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[[Image:020926-O-9999G-015.jpg|thumb|Pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group, "Tuskegee Airmen," the elite, all-African American 332nd Fighter Group at Ramitelli, Italy., from left to right, Lt. Dempsey W. Morgan, Lt. Carroll S. Woods, Lt. Robert H. Nelron, Jr., Capt. Andrew D. Turner and Lt. Clarence P. Lester.]]
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The '''Tuskegee Airmen''' ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA pronunciation]]: {{IPA|[təˈski.gi]}}<ref>See [http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Tuskegee Pronunciation of Tuskegee].</ref>) was the popular name of a group of [[African American]] pilots who flew with distinction during [[World War II]] as the [[332nd Fighter Group]] of the [[United States Army Air Forces|US Army Air Corps]].
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==Origins==
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[[Image:P-51C bomber escort.jpg|thumb|right|Aircraft of the 332d Fighter Group; the "redtails" of the Tuskegee Airmen. The nearest aircraft depicted is that of Lt. Lee Archer, the only ace among the Tuskegee Airmen.]]
Prior to the Tuskegee Airmen, no US military [[aviator|pilots]] had been African American. However, a series of legislative moves by the [[United States Congress]] in 1941 forced the Army Air Corps to form an all-black combat unit, much to the War Department's chagrin. In an effort to eliminate the unit before it could begin, the War Department set up a system to accept only those with a level of flight experience or higher education that they expected would be hard to fill. This policy backfired when the Air Corps received numerous applications from men who qualified even under these restrictions.
The US Army Air Corps had established the [[Psychological Research Unit 1]] at [[Maxwell Army Air Field]], [[Alabama]], and other units around the country for aviation cadet training, which included the identification, selection, education, and training of pilots, [[flight officer|navigator]]s and [[bombardier (rank)|bombardier]]s. Psychologists employed in these research studies and training programs used some of the first [[standardized tests]] to quantify [[IQ]], [[dexterity]], and [[leadership]] qualities in order to select and train the right personnel for the right role (bombardier, pilot, navigator). The Air Corps determined that the same existing programs would be used for all units, including all-black units. At Tuskegee, this effort would continue with the selection and training of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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==Training==
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On [[19 March]] [[1941]], the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Pursuit being the pre-World War II descriptive for "Fighter") was activated at [[Chanute Field]] in [[Rantoul, Illinois]].<ref> Francis 1988, p. 15. Note: It was a lawsuit or the threat of a law suit from a rejected candidate that caused the USAAC to accept black applicants.</ref> Over 250 enlisted men were trained at Chanute in aircraft ground support trades. This small number of enlisted men was to become the core of other black squadrons forming at Tuskegee and Maxwell fields in Alabama– the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
[[Image:040315-F-9999G-024.jpg|thumb|left|Major James A. Ellison returns the salute of Mac Ross of Dayton, Ohio, as he passes down the line during review of the first class of Tuskegee cadets; flight line at US Army Air Corps basic and advanced flying school, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1941 with Vultee BT-13 trainers in the background.]]
In June 1941, the Tuskegee program officially began with formation of the [[99th Fighter Squadron]] at the [[Tuskegee Institute]], a highly regarded university founded by [[Booker T. Washington]] in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]].<ref> Thole 2002, p. 48. Note: The Coffey School of Aeronautics in Chicago was also considered.</ref> The unit consisted of an entire service arm, including ground crew, and not just pilots. After basic training at [[Moton Field]], they were moved to the nearby [[Tuskegee Army Air Field]] about 16 km (ten miles) to the west for conversion training onto operational types. The Airmen were placed under the command of Capt. [[Benjamin O. Davis Jr.]], one of the few African American [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] graduates. His father [[Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.]] was the first black general in the US Army.
During its training, the 99th Fighter Squadron was commanded by white and Puerto Rican officers, beginning with Capt. George "Spanky" Roberts. By 1942, however, it was Col. Frederick Kimble who oversaw operations at the Tuskegee airfield. Kimble proved to be highly unpopular with his subordinates, whom he treated with disdain and disrespect. Later that year, the Air Corps replaced Kimble with Maj. Noel Parrish. Parrish, counter to the prevalent racism of the day, was fair and open-minded, and petitioned Washington to allow the Tuskegee Airmen to serve in combat.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}
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In response, a hearing was convened before the [[House Armed Services Committee]] to determine whether the Tuskegee Airmen "experiment" should be allowed to continue. The committee accused the Airmen of being incompetent — based on the fact that they had not seen any combat in the entire time the "experiment" had been underway. To bolster the recommendation to scrap the project, a member of the committee commissioned and then submitted into evidence a "scientific" report by the [[University of Texas]] which purported to prove that Negroes were of low intelligence and incapable of handling complex situations (such as air combat). The majority of the Committee, however, decided in the Airmen's favor, and the 99th Pursuit Squadron soon joined two new squadrons out of Tuskegee to form the all-black [[332nd Fighter Group]].
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==FormattingCombat==
[[Image:99th Fighter Squadron patch.jpg|thumb|right|Patch of the 99th Fighter Squadron]]
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The 99th was ready for combat duty during some of the Allies' earliest actions in the [[North African campaign]], and was transported to [[Casablanca]], [[Morocco]], on the ''[[USS Mariposa]]''. From there, they travelled by train to [[Oujda]] near [[Fes]], and made their way to [[Tunis]] to operate against the [[Luftwaffe]]. The flyers and ground crew were largely isolated by racial segregation practices, and left with little guidance from battle-experienced pilots. Operating directly under the [[Twelfth Air Force]] and the XII Air Support Command, the 99th FS and the Tuskegee Airmen were bounced around between three groups, the 33rd FG, 324th FG, and 79th FG. The 99th's first combat mission was to attack the small but strategic volcanic island of [[Pantelleria]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] between [[Sicily]] and [[Tunisia]], in preparation for the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]] in [[July]] [[1943]]. The 99th moved to Sicily while attached to the [[33rd Fighter Group]],<ref name="duc"/> whose commander, Col. [[William Momyer|William W. Momyer]], fully involved the squadron, and the 99th received a [[Distinguished Unit Citation]] for its performance in Sicily.
**"Relevant/representative quote here."
[[Image:020903-o-9999b-098.jpg|thumb|left|Tuskegee Airmen in front of a <br />[[Curtiss P-40|P-40]].]]
The Tuskegee Airmen were initially equipped with [[Curtiss P-40|P-40 Warhawk]]s, later with [[P-47 Thunderbolt]]s, and finally with the airplane that they would become most identified with, the [[P-51 Mustang]].
On [[27 January]] and [[28 January]] [[1944]], German [[Fw 190]] fighter-bombers raided [[Anzio Campaign|Anzio]], where the Allies had conducted amphibious landings on [[January 22]]. Attached to the 79th Fighter Group, eleven of the 99th Fighter Squadron's pilots shot down enemy fighters, including Capt. Charles B. Hall, who shot down two, bringing his aerial victory total to three. The eight fighter squadrons defending Anzio together shot down a total of 32 German aircraft, and the 99th had the highest score among them with 13.<ref name="kills">Haulman, Dr. Daniel L. ''Aerial Victory Credits of the Tuskegee Airmen''. AFHRA Maxwell AFB. [http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070207-059.pdf] Access date: [[16 February]] [[2007]].</ref>
==January==
*Klemm, Aaron E. "Motivation and value of free resources: Wikipedia and PlanetMath show the way". ''Free Software Magazine''. January 1, 2005<small>[http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_01/wiki_value/]</small>
::"Wikipedia is blurring the lines of production with astounding success."
*Krowne, Aaron. "The FUD-based Encyclopedia: Dismantling fear, uncertainty, and doubt, aimed at Wikipedia and other free knowledge resources." ''Free Software Magazine''. January 3, 2005. <small>[http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/]</small>
::"I have never used an encyclopedia as much as Wikipedia and I thank the Wikipedia community for what they have created. Countless others share these sentiments. Wikipedia has enhanced my life and brought considerable progress to society."
*Rupley, Sebastian. "Wikis at Work." ''PC Magazine''. January 3, 2005. <small>[http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=141231,00.asp]</small>
::"One of the more robust wikis is at www.wikipedia.com, which bills itself as "the free encyclopedia." It is a multilingual, open-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit."
*Till, Francis. "Tsunami blogging: The curl in the wave, first hand." ''National Business Review''. January 4, 2005. <small>[http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1747640,00.asp]</small>
::"You can get a really good consensus picture of what's going on that's stronger than any one news organization could offer," Jimmy Wales, founder of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, told ''Silicon Valley''. "So many people are on the ground in different places. And people pick up very quickly which are the bloggers to read, and they bring that information to the forefront and amplify it."
*Tanner, Alex. "Design fair restructures in light of disaster." ''Netimperative'' (UK). <small>[http://www.netimperative.com/2005/01/4/Design_fair2/view]</small>
::"Alex Steffen from worldchanging.com and Jimmy Wales of wikipedia have been drafted into the programme [the Doors of Perception design symposium] to assist."
