Links #1

List of links to articles, webpages, blogs, etc. concerning Wikipedia directly or indirectly

Why Wikipedia beats Wikinews as a collaborative journalism project

WikiReader: Gadget to read Wikipedia articles offline

Mawire: An application that can store and read Wikipedia articles offline

The challenges of filming the Virtual Revolution (BBC)

Google Knol: Tool for writing articles in open, moderated or closed collaboration (not as new, but still interesting)

WikiXRay: Software for quantitative analysis in Wikipedia

More Video Coming Wikipedia’s Way

How Open Source Development is Funded

WikiPock : Shrinks Wikipedia Online Database in 4GB

Wikipedia to be converted to a book in Germany

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

By nathanieltkacz, May 10, 2011

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds) About the book: For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point [...]

‘Good luck with your WikiPAIDia’: Reflections on the 2002 Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia

By nathanieltkacz, January 15, 2011

Interview between Edgar Enyedy and Nathaniel Tkacz, January 2011 In early 2002, Wikipedia had little more than 20,000 total articles. The project was still overseen by Larry Sanger. It wasn’t yet clear that Wikipedia’s ancestor and first effort by Jimmy Wales and Sanger to create a free online encyclopaedia, Nupedia, would soon be irrelevant. There [...]

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

‘Good luck with your WikiPAIDia’: Reflections on the 2002 Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia

Full report CPOV