Timeline of public perception of Wikipedia
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2001 [edit]
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| Press and public perception | 2001-03-05 |
Wikipedia is briefly mentioned in a Slashdot article about Nupedia and Project Gutenberg.
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| Press and public perception | 2001-03-29 |
Jimmy Wales mentions Wikipedia in response to a Slashdot article about an Everything2 milestone.
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| Press and public perception | 2001-07-25 |
Kuro5hin article by Larry Sanger (in response to Britannica's decision to start charging fees for access) featured on Slashdot the following day.
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This article is remembered by Wikipedians as having brought a lot of traffic to the site. add Wikipedians entry
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| Press and public perception | 2001-08-26 |
First known media report about Wikipedia
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"Both Encarta and Britannica are official publications with well-deserved reputations. But there are other options, such as the homemade encyclopaedias. One is Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) which uses clever software to build an encyclopaedia from scratch. Wiki is software installed on a web server that allows anyone to edit any of the pages. At the Wikipedia, anyone can write about any subject they know about. The idea is that over time, enough experts will offer their knowledge for free and build up the world's ultimate hand-built database of knowledge. The disadvantage is that it's still an ongoing project. So far about 8,000 articles have been written and the editors are aiming for 100,000."
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| Press and public perception | 2001-09-20 |
New York Times article
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Republished in the International Herald Tribune on 2001-09-24.
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| Press and public perception | 2001-09-24 |
Second Kuro5hin article by Larry Sanger
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| Press and public perception | 2004-06 |
Wikipedia blocked in China for two weeks
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| Press and public perception | 2004 |
Bourgeois v. Peters (11th Cir. 2004) was one of the earliest court opinions to cite and quote Wikipedia.
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| Press and public perception | 2008-12-06 |
The Internet Watch Foundation adds Wikipedia to its blacklist and censors the Virgin Killer article.
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