Why I Quit Wikipedia" - by Mike Harris, Musings of a Chicagoan, August 2 2006.
• "Can Wikipedia Handle Stephen Colbert's Truthiness?" - by James Montgomery, MTV News, August 3 2006.
• "It's on Wikipedia, So It Must Be True" - by Frank Ahrens, The Washington Post, August 6 2006.
• "Wikimania 2006: Geek nation" - by Gary Younge, The Guardian, August 9 2006.
• "Wikipedia Empire Based on Open Source Worst Practices?" - by Thomas Lord, Dasht, August 11 2006.
• "Wikipedia geeks battle scourge of vandals and sock puppets" - by Gary Younge, The Guardian, August 14 2006.
• "Gutknecht joins Wikipedia tweakers" - by Kevin Diaz, Star Tribune, August 16 2006.
• "Gutknecht Caught Attempting To Edit Wikipedia Bio", WCCO (Associated Press), August 17 2006.
• "Read at your own risk: Wikipedia politics play loose with facts" - by Mara Lee, Evansville Courier & Press, August 24 2006.
• "German Wikipedia plans to stop vandals" - by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News, August 24 2006.
• "The Hive - Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong?" - by Marshall Poe, The Atlantic, September 2006.
• "Questions of credibility make for a sticky Wiki" - by Tom Best, Winona Daily News, September 3 2006.
• "Who Writes Wikipedia?" - by Aaron Schwartz, Raw Thought, September 4 2006.
• "Irwin's Wikipedia page defaced", NEWS.com.au, September 4 2006.
• "Wikimedia's First GC Prepares to Tread 'Legal Minefield'" - by Andy Peters, LAW.COM, September 7 2006.
• "Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?" - an exchange between Jimmy Wales and Dale Hoiberg, The Wall Street Journal, September 12 2006.
• "New Citizendium to correct Wikipedia's wrongs?" - by Ken Fisher, ars technica, September 19 2006.
• "Wikipedia co-founder looks to add accountability, end anarchy" - by Jonathan Sidener, The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 23 2006.
• "Guerrilla Wikipedians rate rival's chances" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, September 23 2006.
• "I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here" - by Seth Finkelstein, The Guardian, September 28 2006.
• "Giving the Heave-Ho in an Online Who's Who" - by Noam Cohen, The New York Times, October 8 2006.
• "Wikipedia founder signs up academics for rival site" - by Stephen Foley, The Independent, October 18 2006.
• "A better version of Wikipedia?" - by Kirsten Smith, channel4.com, October 20 2006. (contains audio)
• "Wikipedia and the Trust Factor" - by Paul Vallely, The Independent, October 22 2006.
• "Niles West student accused of threat" - by By Liam Ford and Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, November 1 2006.
• "Wikipedia Blaster 'fix' points to malware" - by John Leyden, The Register, November 3 2006.
• "Critic whacks Wikipedia", St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 4 2006.
• "Critic of user-contributed Wikipedia identifies entries with evidence of plagiarism" - Anick Jesdanun, Northwest Indiana Times, November 4 2006.
• "More Accurate Wikipedia Warnings" - by Brian Sack, CRACKED.com, November 16 2006.
• "Archive gives access to Web's past" - by Jake Coyle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 25 2006.
• "Look Me Up Under 'Missing Link'; On Wikipedia, Oblivion Looms for the Non-Notable" - by David Segal, The Washington Post, December 3 2006.
• "For the record, Wikipedia has some roots in Chicago" - by Brad Spirrison, Chicago Sun-Times, December 4 2006.
• "Wikipedia semen shortage filled by User Generated Content" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, December 20 2006.

[edit] 2005

• "A Criticism of Wikipedia Now Exceeding a Scream" - by Jason Scott, textfiles.com, January 3 2005.
• "Wikipedia is a real-life Hitchhiker's Guide: huge, nerdy, and imprecise" - by Paul Boutin, Slate Magazine, May 3 2005.
• "Swastikipedia" - by Jason Scott, textfiles.com, May 4 2005.
• "Wikipedia: The Agony of Delete" - by Rogers Cadenhead, August 31 2005.
• "Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia" - by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News, September 25 2005.
• "Information quality discussions in Wikipedia" - by Besiki Stvilia, et al., October 19 2005. (PDF)
• "Can you trust Wikipedia?" - by Mike Barnes, The Guardian, October 24 2005.
• "Wikipedia: magic, monkeys and typewriters" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, October 24 2005.
• "Why Wikipedia isn't like Linux" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, October 27 2005.
• "Can you trust Wikipedia?" - by Elvira van Noort, Mail & Guardian (South Africa), November 7 2005.
• "A false Wikipedia 'biography'" - by John Seigenthaler Sr., USA Today, November 29 2005.
• "The Danger of Wikipedia", Editor and Publisher, November 30 2005. (login required)
• "Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar" - by Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, December 3 2005.
• "What Wikipedia doesn't want you to know..." - by Rex Curry, OpinionEditorials.com, December 5 2005.
• "Help, I've Been Wiki'ed!" - by Michael Graham, Charleston City Paper, December 7 2005.
• "Unreliable (adj): log on and see" - by Rosemary Righter, The Times (UK), December 9 2005.
• "Wikipedia hoaxster found, but a solution for Wikipedia is still lacking" - by Ken "Caesar" Fisher, ars technica, December 11 2005.
• "There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility'" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, December 12 2005.
• "'Open Source Content' Has No Quality Control" - by David Coursey, Ziff-Davis eWEEK, December 13 2005.
• "Online encyclopedias put to the test" - by Stephen Cauchi, The Age, December 14 2005.
• "Founded On Porn, Wikipedia Shapes The Way You Think" - by Jennifer Monroe, December 15 2005.
• "Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, December 16 2005.
• "Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems" - by Andrew Orlowski, The Register, December 18 2005.
• "Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1" - by Rogers Cadenhead, December 19 2005.
• "Wikipedia, Porn and the Airbrushing of History" - by Jeremy Wagstaff, December 20 2005.
• "Putting Wikipedia Flap in Perspective" - by Dan Gillmore, December 23 2005.
• "Identity question for world's encyclopaedia" - by Rhys Blakely, The Times (UK), December 30 2005.

[edit] 2004

• "Fuck Wikipedia", Another blog is possible, May 20 2004.
• "Why Wikipedia sucks. Big time" - by Horst Prillinger, June 2 2004.
• "Wikipedia Reputation and the Wemedia Project", quoting many people criticizing Wikipedia and others rebutting them. - by Ross Mayfield, August 29 2004.
• "From Aaan to ZZ Top" - by Jo Twist, BBC News, September 6 2004.
• "The Great Failure of Wikipedia" - by Jason Scott, textfiles.com, November 19 2004.
• "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" - by Larry Sanger (co-founder of Wikipedia), Kuro5hin, December 31 2004.

[edit] Other links

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• Wikirage - Tracks popularly edited articles on Wikipedia
• Wikiscanner - Locates anonymous edits by organization or internet address
• Wikipedia Review.com - Webforum operated by banned Wikipedia members
• Wikipedia Watch - Examines the phenomenon of Wikipedia