*Gapper, John. "A new entrant to the knowledge market." ''Financial Times''. January 5, 2005. <small>[http://news.ft.com/cms/s/67bc195c-5f54-11d9-8cca-00000e2511c8.html]</small> (available free).
::"The only instant reference work is Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia written by anybody who wants to contribute. If you look now (www.wikipedia.org), there is a first draft of history, with a simulation of how the tidal wave spread across the ocean, a table of estimated deaths in different countries and links to entries on related subjects." (entire article about Wikipedia)
*Johnson, Bobbie. "Emergency services." ''The Guardian''. January 6, 2005. <small>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1383611,00.html]</small>
::"Within a few hours of the quake, users were logging on to communal online encyclopedia Wikipedia and compiling a breakdown of what had occurred, including scientific analysis, links to news articles and ways to give aid."
*Author unknown. "Love at first site as Wikipedia keeps growing." ''Jewish Chronicle''. January 7, 2005.
::"Wikipedia recently celebrated its one millionth entry which, I am delighted to reveal, was a Hebrew article on the Kazakhstan flag - well, someone's going to be interested".
::A quote from The Guardian on vandalism and reversions follows.
The squadron won its second [[Distinguished Unit Citation]] on [[12 May]]-[[14 May]] [[1944]], while attached to the 324th Fighter Group, attacking German positions on Monastery Hill ([[Battle of Monte Cassino|Monte Cassino]]), attacking infantry massing on the hill for a counterattack, and bombing a nearby strong point to force the surrender of the German garrison to [[Moroccan]] [[Goumier]]s.
*Mustard, Laurie. "Strollin' thru Wikipedia . . ." ''Winnipeg Sun''. January 8, 2005. <small>[http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Winnipeg/Laurie_Mustard/2005/01/08/833438.html]</small>
[[Image:100th Fighter Squadron patch.jpg|thumb|right|Patch of the 100th Fighter Squadron]]
::"I have found the most fascinating website titled Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and you're going to love it." (entire column about Wikipedia)
By this point, more graduates were ready for combat, and the all-black [[332nd Fighter Group]] had been sent overseas with three fighter squadrons: the [[100th Flying Training Squadron|100th]], [[301st Fighter Squadron|301st]] and [[302nd Fighter Squadron|302nd]]. Under the command of Col. [[Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.|Benjamin O. Davis]], the squadrons were moved to mainland [[Italy]], where the 99th FS, assigned to the group on [[1 May]], joining them on [[6 June]]. The Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group escorted bombing raids into [[Austria]], [[Hungary]], [[Poland]] and [[Germany]].
Flying escort for heavy bombers, the 332nd racked up an impressive combat record, often entering combat against greater numbers of superior German aircraft and coming out victorious. Reportedly, the Luftwaffe awarded the Airmen the nickname, "Schwarze Vogelmenschen," or "Black Birdmen." The Allies called the Airmen "Redtails" or "Redtail Angels," because of the distinctive crimson paint on the vertical stabilizers of the unit's aircraft. Although bomber groups would request Redtail escort when possible, few bomber crew members knew at the time that the Redtails were black.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}
*Naughton, John. "Why encyclopaedic row speaks volumes about the old guard." ''The Observer''. January 9, 2005. <small>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1386027,00.html]</small>
[[Image:tuskegee airmen.jpg|thumb|left|Tuskegee Airmen gathered at a US base after a mission in the Mediterranean theater.]]
::Writing about the current debate about Wikipedia Naughton opines: "five years from now, when the Wikipedia is essential infrastructure, we'll hardly remember what the fuss was about."
While it had long been said that the Redtails were the only fighter group who never lost a bomber to enemy fighters,<ref>[http://www.pingry.k12.nj.us/about/articles/2002-nov-11-tuskegee.html Lt. Col. Thomas E. Highsmith, Jr.; speech at The Pingry School, 8 November 2002]</ref> suggestions to the contrary, combined with Air Force records and eyewitness accounts indicating that at least 25 bombers were lost to enemy fire, resulted in the Air Force conducting a reassessment of the history of this famed unit in the fall of 2006.
The claim that the no bomber escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen had ever been lost to enemy fire first appeared on [[24 March]] [[1945]]. The claim came from an article, published in the [[Chicago Defender]], under the headline "332nd Flies Its 200th Mission Without Loss." Ironically, this article was published on the very day that, according to the [[28 March]] [[2007]] Air Force report, some bombers under 332nd Fighter Group escort protection were shot down.<ref> ''Report: Tuskegee Airmen lost 25 bombers''. The Associated Press, [[1 April]] [[2007]]. [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-01-tuskegee-airmen_N.htm] Access date: [[1 April]] [[2007]].</ref><ref>[http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2006/12/11/539246.html Comcast.net news; Access date: [[11 December]] [[2006]] (Article ID:539246)]</ref><ref>''Ex-Pilot Confirms Bomber Loss, Flier Shot down in 1944 was Escorted by Tuskegee Airmen''. Washington Post, [[17 December]] [[2006]], p. A18.</ref><ref>AP Story [[29 March]] [[2007]]</ref> The subsequent report, based on after-mission reports filed by both the bomber units and Tuskegee fighter groups as well as missing air crew records and witness testimony, was released in March 2007 and documented 25 bombers shot down by enemy [[fighter aircraft]] while being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen.<ref>Report: ''Tuskegee Airmen lost 25 bombers''. The Associated Press, [[2 April]] [[2007]]
*Terdiman, Daniel. "Wikipedia Faces Growing Pains" ''Wired News''. January 10, 2005. <small>[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66210,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2]</small>
[http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=17731] Access date: [[10 April]] [[2007]].</ref>
::On the tension between academic credibility and collaboration, and concludes with, "The question, then, is what people should expect of Wikipedia. As it grows and becomes a repository of 2 million entries from more and more contributors, more of whom are experts in their fields, it probably will be seen as on par with the Britannicas of the world. But first it must convince those experts to become involved, and that will likely mean finding a way to make them feel welcome.."
A [[B-25]] bomb group, the [[477th Bombardment Group (Medium)]], was forming in the US but completed its training too late to see action. The 99th Fighter Squadron after its return to the United States became part of the 477th, redesignated the 477th Composite Group.
*Corkery, Paul. "Wikipedia reinvents information searching." ''The Triangle''. January 14, 2005.<small>[http://www.thetriangle.org/news/2005/01/14/SciTech/Wikipedia.Reinvents.Information.Searching-833083.shtml]</small>
::Regardless of its risk of inaccuracy, Wikipedia exists as a noteworthy experiment relating to the idea of Internet users to come together in the spirit of knowledge and learning. What had the potential to become a public toilet of misinformation exists instead as one of the most successful examples of a human oriented, self policing collaborative education effort.
By the end of the war, the Tuskegee Airmen were credited with 109 Luftwaffe aircraft shot down,<ref name="kills"/> a patrol boat run aground by machine-gun fire, and destruction of numerous fuel dumps, trucks and trains. The squadrons of the 332nd FG flew more than 15,000 sorties on 1,500 missions. The unit received recognition through official channels and was awarded a [[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Distinguished Unit Citation]] for a mission flown [[24 March]] [[1945]], escorting B-17s to bomb the [[Daimler-Benz]] tank factory at [[Berlin, Germany]], an action in which its pilots destroyed three [[Me-262]] jets in aerial combat. The 99th Fighter Squadron in addition received two DUCs, the second after its assignment to the 332nd FG.<ref name="duc"> ''Air Force Historical Study 82''. AFHRA Maxwell AFB. [http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/numbered_studies/916794.pdf] Access date: [[16 February]] [[2007]].</ref> The Tuskegee Airmen were awarded several [[Silver Star Medal|Silver Stars]], 150 [[Distinguished Flying Cross (USA)|Distinguished Flying Cross]]es, 14 [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Stars]] and 744 [[Air Medal]]s.
::I cannot, because of the reasons pointed out by various resources, plug Wikipedia as the be-all-end-all research tool. However, Wikipedia itself represents a noteworthy use of the Internet and its growing pool of users. Coordinated development projects, as well as national and international Internet based communities and the technologies used in their operation, offer a fascinating look into the lesser known value of how the world's premier communication tool deals with information.
In all, 992 pilots were trained in Tuskegee from 1940 to 1946; about 445 deployed overseas, and 150 Airmen lost their lives in training or combat.<ref>http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1356</ref>
==Postwar==
::Wikipedia, despite its potential flaws, builds upon the noble foundation upon which the Internet was formed - A digital world in which the free exchange of information and knowledge brings the world together through the sharing of ideas and concepts.
[[Image:tuskegee airman poster.jpg|thumb|Color poster of a Tuskegee Airman]]
Far from failing as originally expected, a combination of pre-war experience and the personal drive of those accepted for training had resulted in some of the best pilots in the US Army Air Corps. Nevertheless, the Tuskegee Airmen continued to have to fight [[racism]]. Their combat record did much to quiet those directly involved with the group (notably bomber crews who often requested them for escort), but other units were less than interested and continued to harass the Airmen.
