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Wikipedia vandal fighter is profiled

An independent newspaper from British Columbia, The Tyee, profiles User:Tawker (Andrew). The article discusses the efforts of Wikipedians to revert edits made by users that vandalize articles. It presents a case study of what happened when Stephen Colbert challenged his audience to use wikiality to insert false information into Wikipedia. It concludes with a discussion of joke edits, anonymous vandalism, and the rise of using bots to fight vandalism on Wikipedia.

Archiving the Internet

The Associated Press carried a story that was picked up by various local newpapers regarding efforts to "remember" websites that die. Brief mention is made of Wikidumper.org, a website that is described as "trying to save the ever-changing web." However, the article concludes that "any information not truthful enough to make it into Wikipedia is probably dubious twice over..."

Teen reporter covers Wikipedia

The Winston-Salem Journal carried an article titled "Check It Out: Wikipedia useful, with precaution." Teen reporter, Kyle Anderson, gives an overview of Wikipedia, covers criticisms of the anyone-can-edit model, and recommends that users verify information found on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia exemplifies collaboration

The National Post interviews Don Tapscott about his new book, Wikinomics, which analyses the power of collaboration and holds up Wikipedia as an example.

Wikipedia as source

eCommerceTimes references Wikipedia's article on Information asymmetry in an article titled "Information Asymmetry: Shattered by Technology."
JewishJournal.com uses Wikipedia as a source for biographical information about Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer from TV's Seinfeld) in coverage of his recent controversial remarks.

Continuing coverage

China reblocks - Coverage of China's unblock and reblock continue, with some news still reporting the unblock as current news. PC Authority (unblock), TechNewsWorld (reblock), Legalbrief (reblock), InformationWorldReview (unblock), and The Sydney Morning Herald (reblock)
Citizendium - Purdue University newspaper, the Purdue Exponent carried an article which quotes local assistant professor of communication, Sorin Matei, on Citizendium's goals and promise.

Also this week: Arbitration series — Steward elections — Name usage — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration

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Topic	Source type	Source name	Notes
Brown row indicates the news item is "In the News" for this week
KEY: (c) Continuing Coverage • (s) Wikipedia as Source
Deleted Wikipedia entries	Wire Service	The Associated Press	A story that has been talked about on blogs for for several weeks, was mentioned in an AP story on archive.org. Coyle describes Wikidumper.org as "trying to save the ever-changing web." Concluding that "Any information not truthful enough to make it into Wikipedia is probably dubious twice over..."
really old	LargCirc Mag(US)	Discover	Update on visual images of edits by Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research for evolution
wikinomics	LargeCirc news	National Post	Interview of author of Wikinomics, a new book analysing the power of collaboration, including an analysis of Wikipedia's success(?)
general	SmallCirc news(US)	Winston-Salem Journal	Teen reporter gives overview of Wikipedia, criticisms of the anyone-can-edit model, and recommends users verify information found on Wikipedia
tawker	Indy news(CA)	The Tyee (British Columbia)	Interview of User:Tawker and his use of bots, how they applied to the Stephen Colbert Wikiality television segment, and discussion of vandalism and joke edits.
Citizendium(US)	Univ News	The Exponent Online]	Student newspaper story on Citizendium brief quotes Sorin Matei, assistant professor of communication at Purdue
source	Online finance	eCommerceTimes	References Wikipedia's article on Information asymmetry to define the term.
China unblock	comp mag(AU)	PC Authority(unblock)	Coverage of China's unblock and reblock continue, with some news still reporting on the unblock
	comp mag(US)	TechNewsWorld(reblock)
	law online(ZA)	Legalbrief](reblock)
	comp mag(UK)	InformationWorldReview(unblock)
	largcirc news(AU)	The Sidney Morning Herald(reblock)
Wikipedia CD	Press Release	p2pnet.net	2,500 entries from the English Wikipedia have been made available for download. The selected articles "aim [to] help schools enhance their curriculum, and [help] children learn."
Public Art Registry	Press Release	Press Release	In a challenge reminescent of Jimbo's October posting "Dream a little," the Public Art Registry is seeking $100,000,000 to create "the first and only on-line catalog of global public art and architecture."
source	online news	JewishJournal.com	uses Wikipedia as a source for biographical infomation on Micheal Richards

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