Links to Wikimedia projects

http://wikimedia.org/

Stats on Wikipedia use and comparison to other sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics

View this video first. "Wikipedia is the 5th largest site on the Web."

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/186080/Wikipedia27s-Jimmy-Wales-How-35-Donations-and-Two-Dozen-People-Power-the-Web-Giant

Favorable review from Educause

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7026.pdf

"Among academics, however, Wikipedia continues to receive mixed — and often failing — grades."

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i10/10a03101.htm

Substantive article from the New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact

Article about Wikiscanner "that traces the comments and edits on Wikipedia entries back to their source IP address."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12823729

"[K]ids assume that the Wikipedia is a credible source of information and that all entries are accurate."

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/02/digital

Visualization of edits to Wikipedia, each color corresponds to a different page.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_visualizing

April 2007 Pew Internet and American Life Project Report

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Wikipedia07.pdf

Source: American Journalism Review; ``journalists find it very valuable as a road map to troves of valuable information``

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4461

Case Study: Kellogg School of Management

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/greenstein/images/htm/Research/Cases/Wikipedia.pdf

Audio file: ``Nature reporter Mark Peplow discusses the Nature survey.``

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5055388

``Refuting the recent study on encyclopedic accuracy by the journal Nature`` (March 2006)

http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf

Nature 438, 900-901 (15 December 2005)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html

The Nature study review scientific term entries.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html

http://www.nmc.edu/library/how/pathfinders/Wikipedia%20and%20Britannica.pdf

From University of Brighton (UK)

http://tinyurl.com/2k5g8g

"a new Web tool offers proof that you shouldn't use Wikipedia to write your school reports"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12823729

"managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer forbids the use of Wikipedia to verify facts of a story"

http://www.editorsweblog.org/2008/02/us_top_papers_reference_wikipedia_and_ra.php

"appeared in obituaries published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine website"

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html

USA Today Editorial

http://tinyurl.com/cyogx

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/07/congressmans_wikipedia_entry_m.html

Britannica Response to Nature Article

http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf

``Wikipedia has become a site where people fight culture wars.``

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/express/nobodys-safe-in-cyber-space

Looks at false information on U.S. Congressman, Steve La Tourette

http://searchengineland.com/070807-085103.php

Wikipedia ``suck[s] when it comes to science topics.``

http://epidemix.org/blog/?p=72

http://tinyurl.com/59n6lo

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/12942

``delay changes from appearing until someone in authority (a designated checker) has verified that the changes are not vandalism

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/wikipedia-tries-approval-system-to-reduce-vandalism-on-pages/

"[K]ids assume that the Wikipedia is a credible source of information and that all entries are accurate."

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/02/digital

New York Times article

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/wikipedia-may-restrict-publics-ability-to-change-entries/

Source: CQ Researcher

http://www.cqpress.com/docs/CQ_Researcher_V18-27_Internet_Accuracy.pdf

June 26th, 2007 blog post

http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/966-of-wikipedia-pages-rank-in-googles-top-10/

``Microsoft Live Search expanded the description that appears below Wikipedia results.``

http://searchengineland.com/080530-195700.php

``Are single Wikipedia entries receiving the benefit of the doubt by Google’s algorithm because of the strength of the domain?``

http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/googles-new-algorithm-ifdomainwikipediaorgrank1/

Provides % of referrals from Google

http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_080514.pdf

``More than 95% of all Wikipedia entries rank in the top ten results on Google for their respective topics``

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/wikipedia-the-barry-bonds-of-search-results/5938/

``lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time``

http://www.wikirage.com/

``traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources``

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

http://wired.reddit.com/wikidgame/?s=top

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html#submit

"An empirical assessment of its reliability reveals that it varies widely from topic to topic."

http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/1951/42589/3/wiki-na-cap.pdf

"Why the online encyclopedia’s epistemology should worry those who care about traditional notions of accuracy."

https://www.technologyreview.com/web/21558/

"Wiki-dispute resolution ignores the content of user disputes, instead focusing on user conduct."

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1354424

Hoffman PPT

http://sites.kauffman.org/ksli/resources/7-1%20Hoffman%20-%20Wikitruth%20Through%20Wikiorder.PPT

Wikiality - "If your make something up and enough people agree with you, it becomes reality."

http://spring.newsvine.com/_news/2006/08/01/307864-stephen-colbert-causes-chaos-on-wikipedia-gets-blocked-from-site

"WikiTrust: based on a simple concept: The longer information persists on the page, the more accurate it’s likely to be."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/

``federal law immunizes the Wikimedia Foundation from liability for statements made by its users``

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/wikipedia-wins-dismissal-baseless-defamation-claim

Protection for ``Good Samaritan``:Treatment of publisher of information provided by another information content provider

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/230.html

Wikipedia Search Engines

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_ways_to_search_wikipedia.php

http://www.wikiwix.com/?lang=en

"find relevant English Wikipedia articles that have similar content to a blog, news article, or an entire web page"

http://www.similpedia.org/