All of these events appear to have simply stiffened the Airmen's resolve to fight for their own rights in the US. After the war, the Tuskegee Airmen once again found themselves isolated. In [[1949]] the 332nd entered the yearly gunnery competition and won. After segregation in the military was ended in [[1948]] by President [[Harry S. Truman]] with [[Executive Order 9981]], the Tuskegee Airmen now found themselves in high demand throughout the newly formed [[United States Air Force]].
* Burt, Steve. "A Wiki-margin for the Internet". ''eSchool News''. January 12, 2005. <small>[http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2005/01/000434.php]</small>
::Well ... perhaps wikis won’t quite take off this year to the degree that weblogs did in 2004, but there is not doubt in my mind that you will be hearing much more about wikis in the months to come. If you are not familiar with wikis, they are open-editable web pages. That is, pages which you can edit the content by simply clicking on one button (usually an ‘edit’ tab) from within your browser. Take a look at Wikipedia to find out a bit more.
::If you want to begin experimenting with Wikis right away and you have Firefox installed on your machine, then I’d urge you to visit Wikalong.org and download the wikalong extension. This extension embeds a wiki in the sidebar of your browser, indexed off the url of the current page you are visiting. That is, wikalong builds a ‘parallel’ wiki for any page you visit. Thus, you can comment, discuss and wax philosophical about any issue on a page you are visiting.
::In terms of how you and your students could use wikalong, on the simplest level it can be used as a running commentary or parallel blog to whatever page you are looking at. Of course, you can embed links to point to other interesting pages. Simple note-taking or really anything else that you might use a blog, wiki or discussion board for. In addition to the panoply of possible uses, the other strength of wikalong is that you-as-the-user don’t have to install anything on a server or rely on any IT support beyond having Firefox and knowing how to surf the Web.
::Tim Lauer originally pointed me towards this tool so as you get it installed you’ll see a bit of commentary between he and I on some of these pages. You’ll notice that Wikalong has a log-in feature which allows posters to connect with each other.
Many of the surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen annually participate in the Tuskegee Airmen Convention, which is hosted by [[Tuskegee Airmen, Inc]].
* ''Atticus''. ''The Sunday Times'' (London). January 16, 2005. <small>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1442838_2,00.html]</small>
*:"It must be where [[Tony Blair]] learnt all about spin and inflation. The prime minister’s biography in Wikipedia, the internet encyclopaedia that its users write, claims that between the ages of 13 and 15 'he worked during school holidays as a bicycle repairer in the local hardware store'. A prankster’s work, sadly."
In 2005, four Tuskegee Airmen (Lt. Col. Lee Archer, Lt. Col. Robert Ashby, MSgt. James Sheppard, and TechSgt. George Watson) flew to Balad, Iraq, to speak to active duty airmen serving in the current incarnation of the 332nd, reactivated as first the 332d Air Expeditionary Group in 1998 and made part of the [[332d Air Expeditionary Wing]]. "This group represents the linkage between the 'greatest generation' of airmen and the 'latest generation' of airmen," said Lt. Gen. Walter E. Buchanan III, commander of the [[Ninth Air Force]] and US Central Command Air Forces, in an e-mail to the Associated Press.
* Hsueh, Hungfu. "Taiwan Encyclopedia opens site to users". ''Taiwan News''. January 19, 2005. <small>[http://www.etaiwannews.com/Arts_and_Culture/2005/01/19/1106100387.htm]</small>
*:"Chiang Shao-ting, Senior Adviser of the encyclopedia project, highlighted the fact that the Taiwan Encyclopedia will allowing users to edit or add new key words. 'Like the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia which is highly popular among users, the Taiwan Encyclopedia will also be a open platform that allows user to contribute to its content.'"
==Legacy and honors==
* [[Adam L. Penenberg|Penenberg, Adam L.]]. "Like it or not, Blogs Have legs". ''Wired News''. January 20, 2005. <small>[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66336,00.html?tw=wn_2culthead]</small>
[[Image:Tuskegee Airmen + US Congressional Gold Medals, 2007March29.jpg|thumb|President George W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to about 300 Tuskegee Airmen on 29 March 2007 at the US Capitol.]]
*:In the world of words, the closest analogy would be Wikipedia, the web citizen's encyclopedia that is compiled exclusively by volunteers. The problem is, since anyone can write anything about anybody or anything without any oversight, the quality is often uneven. For example, I plugged [[Adam Penenberg|myself]] (a subject I am somewhat familiar with) into its search engine and found a glaring error and a typo in the short, 95-word passage. Like consensus, Wikipedia is wonderful for getting people active in the process, but perhaps not as good for editorial accuracy. (Then again, have you seen The New York Times' correction box?)
On [[29 March]] [[2007]], about 350 Tuskegee Airmen and their widows were collectively awarded the [[Congressional Gold Medal]]<ref name=THOMAS>Library of Congress. [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:2:./temp/~c110J3sEbQ:: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Rotunda of the Capitol is authorized to be used on [[29 March]] [[2007]], for a ceremony to award a Congressional... (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by Senate)], [[7 March]] [[2007]]. </ref> at a ceremony in the [[United States Capitol rotunda|US Capitol rotunda]].<ref>Price, Deb. ''Nation to honor Tuskegee Airmen''. The Detroit News, [[29 March]] [[2007]]. [http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/NATION/703290308] Access date: [[29 March]] [[2007]].</ref><ref> ''Tuskegee Airmen Gold Medal Bill Signed Into Law''. Office of Congressman Charles B. Rangel. [http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny15_rangel/CBRStatementTuskegeeBillSigned04112006.html] Access date: [[26 October]] [[2006]].</ref><ref>
Evans, Ben. ''Tuskegee Airmen awarded Congressional Gold Medal''. Associated Press, [[30 March]] [[2007]].
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Access date: [[30 April]] [[2007]].</ref> The medal will go on display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]; individual honorees will receive bronze replicas.<ref>AP Story [[29 March]] [[2007]]</ref>
The airfield where the airmen trained is now the [[Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site]].<ref>Official NPS website: [http://www.nps.gov/tuai/ Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site]</ref>
* Taylor, Dave. "What's Acceptable Search Engine "Spam" Technique?". ''InformIT''. January 21, 2005. <small>[http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363737]</small>
*:"For example, Wikis are singled out as a bad technology, yet a Wiki is just a minimalist shared white board, a technology that lets a group of people share the maintenance of Web-based content. The most popular is probably Wikipedia, which is a fabulous resource, but even Net-savvy publisher O'Reilly has a Wiki that they use to manage the interaction between the company, their authors, and user groups.
*:"The argument of the article author, though, is that Wikis are dangerous because anyone can -- theoretically -- add content and therefore add bogus links back to a third-party site. Are Wikis therefore bad because people can "spam" them? Of course not.
*:"Just like comments on a weblog or entries in a guestbook, pages on a Wiki should be monitored to ensure that the information thereon is relevant."
In 2006, California Congressman [[Adam Schiff]], and Missouri Congressman [[William Lacy Clay, Jr.]], have led the initiative to create a commemorative postage stamp to honor the Tuskegee Airmen.<ref>[http://schiff.house.gov/HoR/CA29/Newsroom/Press+Releases/2006/Schiff+Votes+to+Honor+Tuskegee+Airmen.htmSchiff Votes to Honor Tuskegee Airmen]</ref>
* Unsigned article. "Written by whoever wants to". ''Revista VEJA''. January 23, 2005.
*: VEJA magazine, a brazilian weekly publication, published an article on Wikipedia stating its contents aren't reliable since anyone online can edit them. To prove their point, VEJA spread misinformation on wikipedia about brazilian president Lula, which is stated in their January 23 article. "Deliberate misinformation on Lula's article spread by VEJA stayed untouched for 48 hours"
== Film, media and other facts==
*Société de transport de Montréal. "Les meilleurs sites Internet: Le métro de Montréal sur le web." Info STM. ''Métro'' (Montreal), 26 January 2005, p. 21. <small>[http://www.stm.info/info/infostm/2005/050126.pdf] (.pdf format)</small>
* In 1945, the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps produced ''[[Wings for This Man]]'', a "propaganda" short about the unit narrated by [[Ronald Reagan]].
::"Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia on the Web, containing hundreds of thousands of articles in more than fifty languages. Unlike other encyclopedias, the text is written by the users themselves. In the case of the [[Montreal metro]], there can be no doubt about the quality of its information, as the page was written with the collaboration of none other than <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[user:Montréalais|Montréalais]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>!"
* In 1996, [[HBO]] produced and aired ''[[The Tuskegee Airmen]]'', starring [[Laurence Fishburne]].
