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• - Lovely forum discussion.
  
• - Provides a basic history, plus some limitations of using a wiki as an encyclopedia.
  
• - Wikipedia founder responds to a dozen highly moderated questions.
  
• - Larry Sanger's responses to commentary contained in recent (late 2004) articles criticisizing or questioning the reliability of Wikipedia content.
  
• - Criticisms of Wikipedia and of arguments used by its admirers.
  
• - Summary primarily of the positive aspects and milestones of the online encyclopedia.
  
• - Short article describing one individual's experiences.
  
• - Proclaims that the use of Wikipedia is a good source for basic background information for journalists.
  
• - Early concerns about Wikipedia's concept.
  
• - Journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli. Explains the success of Wikipedia thanks to a solution to the problem of the submission of undesirable pieces of information.
  
• - Blog entry. Describes the author's process of putting errors into Wikipedia and watching for corrections to them. Suggests how fact-checking needs to be improved at Wikipedia, and gives ideas for further experiments.
  
• - Chinese censors have blocked access to Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information.
  
• - Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica, wonders about the Wikipedian assumptions that writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive and that articles will eventually reach a very high degree of ac
  
• - Wikipedia can now be downloaded to a handheld. The English, German, French, Dutch and Esperanto Wikipedias can be browsed on a handheld or Windows PC with TomeRaider as viewer (shareware).
  
• - Article and commentary about the growing group of projects which fall under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella.
  
• - Opinion article by Andrew Orlowski suggesting that Wikipedia has a long way to go before it's a stand-in for libraries and scholarly publications.
  
• - Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger writes, "Wikipedia does have two big problems, and attention to them is long overdue. These problems could be eliminated by eliminating a single root problem."
  
• - Wikis have become the latest battleground in the presidential election as users of online encyclopedia Wikipedia squabble over entries related to President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry.
  
• - Offers excerpts from previous articles written on open source projects, and offers arguments that support it.
  
• - Teacher discusses students citing Wikipedia and when that is appropriate.
  
• - Attempts to look at the core issues of collaborative editing: accuracy and trust.
  
• - Commentary by Andrew Orlowski. "Our jibe that the Wikipedia is the world's most useless encyclopedia drew precisely two angry responses. But both illustrate the condition perfectly."
  
• - Dan Gillmor explains what a wiki is, and how Wikipedia can be a success.
  
• - Overview of Wikipedia's growth, quality, and editing process.
  
• - Early article that describes the advantages of an open-source encyclopedia, plus its shortcomings.
  
• - Offers brief overview, similar projects, and issues with vandalism.
  
• - Provides several reasons of why Wikipedia will have problems.