"Wikipedia for Journalists" By Sree Sreenivasan Columbia Professor & Poynter Visiting Professor Poynter Online

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126

Here's an excerpt: "So far, the effort has created numerous reference-quality articles as wide ranging as the Hutton Inquiry, algorithms, social history of the piano, origins of the American Civil War, and severe acute respiratory syndrome. As its quality has improved, news publications have increasingly cited Wikipedia on subjects such as Wahhabism, crony capitalism, folk metal, British 'honours' system, Abdul Qadeer Khan and extinct animals. It has even been used in litigation, when in July 2003, a Wikipedia article on profanity was cited in a motion to dismiss a case in a Colorado court."

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