::''note:'' This is an information page prepared by the STM, printed in the ''[[Metro International|Métro]]'' free newspaper as a condition of its distribution in metro stations. The article, on websites about the metro, had previously referred to [http://www.metrodemontreal.com/ my website on the metro]. -- [[User:Montrealais|Montréalais]] 19:21, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
* The Tuskegee Airmen are represented in the 1997 [[G.I. Joe]] action figure series.<ref>[http://www.mastercollector.com/neat/gijoe/hasbro/1997joes.html 1997 G.I. Joe Classic Collection]</ref>
* Television host [[Fred Rogers]]' foster brother was an instructor for the Tuskegee Airmen and taught Rogers how to fly.<ref>Garfield, Eugene. ''Mister Rogers on the Roots of Nurturing and the Untapped Role of Men in Professional Childcare''. Current Comments, [[25 September]] [[1989]]. [http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v12p270y1989.pdf#search=%22%22mr.%20rogers%22%20tuskegee%22]
Access date: [[24 September]] [[2006]].</ref>
* In the book ''Wild Blue'', by [[Stephen Ambrose]], the Tuskegee Airmen were mentioned, and honoured.
* The 2004 documentary film ''Silver Wings and Civil Rights: The Fight to Fly'', was the first film to feature the "Freeman Field Mutiny," the struggle of 101 African-American officers arrested for entering a white officer's club. [http://www.fight2fly.com/]
* May 17, 2005, [[George Lucas]] is planning a film about the Tuskegee Airmen called ''Red Tails''. Lucas says, "They were the only escort fighters during the war that never lost a bomber so they were, like, the best."<ref>[http://www.filmfocus.co.uk/newsdetail.asp?NewsID=335 Exclusive: Lucas looks to the future]</ref>
[[Image:Col Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.jpg|thumb|right|Col. [[Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.]], commander of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group, in front of his [[P-47 Thunderbolt]] in Sicily.]]
* Rubel, Steve. "Wikis Pose A Threat To Costly Media Directories." ''WebProNews''. January 27, 2005. <small>[http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050127WikisPoseaThreattoCostlyMediaDirectories.html]</small>
::"In the future, PR professionals - and even consumers - will create their own media directories. For a glimpse of this today, check out [[:Category:Journalists|this page]] on Wikipedia. They are starting to index journalists, including [[Jennifer 8. Lee]] of the New York Times. The paid services better evolve fast. Because in the near future as wikis become more popular and easier to set up, we may end up forming our own tool that enables us to share our knowledge. "
==References==
* Mossberg, Walter S. "Unlike Search Engines, Answers.Com Responds With Data, Not Links". ''Wall Street Journal''. January 27, 2005. <small>[http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html]</small>
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::"There are some downsides to Answers.com. It has answers for only about a million available topics so far. And it relies heavily on Wikipedia, which has been criticized because it isn't written or edited by experts. But unlike some recognized sources like the online Encyclopedia Britannica, Answers.com is free and instantly searches multiple reference works from multiple publishers."
==Sources==
* "Wikipedia Battle over Controversial Web Site Entry Ended". ''ChatMag''. January 29, 2005. <small>[http://www.chatmag.com/news/012905_wiki_battle.html]</small>
* Bucholtz, Chris and Laurier, Jim. ''332nd Fighter Group - Tuskegee Airmen''. London: Osprey Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-84603-044-7.
::Details a controversy at [[Perverted-Justice.com]].
* Cotter, Jarrod. "Red Tail Project." ''Flypast, No, 248, March 2002''.
* Francis, Charles F. ''The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men who Changed a Nation''. Boston: Branden Publishing Company, 1988. ISBN 0-8283-1908-1.
* Hill, Ezra M. Sr. ''The Black Red Tail Angels: A Story of the Tuskegee Airmen''. Columbus, Ohio: SMF Haven of Hope. 2006.
* Leuthner, Stuart and Jensen, Olivier. ''High Honor: Recollections by Men and Women of World War II Aviation''. Washington, DC: [[Smithsonian Institution Press]], 1989. ISBN 0-87474-650-7.
* McKissack, Patricia C. and Fredrick L. ''Red Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II''. New York: Walker Books for Young Readers, 1996. ISBN 0-80278-292-2.
* Ross, Robert A. ''Lonely Eagles: The Story of America's Black Air Force in World War II''. Los Angeles: Tuskegee Airmen Inc., Los Angeles Chapter, 1980. ISBN 0-917612-00-0.
* Sandler, Stanley. ''Segregated Skies: All-Black Combat Squadrons of WWII.'' Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. ISBN 1-56098-154-7.
* Thole, Lou. "Segregated Skies." ''Flypast, No, 248, March 2002''.
==External links==
*Cone, Edward. "Making inside of newsroom as big as outside". ''Greensboro News & Record''. January 30, 2005. <small>[http://www.news-record.com/news/columnists/staff/h3cone_013005.htm]</small>
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::"Then there was Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia, a collaborative online encyclopedia written and edited on the Web by thousands of people around the world (wikis are software that allow groups to work together online). The free encyclopedia is trustworthy, huge, multilingual and growing, and is produced for only a fraction of what gets spent by traditional competitors."
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802782922 "Red-Tail Angels": The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/international/tuskegee_010814.html Tuskegee reunion: A whopping tale of coincidence]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/ The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)]
* [http://www.shoppbs.org/sm-pbs-the-tuskegee-airmen--pi-1402874.html The Tuskegee Airmen] [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] [[Documentary film]]hello
* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/tuskegee_airmen.html Reference Room: African American World, Articles, Tuskegee Airmen PBS [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]]
*Hunt, Kurt. "Four hours to a smarter you". ''Eastern Echo'' (Eastern Michigan University). January 31, 2005. <small>[http://www.easternecho.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?4496]</small>
* [http://www.aeromuseum.org/Exhibits/travel.html 99th Pursuit Squadron at Chanute Field]
::"Truly informed people know more than what CNN feeds them—they take the time to look into the background of topics, to learn about how things come about, and how they interrelate. Which is why you are now heading to wikipedia.org, an Internet-compiled, completely free, community-written encyclopedia."
* [http://www.blackaviation.com/blackhistory.html Articles about the Tuskegee Airmen] from the [[Chicago Defender]] newspaper, 1944, at Black Aviation Enterprises
* [http://tuskegeeairmen.org/ Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. - Official Web Site]
*Hall, Mark. "Open-Source Gnaws Its Way Into..." ''Computerworld''. January 31, 2005. <small>[http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,99349,00.html]</small>
* [http://www.redtail.org/ The Red Tail Project]
::"In addition, Clusty includes thumbnail images from www.wikipedia.com with selected results, which breaks up pages and makes them easier to read."
* [http://www.army.mil/africanamericans/ African Americans in the U.S. Army]
* [http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=070329&cat=news&st=newsd8o61bb00&src=ap AP Story March 28, 2007]
==February==
* [http://www.aaregistry.com/ National Museum of the United States Air Force: Eugene Jacques Bullard]
* [http://www.bahai.us/node/195 Honored Tuskegee Airmen include two Baha’is] Airmen Dempsey W. Morgan, far left in the header picture, and Myron Wilson are members of the [[Bahá'í faith]].
*McHugh, Josh. "The Firefox Explosion." ''Wired Magazine''. February 2005, p.97. <small>[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/firefox.html]</small>
::"Firefox's assault on Internet Explorer isn't the only attack Bill Gates is facing. A ragtag coalition of open source projects is steadily chipping away at the Microsoft empire. Here's a look at market share on eight different fronts. …<br />"Web encylopedias – Encarta Premium: 68,000 entries; Wikipedia: 431,195 entries" – Illustration, "Storming Redmond" <small>[http://www.wired.com/wired/images.html?issue=13.02&topic=firefox&img=3]</small>
*Waters, Richard. "In search of more: the "friendly" engines that will manage the data of daily life". ''Financial Times''. February 1, 2005.
::"Already, internet blogs and communal internet pages known as wikis (from the Hawaiian word for "speedy") are pushing the boundaries of what was known as "user-generated content". Results from Wikipedia, a free encyclopaedia maintained over the internet by volunteers, may not match the standards of publications produced by professional editors, but the service still manages to answer many common questions."
*Mahmud, Vishnu K. "Share global information with Wiki encyclopedia". ''The Jakarta Post''. February 1, 2005.
*:Do you know the history of the airship? Or how to make a magnet?
*:In the "old days" (circa 1998), you would have had to open up a book or an encyclopedia to find the answers. Nowadays, however, you can simply "google" or web-search the answer with your computer and the Internet.
*:The World Wide Web is a massive network of virtual pages and hyperlinks, making it an ideal source of information. But its decentralized nature can also make it extremely difficult to find or upload data towards the advancement of knowledge. Is there a centralized website online where wisdom can be stored and shared?
*:Enter Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). Created by the WikiMedia Foundation (www.wikimediafoundation.org), this free online encyclopedia allows everyone to access, edit and share informational content in a variety of languages.
*McHenry, Robert. "On Getting It: The Faith-Based Encyclopedia and Me". ''Tech Central Station''. February 1, 2005. <small>[http://www.techcentralstation.com/020105C.html]</small>
::Follow-up to the author's previous article from November 2004, "[http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html The Faith-Based Encyclopedia]".
