Of all the dozens of articles about Wikipedia's tenth anniversary, I enjoyed this one at Wired.
I thought I knew Wikipedia quite well but several of the following weird facts are new to me. Some of them may even be untrue, but most seem plausible.
http://wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/ten-facts-about-wikipedia/
All of those things are true, to my knowledge :)
There's a page to collect Wikipedia10 media coverage at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage
-- phoebe
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Of all the dozens of articles about Wikipedia's tenth anniversary, I enjoyed this one at Wired.
I thought I knew Wikipedia quite well but several of the following weird facts are new to me. Some of them may even be untrue, but most seem plausible.
http://wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/ten-facts-about-wikipedia/
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 12/01/2011 23:59, phoebe ayers wrote:
All of those things are true, to my knowledge :)
There's a page to collect Wikipedia10 media coverage at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage
Three pieces of BBC coverage today: a World Service documentary (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2011/01/110111_wikipedia_at_...) and a short report from Jimbo's party on the PM programme (radio). Also main BBC TV news with User:Chase Me Ladies, I'm the Cavalry. There was a Financial Times piece, and something in The Economist (? - not seen that yet). All-in-all that page seems to need work.
Charles
The Economist is in there. The FT piece probably isn't because they've paywalled their site.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 12/01/2011 23:59, phoebe ayers wrote:
All of those things are true, to my knowledge :)
There's a page to collect Wikipedia10 media coverage at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage
Three pieces of BBC coverage today: a World Service documentary ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2011/01/110111_wikipedia_at_... ) and a short report from Jimbo's party on the PM programme (radio). Also main BBC TV news with User:Chase Me Ladies, I'm the Cavalry. There was a Financial Times piece, and something in The Economist (? - not seen that yet). All-in-all that page seems to need work.
Charles
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
The Signpost (on en-wikipedia) is also collecting news articles as well, and may have better English-language coverage (the other site is good as a starting point for the worldwide coverage, but attempting to be comprehensive with something like that is laudable if difficult - at some point the coverage of Wikipedia outstripped the ability of Wikipedians to document it - wonder what that says about Wikipedia).
In fact, I have a theory that Wikipedia makes only *part* of the Internet not suck. (that should be in a new post).
Carcharoth
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
The Economist is in there. The FT piece probably isn't because they've paywalled their site.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 12/01/2011 23:59, phoebe ayers wrote:
All of those things are true, to my knowledge :)
There's a page to collect Wikipedia10 media coverage at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage
Three pieces of BBC coverage today: a World Service documentary ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2011/01/110111_wikipedia_at_... ) and a short report from Jimbo's party on the PM programme (radio). Also main BBC TV news with User:Chase Me Ladies, I'm the Cavalry. There was a Financial Times piece, and something in The Economist (? - not seen that yet). All-in-all that page seems to need work.
Charles
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 14 January 2011 21:30, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 12/01/2011 23:59, phoebe ayers wrote:
All of those things are true, to my knowledge :)
There's a page to collect Wikipedia10 media coverage at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage
Three pieces of BBC coverage today: a World Service documentary (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2011/01/110111_wikipedia_at_...) and a short report from Jimbo's party on the PM programme (radio). Also main BBC TV news with User:Chase Me Ladies, I'm the Cavalry. There was a Financial Times piece, and something in The Economist (? - not seen that yet). All-in-all that page seems to need work.
Charles
For those in the UK, the PM bit can be found on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xb0sp (about 39 minutes in).
Pete / the wub