[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia for Journalists by Columbia Professor Sree Sreenivasan

Sun Mar 14 01:56:11 UTC 2004

"Wikipedia for Journalists"
By Sree Sreenivasan
Columbia Professor & Poynter Visiting Professor
Poynter Online

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126

Here's an excerpt:
"So far, the effort has created numerous reference-quality articles as wide 
ranging as the Hutton Inquiry, algorithms, social history of the piano, 
origins of the American Civil War, and severe acute respiratory syndrome. As 
its quality has improved, news publications have increasingly cited 
Wikipedia on subjects such as Wahhabism, crony capitalism, folk metal, 
British 'honours' system, Abdul Qadeer Khan and extinct animals. It has even 
been used in litigation, when in July 2003, a Wikipedia article on profanity 
was cited in a motion to dismiss a case in a Colorado court."

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