*ElAmin, Ahmed. "Tech Tattle: A 'wiki' way of learning all about Bermuda". ''The Royal Gazette''. February 2, 2005. <small>[http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050202/BUSINESS/102020054]</small>
::"One of course should never rely completely on online information and should always check other reference sources for accuracy. However, Wikipedia seems to actually work most of the time because of the amount of users on the lookout for errors."
*Dibbel, Julian. "Choose Your Own Encyclopedia". ''The Village Voice''. February 3, 2005. <small>[http://www.villagevoice.com/screens/0506,dibbell,60773,28.html]</small>
::"Go to any Wikipedia entry you choose—"Hindu philosophy," "drunk driving," "pataphysics"—and click on the Edit This Page tab. Bingo: Whatever you write immediately becomes the last word on the subject. And if this sounds like a recipe for mob rule, that's because it is. But mob rule turns out to be a surprisingly good way to write an encyclopedia."
*Cherkoff, James. "What Is Open Source Marketing?" ''WebProNews''. February 4, 2005. <small>[http://www.webpronews.com/enterprise/marketing/wpn-16-20050204WhatIsOpenSourceMarketing.html]</small>
::"Wikipedia is an Open Source encyclopaedia (recently recognised by the Press Association) containing 1.3 million articles in eight different languages, all written, developed and maintained by regular people around the world."
*Green, Graeme. "Net Result - The best sites for... online encyclopaedias" ''London Metro''. February 9, 2005.
::"[Wikipedia logo; www.wikipedia.org; 5-star rating] Not the most visually striking site but very easy to navigate and you'll struggle to find a subject it can't provide information on. Highlighted keywords guide your search to more detailed information, related subjects or interesting tangents. Subjects can be edited and added to by users, which means the site continues to grow and cover increasingly diverse topics." [Review was on page 31 in the MetroLife feature. The 5-star rating was the best rating (5/5) of the three encyclopaedias reviewed. The others were www.probert-encyclopaedia.co.uk (3/5) and www.iep.utm.edu (4/5). This was typed out from the London Metro edition, though other editions of Metro are published in other UK cities.]
*Menta, Richard (February 9, 2005). "WikiPod, The iPod Encyclopedia". ''MP3Newswire.net'' <small>[http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/wikipod.html]</small>
*:Mainly refers to a new site, [http://www.wikipod.org/index.php/Main_Page WikiPod], however refers to Wikipedia:
*::"I came across this little posting today on PDATrends. A group is looking to start their own encyclopedia specifically for the iPod and they are soliciting articles for it. The site, which they call WikiPod, uses the same look and graphics of Wikipedia. I don't know if there is any direct relation to Wikipedia, which already has its own articles on the iPod and everything related."
*Weiss, Aaron (February 10, 2005). "The Unassociated Press" ''New York Times'', ''Circuits Section'', p.E5.
*:"[[Wikinews]] is ... the latest... in a collection of Wikis under the umbrella of Wikimedia ... The largest Wiki project, Wikipedia, has been online for four years and contains more than 450,000 articles, all written and open to revision by its more than 150,000 users. ... Central to Wikinews is its commitment to neutrality, said Jimmy Wales ... president of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. ...
*:"Above all, the central question about the Wikinews effort is its credibility. "Making a newspaper is hard," said Robert McHenry, former editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Someone who wants to do it but doesn't really know how hasn't solved the problem by gathering a lot of other people who don't know, either.
*:"Mr. McHenry was skeptical about Wikinews's ability to provide a neutral point of view and its claim to be evenhanded. "The naïveté is stunning," he said."
* Regan, Jim (February 11, 2005). "Wacky Wikipedia". ''The Christian Science Monitor'' <small>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0211/p25s01-stin.html]</small>
*:"HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – If I may take moment to state the patently obvious, there is a great deal of 'unusual' content on the web. From UFOs and Crop Circles to Dancing Hamsters and Headless Chickens, you can find it all online - but for the most part, each site only deals with a single unusual topic, and the sites themselves are spread far and wide. So where can the connoisseur of concentrated eccentricity go for a wide and varied selection of the peculiar in one convenient ___location? Well, that would be Wikipedia - where a collection of [[Wikipedia:Unusual articles|Unusual Articles]] can take you from [[Bat bomb]]s to the [[Year 10,000 problem]] on a single page."
* "A Problem Shared Is a Problem Solved" (no date). ''Fast Company''. <small>[http://www.fastcompany.com/resources/innovation/watson/011005.html]</small>
*:"Recently the idea has been transferred to all manner of projects ranging from an open source encyclopedia called the Wikipedia and collaborative industrial design such as [[ThinkCycle]] to open source aeroplane design, cola recipes, film scripts, and beer."
* Shliferstein, Jim (February 10, 2005). "Freedom of Excretion". ''The Cornell Daily Sun Online''. <small>[http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/10/420ace15114ff]</small>
*:Basically, this guy wrote a piece on Wikipedia about he vandalised to be amusing. He refers to it again in his column ''Arrr!'':
*:"The ferocity of these W.C. warriors, and the furious indigestive indignation with which they defend their ideas, is absolutely astounding. I've never seen such vitriol in such a trivial context -- except, perhaps, on the Internet, where similarly forgettable forums are littered with self-righteous diatribes and counter-diatribes, each thread taken mortally seriously by all of four people. (If you doubt it, consider that my column poking fun at Wikipedia geeks earned several angry, ten-page rebuttals from Wikipedia faithful -- or, as they are technically known, "Wikipedophiles.")"
* "Google lends Wikipedia a hand".''p2pnet.net''. <small>[http://p2pnet.net/story/3867]</small>
*:"...Microsoft ... loosed its own search engine ... Both Google and Yahoo are streets ahead of MSN launch in terms of both popularity and goodwill. ... Google has offered its support to assist Wikipedia by providing much needed storage and hosting services, says TechWhack, going on, “The deal is still in very early stages. Wikipedia has made it public that Google has not asked for any favors in returns, which includes any ad placement on Wikipedia pages. ... Google with the power and content of Wikipedia might make a lethal combination to empower the extent; knowledge is available to the end user on the Internet. But then considering Wikipedia already is open source, Google would not have needed any tech support from the developers of this online encyclopedia!”"
* "Google Plans to add Encyclopedia Results to Searches; Wikipedia" (February 11, 2005). ''The Cranky Consumer''. <small>[http://www.crankyconsumer.org/archives/000180google_plans_to_add_encyclopedia_results_to_searches_wikipedia.html]</small>
*:"Google.com, not missing a beat, looks like it is making plans to start using the Wiki Media online Encyclopedia project in its search results. Google has agreed to host some of the Company's wesite using Google Servers."
* "Google may host encyclopedia project" (February 11, 2005). ''Cnet News.com'' <small>[http://news.com.com/Google%20may%20host%20encyclopedia%20project/2100-1038_3-5572744.html?tag=html.alert]</small>
*:"Wiki Media Foundation, the group behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia project, said Friday that search giant Google has volunteered to host some of its content on company servers."
* "Google Offers to Host Wikipedia" (February 11, 2005). ''BetaNews'' <small>[http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Offers_to_Host_Wikipedia/1108144572]</small>
*:"From Internet domains to Web browsers, Google seems to have its hands all over the Web these days. But the search giant shows no signs of slowing its reach, and has offered to host the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Wiki Media Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, says [[m:Google hosting|Google has volunteered]] to supply servers and bandwidth to the project."
* Krevs, Paul (February 11, 2005). "Google Offers Assistance To Wikipedia". ''Neowin.net''. <small>[http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=27044&category=main]</small>
*:"Google has offered to assist online encyclopedia Wikipedia, by providing some much needed storage and hosting services to the giant non-profit site. Although terms of the upcoming arrangement have yet to be finalized, Wikimedia commented that any deal will still see Wikipedia remaining ad-free; meaning that the arrangement will not impose Google "AdSense" technology on the popular site."
* "GooglePedia? Google Wants to Help the Wikipedia". ''Search Engine Watch''. <small>[http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050210-220108]</small>
*:"A post at Dirson kicked off a Slashdot discussion about Google offering to host "some" Wikimedia content. What this precisely means is not spelled out. A post on the Wikimedia wiki says that "terms" of the offer are being discussed and that a private IRC meeting is scheduled for March. It also mentions that Google's offer "does not mean" there will be a requirement to include advertising on Wikimedia sites. Stay tuned."
* "Google & Wikimedia Sitting in a Tree..." (February 11, 2005). ''SearchViews''. <small>[http://searchviews.com/blog/searchviews/archive/2005/02/11/482.aspx]</small>
*:"Wikipedia is going to be getting a much-needed shot in the arm, thanks to a donation of bandwidth and servers from Google. The Wikimedia Foundation (the international non-profit that handles the development of the Wiki encyclopedia and other projects) is expected to announce an agreement with Google sometime soon. Until then they're mostly mum, but you can check out a short statement from Wikipedia here."
* "Google Offers To Host Wikipedia" (February 11, 2005). ''TechNewsWorld''. <small>[http://www.technewsworld.com/story/news/40554.html]</small>
*:"Google searches already access Wikipedia and other Wikimedia resources through the services that host the organization's content, but some have speculated that Google wants the encyclopedia content to compete with MSN Search's Encarta content and Yahoo, which accesses the Columbia Encyclopedia."
* "Wikinews Holds Online Conference with Bloggers" (February 11, 2005). ''Chatmag''. <small>[http://www.chatmag.com/news/020605_wikinews_bloggers.html]</small>
*:Wikinews, a sub project of the Wikimedia Foundation, held an online conference with several prominent 'bloggers on Saturday, Feb. 5th. The purpose of the conference was to introduce bloggers to the concept of Wikinews, and to explore avenues to integrate blogging into the Wikinews sections.
* Shields, Tom, "Sports Diary: Fleeting effect is right on the balls", (Glasgow) ''Sunday Herald'' 13 February 2005. <small>[http://www.sundayherald.com/47762]</small>
*:''In an article on the bigotry between supporters of [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] and [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] football clubs, he spotted the edit war on 11 February afternoon which resulted in both articles being protected.''
*:"A small indication of how deep-seated is the conflict between the orange and the green could be seen this week on an obscure and verging on the academic encyclopedia website called Wikipedia. It is an anorak-inhabited environment where earnest folk are invited to contribute their knowledge of history, culture, life and everything. The opportunity for browsers to call up and edit entries on the Wikipedia proved too tempting for warriors on the [[Old Firm]] cyber battlefield."
*:"The entry for Rangers FC was adjusted to include the information that the club was founded by [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Pol Pot]] and that one of their all-time great players was one [[Alvin Stardust]]. There was retaliation when Wikipedia readers were informed that Celtic “was founded by Brother Walfrid as a way to raise money for terribly thick Irish bogtrotters, mainly in the East of Glasgow. However, for her supporters, Celtic is much more than a football club, it is a great way to meet young boys and abuse them."
*:"The Wikipedia people were bewildered by the fact that the Celtic and Rangers entries were being edited almost by the minute to include a vast array of insult and accusation. They called an end to these “edit wars” and peace has broken out. It is unlikely that Cathy Jamieson will have equal success at her summit this week."
* Hines, Matt (February 14, 2005). "Google may host encyclopedia project". ''ZDNet'' (taken from ''CNet news.com''). <small>[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39187928,00.htm]</small>
*:"Wikipedia.org could soon be hosted on Google's servers, as the search giant looks for ways of supporting the Wikimedia Foundation."
* "Dvorak on Google and Wikipedia" (February 15, 2005). ''[[Slashdot]]''. <small>[http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/15/1432205.shtml?tid=217&tid=95&tid=98]</small>
*:"cryptoluddite writes 'PC Magazine has an article by John C. Dvorak expanding on the community discussion of Google's offer for free web hosting of Wikipedia. Those against the deal point out that Google may be planning to co-opt the encyclopedia as Googlepedia (by restricting access to the complete database). In a revealing speech given by the Google founders, Larry Page says he would 'like to see a model where you can buy into the world's content. Let's say you pay $20 per month.' Should public ___domain information be free?' It's a pretty scary scenario painted, but one can hardly take a speech from 2001 as serious evidence these days." (note that it links the ''second'' page of the article).
* [[John C. Dvorak|Dvorak, John C.]] (February 14, 2005). "Googlepedia: The End is Near". ''ZDNet''. <small>[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1764747,00.asp]</small> <small>[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1764757,00.asp]</small>
*:"Google has been using Wikipedia to deliver appropriate results in a non-natural-language fashion, but would love to get hold of the entire database in-house so it would not have to continually spider the thing with its legions of Web crawlers. So the debate now begins. Should the Wikipedia folks get cozy with Google, a public company? The big fear seems to be the notion of letting the camel's head into the tent. Pretty soon the whole camel will be inside.
*:...
*:"Unfortunately, when you consistently look to be too generous, people get suspicious. You have to remember that this offer comes on the heels of the offer made to libraries by Google to digitize and host all the great books and documents in the world. Now this. Is Google trying to corner the all the world's information and then, once they have it all under their control, sell it back to us at a high fee?
*:"Or, more interestingly, is it possible that the plan is to control all these resources and then stick it to Microsoft when its search-engine Web crawler comes around? ACCESS DENIED! There is no doubt in my mind that this is a distinct possibility. But can it be accomplished without making a mess?
*:...
*:"But let's say that Google is as honorable as it claims and has no intention of doing anything more than making life better for everyone. I know most of the principals there, and they are as normal and sincere as can be expected. Nice guys, actually. But Google itself is a public corporation. It's its own animal in that regard, with attorneys and bean-counters making the "nice guys" who run the place beholden to the mythical shareholders, who demand results and accountability. Maybe the nice guys do not want to create a situation that locks out the Microsoft crawlers. The needs of the corporate entity, though, demand it. Maybe the nice guys don't want to take over Wikipedia and clean it up, change the way it works—ruin it—as per the lawyers' demands. The corporation demands it. Those nice guys are not working for themselves any more. We always have to remember that. They are now guests."
* Farrel, Nick (15 February 2005). "Wikipedia might move to Google". ''the Inquirer''. <small>[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21261]</small>
* Gline, Matthew A. (15 February 2005). "Citing Riots". ''The Harvard Crimson''. <small>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=505715]</small>
*:"The site is an astounding monument to human knowledge. To spend a few moments browsing its enormous tangle of links is to feel an awesome sense of the breadth and depth of what mankind has accomplished, and is also an opportunity to marvel at incredible human altruism: Apparently, millions of knowledgeable internet-goers have spent hours of their time painstakingly updating articles about poisonous toads and obscure biochemical reactions."
*:...
*:"Wikipedia also contains lies. I know, because I'm responsible for one of them: As of this writing, the year in which Yale University was founded according to the encyclopedia is not 1701 as it rightfully should be but 1702; I've committed my own personal one-year slight against the prestige of our younger sibling in New Haven."
*::''The vandalism edit mentioned in the article is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yale_University&diff=9954879&oldid=9954872]; it was reverted by the same user [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yale_University&diff=9956672&oldid=9954879].''
*Bujold, Shelley. "Kenora Knowledge Could Be Shared." Daily Miner and News ([[Kenora, Ontario]]), February 15, 2005.
::"Wikipedia.org, a website dedicated to all things knowledge, doesn't have very much on the City of Kenora." (Talks about Wikipedia and suggests expanding the Kenora article)
* Damiani, Jean-Philippe (16 February 2005). "Wikipedia : l'encyclopédie dont vous êtes l'auteur". ''Métro''(Montreal).
*:"Any web surfer can volunteer to collaborate on Wikipedia from their computer. The articles are works in progress that can be modified and improved by anyone. There are rules, though: the content must be accurate and respect 'neutrality' on controversial subjects. Other participants can always correct errors, and a backup system allows users to return to previous versions if necessary. Still, the reader must be able to tell the wheat from the chaff in this bazaar of knowledge." <small>[http://copex.metro.st/ftp/20050216_1000020.pdf] (enormous .pdf file, page 16)</small>
*: Note: the article describes a report on Wikipedia on the Quebec TV show ''La revanche des nerdz,'' to be aired 17 Feb at 7:00 on Canal Z.
* [[Laura Sydell|Sydell, Laura]] (20 February 2005). "Wikipedia's Growth Comes with Concerns". [[National Public Radio]]'s ''[[Weekend Edition]]''. <small>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4506421]</small>
*:"...as Wikipedia has grown dramatically in popularity, some have begun to question its accuracy.
* "IRC and Internet Chat News and Information" (21 February, 2005). ''Chatmag News''. <small>[http://www.chatmag.com/news/022105_wikipedia.html]</small>
*:"Wikipedia, the popular user edited online encyclopedia, has been shut down by a power outage at their colocation facility. Wikipedia has been in the news recently, the latest regarding Wikipedia and Google.com Google has offered to host the site, and a meeting is planned for March between the Wikipedia Foundation and Google."
* "Power Outage Knocks Wikipedia Offline" (February 22, 2005). ''[[Netcraft]]''. <small>[http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/02/22/power_outage_knocks_wikipedia_offline.html]</small>
*:"The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been knocked offline by a power outage in its data center. While the servers hosting the site were down only a short time, much of the site's content remained offline as Wikimedia staff worked on properly restoring data from MySQL databases."
* Lemon, Summer (February 22, 2005). "Power outage pulls plug on Wikipedia". ''The Industry Standard''. <small>[http://www.thestandard.com/internetnews/000998.php]</small>
*:"A power outage inside the facility that hosts Wikipedia's servers has forced the free, community-authored encyclopedia offline, according to a message posted on the Wikipedia Web site."
* Heaton, Terry L. "The Devaluation of Information". ''OhmyNews International''. February 22, 2005. <small>[http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=212277&rel_no=1]</small>
*:"The Britannica has weathered many storms in the last 15 years, as technology has rewritten their business. Even now, the online "Wikipedia" -- which is written and edited by the public -- poses a new threat, but the company has faith in its model."
* "FUSION : Web sites of the week". ''The South End'' ([[Wayne State University]]). February 23, 2005. <small>[http://www.southend.wayne.edu/modules/news/article.php?storyid=996]</small>
*:"wikipedia.org — The free online encylopedia that anyone can edit. This vast resources of rants and scientific data might surprise you by its collective effort. There is a serious debate in the academic community now as whether or not to consider this amalgam of information as a legitimate resource. Look here for contemporary information that the corporate encyclopedias won’t touch."
*Quon, Wynn. "The New Know-it-all." ''National Post'', February 26, 2005. <small>[http://www.legadoassociates.com/wikipedi.htm]</small>
*:"It's as if a gang of hardy Amish barn-raisers ended up erecting the tallest skyscraper in the world...but Wikipedia is more than just the raising of a new barn, it's the tearing down of the old ones". [How the traditional encyclopedias face big trouble from Wikipedia: the "leaching factor"]
* Behr, Rafael. "Every blog has its day." ''[[National Observer]]'', February 27, 2005. <small>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1426405,00.html]</small>
*:"The best example yet of the capacity of the internet to coalesce into self-regulating networks is Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by whoever wants to go and edit it. It is not as authoritative as Britannica, and it gives disproportionate weight to transient phenomena. But it does give a reliable steer on most subjects. It is not anarchic, there is a hierarchy of more trusted writers who have earned their privileges over time. Editorial access to controversial entries - 'George Bush', 'Palestine', for example - is restricted to see off vandals. A South Korean online newspaper Ohmynews is compiled along similar principles. At this point journalists and compilers of encyclopedias roll their eyes. Their reaction is justified in so far as professionals hate to see a job done badly. But fear of competition plays a part."
* Clay (username), (February 28, 2005). "First Two Laws of [[Commons-Based Peer Production]]". ''Many2Many'' <small>[http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/02/28/whos_afraid_of_wikipedia.php]</small>
*:"And I assume I am hardly alone in the academy. Hundreds, if not thousands of us must be getting papers this year with Wikipedia URLs in the footnotes, and despite the moral panic, the Wikipedia is a fine resource on a large number of subjects, and can and should be cited in those cases. There are articles, as danah has pointed out, where it would be far better to go to the primary sources, but that would be as true were a student to cite any encyclopedia. If someone cited the Wikipedia to discuss <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Walter Benjamin]]’s] work, I’d send them back to the trenches, but I would also do that if they cited Encyclopedia Britannica.
*:"To borrow some Hemingway, this is how the academy will get used to Wikipedia — slowly, then all at once."
** Chin, Brian. "Wikipedia in the footnotes". March 01, 2005. <small>[http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/004405.html]</small>
** Danah (username), (January 8, 2005 - the dates are getting wierd...). "On a Vetted Wikipedia, Reflexivity and Investment in Quality (a.k.a. more responses to Clay)". <small>[http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/08/on_a_vetted_wikipedia_reflexivity_and_investment_in_quality_aka_more_responses_to_clay.php]</small>
**:"In response to Clay, i definitely do not believe that Wikipedia should be ignored and i definitely do not believe that Britannica is better - just different. When i said that Wikipedia will never be an encyclopedia, i am definitely referencing the current definition (although being flexible on the fact the definition does state book form). Whether the definition will expand, who knows but i don’t think it matters. Both encyclopedias and Wikipedia are knowledge resources and they will always be different. If legitimacy requires a definitional change, i’m worried. Why does it have to be an encyclopedia? Why can’t it simply be Wikipedia?
In this (long) entry, i want to make 3 points:
**:"1) A vetted Wikipedia can have complementary value;
**:"2) Reflexivity would be of great value for entries that interpret (not necessarily for entries that are about empirical facts);
**:"3) Authority has to do with knowledge, investment and risk."
==March==
*Krowne, Aaron. "The FUD based encyclopedia: Dismantling the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt aimed at Wikipedia and other free knowledge sources." ''Free Software''. March 1, 2005. <small>[http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/]</small>
*:"In this article, I respond to [[Robert McHenry]]'s anti-Wikipedia piece entitled 'The Faith-Based Encyclopedia.' I argue that McHenry's points are contradictory and incoherent and that his rhetoric is selective, dishonest and misleading. I also consider McHenry&'s points in the context of all Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP), showing how they are part of a Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) campaign against CBPP. Further, I introduce some principles, which will help to explain why and how CBPP projects can succeed, and I discuss alternative ways they may be organized, which will address certain concerns."
*"First Two Laws of Commons-Based Peer Production." ''Many 2 Many''. February 27, 2005. <small>[http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/02/27/first_two_laws_of_commonsbased_peer_production.php]</small> (note that time zone differences account for hat seems to be the posting of the response to the orginal article before the article itself)
*Marson, Ingrid. "Wikipedia needs help to keep growing." ''[[ZDNet]]''. March 1, 2005. <small>[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39189592,00.htm]</small>
*:"The team running Wikipedia has urged the open source development community to lend their support to help the encyclopaedia project grow and to combat Web bots that are damaging its content.
*:"In the opening talk at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels on Saturday, Wikipedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales urged the assembled audience of open source developers to get involved with the online encyclopaedia. He said Wikipedia has the physical resources to handle the extra traffic, but needs technical people to manage these servers."
*Pink, Daniel. "The Book Stops Here." ''[[Wired]]''. March 2, 2005. Pink, Daniel. "The Book Stops Here". Pages: Cover - "Wikipedia: the self-organizing library of the future", 007, 124-129, 136, 139. <small>[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html?tw=wn_tophead_4]</small>
*:This in-depth commentary is Wired magazine's [[/An encyclopedia that is alive|first print article on Wikipedia]]. Pink attended the [[Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC1|December meetup in New York]] as part of his research.
*Del Arte, Alonso. "Fusion: Although current, Wikipepedia ''[sic]'' not always reliable source of information." ''The South End Newspaper''. March 2, 2005. <small>[http://www.southend.wayne.edu/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1053]</small>
*:Surveys the views of Wikipedia by various professors who lecture at [[Wayne State University]]. The same issues as normal are raised: Some think it's OK to use for undergraduates, definitely not for postgraduate work, lack of proper academic peer review mechanisms issues of unbalanced and patchy content, questions the priorities of Wikipedia authors. Quotes from article:
*::"[History Professor Eric Ash] made up an example of a Web site on [[Charles Darwin]] written by Joe Smith.
*::"'I don't know who Joe Smith is. Joe Smith could be a fundamentalist who sees Charles Darwin as the Antichrist,' Ash speculated. Such points of view do occasionally get into Wikipedia. The history of the article on Charles Darwin shows a serious effort by several Wikipedia users to keep the article neutral in point of view."
*::"Ash recalled that one time, before giving a lecture on a novel by 19th century author [[Samuel Smiles]], he turned to Wikipedia to see if he could find some supplemental information.
*::"Ash said, 'Wikipedia had one screen of information. I learned he had written other books' besides the one he was lecturing about."
*"Dictionary of National Biography: $15,000, buggy -- better than Wikipedia?". March 6, 2005. ''BoingBoing''. <small>[http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/06/dictionary_of_nation.html]</small>
*:The latest salvo in the Wikipedia-versus-the-world wars: the new edition of the Oxford University Press Dictionary of National Biography—ringing in at nearly $15,000—is riddled with factual errors. If these errors had appeared in Wikipedia entries, its likely that they would have been fixed in short order -- and once they were discovered by the outraged experts quoted in this ''Observer'' article, they certainly would be fixed. ¿Quien es mas macho?
* Terdiman, Daniel. "Wiki Becomes a Way of Life". March 8, 2005. ''Wired News''. <small>[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66814,00.html/wn_ascii Article link]</small>
*:Wired Online has done a feature story about the most active Wikipedia users, based on [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|old data]]. It profiles [[User:Charles Matthews|Charles Matthews]], [[User:UtherSRG|Stacey Greenstein]], [[User:Ram-Man|Derek Ramsey]] and his [[User:Rambot|Rambot]], [[User:Maveric149|Daniel Mayer]], [[User:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]] and [[User:Seth Ilys|Seth Ilys]].
*::Slashdot covered this in [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/1419245&tid=95].
* Minow, Nell. "Help children learn critical thinking skills". March 9, 2005. ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' <small>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/reviews/chi-0503090019mar09,1,823223.story?coll=chi-technologyreviews-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true]</small>.
*:"One reason Google is so popular is it uses a formula for ranking search results that is likely -- though not guaranteed -- to put the most reliable ones at the top. Google also gets points for putting its "sponsored links" -- sites that pay to be listed -- off to the side and labeling them clearly so that users can tell they are ads.
*:"But not all search engines play by those rules, and children need to know that. They also need to understand that no search engine guarantees the information it points to is factual or even unbiased.
*:"The same applies to some popular online reference sites like the Internet movie database at imdb.com, and http://en.wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia. The entries in both are written and assembled by amateurs and volunteers -- which doesn't mean the entries are wrong, but it doesn't mean they are right, either.
*:" A good point of discussion with teens as well as younger children who use the Internet for research is how a Web site establishes credibility. One place to start: Look on a site's main page for a link labeled something like, 'about us.'
*:"On Wikipedia, the link '[[Wikipedia:About|About Wikipedia]]' is at the bottom of the home page. It takes readers to a detailed, annotated page that explains the Wikipedia project, among other things."
* Kinzie, Susan. "Wiping Out the Blackboard". March 11, 2005; Page B01. ''[[The Washington Post]]''. <small>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html]</small>
*:"Early e-mail lists, newsgroups and chat rooms were ephemeral, like a passing conversation, said Steve Jones, a communication professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Now computers and networks are fast enough that many people can share text, videos, sound and art and work on them together, he said, building a body of knowledge over time. Wikis, including interactive encyclopedia Wikipedia, have been around for several years but they're just on the cusp of becoming mainstream; as the technology improves, they're popping up in a few classrooms and offices, and people are finding all sorts of uses for them."
* "Remixing the Fourth Estate". March 13, 200. ''AlterNet''. <small>[http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/03/003186.html]</small>
*:"<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Dan Gillmor]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> praised technological developments like the Wikipedia -- an online encyclopedia that anyone can change and update. Contrary to early criticism that the Wiki encourages biased speech or off-topic rants, it is actually a self-correcting phenomenon. For every opinion presented, there is a reader with the opposite opinion with the power to change the statement. What results, Gillmor argues, is the least-biased conversation, for the end result must be a mutually agreed-upon truth. Gillmor lauded our move toward a "remix culture," and summed up his point thusly: "eventually, grass roots media will be the norm."
* Procter, Darryl. "Web gems". March 14, 2005. ''Rocky Mountain News''. <small>[http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/technology/article/0,1299,DRMN_49_3619092,00.html]</small>
*:Listed under "Research".
* Johnson, Steve. "'Old' media, bloggers square off at conference". March 14, 2005. ''Chicago Tribune'' <small>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/reviews/chi-0503140014mar14,1,4104611.column?coll=chi-technologyreviews-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true]</small>
*:" Among the more concrete suggestions participants offered traditional journalistic enterprises: make their news archives freely available, which would help their work show up on search engines and get linked to by other sites, instead of only offering them free for a couple of weeks, as is common practice; and consider making their Web sites more interactive, allowing for some form of reader comment and elaboration on the news stories, similar to the model established by Wikipedia, the free, online, openly edited encyclopedia."
* Horton, Jane. "Keeping positive in the face of climate change". March 14, 2005. ''digital divide network'' <small>[http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=368]</small>.
*:"Since this software doesn’t permit us to collaboratively add to articles (unlike in wikipedia) I suggest that you add what helps you (if you feel so moved) as comments to this article so we can build up a communal resource together to help us from being overwhelmed."
* Benfield, Chris. "Phoenix like comeback for crooner Tony". March 15, 2005. ''Yorkshire Post''. <small>[http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=971247]</small>
*:"[[Tony Christie|Christie]] only drops into Conisbrough nowadays to see his family. But he gets a mention as the town's most famous son in the on-line encylopaedia Wikipedia.
* Richardson, Will. "Understanding Wikipedia". March 15, 2005. ''Ed-Tech Insider''. <small>[http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2005/03/000727.php]</small>
*:If you're still trying to "get" what Wikipedia is all about, you might want to check out this [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html extremely well done deconstruction] of a [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Wikipedia entry]] done by Jon Udell.
* Frykholm, Daniel. "Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet, Pioneer Says". March 17, 2005. ''Reuters''. <small>[http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=7932814]</small>
*:Berners-Lee's original vision of the Web was as a resource for collaboration. He said that so far it had been "a big disappointment" in this respect, although exceptions such as "wikis" -- essentially interactive online note pads -- showed its potential. "Wikis in general are great examples of how people want to be creative and not just suck in information," he told the seminar, pointing to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as the most advanced development in this area.
* "Wikipedia nears half million article mark". March 17, 2005. ''The Inquirer'' <small>[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21909]</small>
*: "ONLINE ENCYCLOPAEDIA the Wiki is close to reaching half a million English articles online. The Wiki relies on volunteers and interested parties to add, edit and update articles, and has become a very useful resource since it was launched. According to its English page, here, there are currently 499,690 English articles on the resource. And it also has a news section which people can edit and add to as well. Lots of people would like to edit INQ articles for lots of different reasons. But you can't. OK?"
* "Reference revolution" . March 18, 2005. ''News@nature.com'' <small>[http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050314/full/050314-17.html]</small>
*:Roxanne Khamsi interviews Wikipedia Jimmy Wales.
*:"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales offers a whole new species of information online." Relationship of Wikispecies to Wikipedia discussed.
* "Move over, Google". March 20, 2005. pg. 14 ''Sunday Life'' (inset of the Australian ''Sunday Telegraph'').
*:"The latest online phenomenon is the free encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), which boasts more than 1.1 million entries and is growing by 7 per cent per month. Wikipedia is fast (''splutter'') and easy to use nd if you spot something you don't like, you can change it. That's because all entries are written and edited by members of the online community, creating a constantly evolving site. The democratic concept isn't exactly watertight, with debates raging over accuracy and some subjects being shut down but mostly it's a solid source of info on just about anything."
* [[Robert McHenry|McHenry, Robert]]. "Knowledge in U.S.: I know I'm right and you're wrong". March 21, 2005. ''Chicago Tribune''. <small>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0503200191mar20,1,26199.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed&ctrack=3&cset=true]</small>
*:A similar hyperbole surrounds such projects as the Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia open to all. The Wikipedia's apologists emphasize the great number of volunteers who have taken part in the project and the number of entries they have contributed. They emphasize also the communal nature of the undertaking, in which anyone with a better understanding of a subject, or a bigger ax to grind, can edit what someone else has created. Their prime article of faith is that this openness will inevitably lead to a high level of accuracy and quality.
* Price, Gary. "Wikipedia Plus Dynamic Search Term Suggestions = WikiWax". March 21, 2005. ''Search Engine Watch''. <small>[http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050321-193410]</small>
*:Surfwax has just launched its [http://www.wikiwax.com/ LookAhead search term suggestion technology] combined with Wikipedia into a new site calledWikiWax. Over 600,000 Wikipedia index terms are listed with more than 2,000,000 LookAhead rotations available. Remember, you'll see LookAhead offering suggested entries prior to clicking the search button.
* Bates, Mary Ellen. "Just the Facts, Please". March 22, 2005. ''Search Engine Watch''. <small>[http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3491861]></small>
*:Article that talks about [[answers.com]] and Wikipedia. Refers to [[Wikipedia]] as a source of information.
* Sorin Adam Matei. "The Internet, the water spring and Adrian Paunescu". March 22, 2005. ''Evenimentul Zilei online''. <small>[http://www.expres.ro/english/?news_id=182190]</small>
*:Article originally in Romanian starts with a description of the ''[[New Yorker]]s' ''"On the Internet no-one knows you're a dog" cartoon, describes Wikipedia and mentions the accuracy problem. It then describes in detail a disputed article on Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu ([[:ro:Adrian Păunescu]]):
*:"A user for the first time interested in this issue creates a biography and includes in it what he knows: Adrian Paunescu is a famous Romanian poet. Another elderly user would probably add that Paunescu was a poet close to the communist power. A fan of Flacara literary circle might erase this information, saying that Adrian Paunescu was a patriotic poet who contributed to the relaunching of "Horea's spear" song. Later on, a critic added the fact that Adrian Paunescu was a political chameleon after 1989. This contribution can also be erased, let's say, by a member of the former ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), who includes the poet, again, among the brilliant minds of the nation. This wikipedia page isn't a joke, it really exists (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_P%C4%83unescu). From it, the nationalist poet, deeply involved in the games of the communist power in the 1980s, appears as a disinterested patriot. He is presented as being persecuted by the communist-era political police Securitate and as a "supporter of the naturist medicine in the era of the advancement of chemistry". The secret of this positive biography? The last contributor of the biography of the bard from Birca was...the son of the poet, Andrei Paunescu." ...
*:"The wiki system perfectly embodies the drama of searching for information through the Internet. Although plenty and necessary, information isn't better or worse than it was its last user/creator. Internet is like a water spring. It is a quick way to quench your thirst. The problem is that you never know who was the last one who drank from it: a man or a dog."
*:''Note: Since the publication of this article, the Adrian Paunescu article appears to have been extensively truncated and vandalised.''
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