Wikimedia Quarto/2/Media quotes

From the insightful and/or flattering:

Sep 1: "Personne ne sait tout, mais tout le monde sait quelque chose." --SVM
Sep 20: "We happen to like it because it saves us time and it mentions us" --The Inquirer
Sep 23: "Won't you be a saint and kick them over a few bucks during their pledge drive?" --The Village Voice
Sep 25: "Das Überraschende aber: Die Ordnung siegt über das Chaos." --Leipziger Volkszeitung
Sep 30: "The Font of All Knowledge" --Tim Berners-Lee at an MIT technology conference
Oct 7: "one of the wonders of the digital age" --The Guardian
Nov 1: "Even though there is no control structure...it rivals commercial encyclopedias in scope and quality of coverage." --Legal Affairs
Nov 5: "It's the ultimate expression of teamwork, and the result is spectacular." --USA Today
Nov 8: "a global project that illustrates the brainpower of the Internet" --St. Petersburg Times
Jan 5: "On a l'impression d'être aidée par une armée de bénévoles : un sentiment de puissance, sans fouet ni carotte" --CaptainDoc

To the critical:

Sep 15: "its Klingon belief in "neutral point of view" – rather than context – is where it starts to fall down" --The Register
Nov 15: "Contrary to the faith, the article has, in fact, been edited into mediocrity." --Tech Central Station
Nov : Après le "fast food", le "fast science" --Charlie Hebdo.

To the strangely amusing:

Nov 10: "How can you justify a "Weird Al" biography of only a paltry 850 words?" --The Onion

Special coverage : Coverage has included the million article milestone, comparison tests against other encyclopedias, and the hot and heavy editing that preceded the US elections.

Sep 23: "ha conseguido reunir 1.000.000 de artículos y se ha convertido en uno de los principales lugares de referencia de la Internet toda" --El Mundo
Oct 14: "Nur im naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich muss die Wikipedia ihre Spitzenposition teilen" --Die Zeit
Oct 14: "Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry have created even more debate than entries for sex and religion." --Red Herring

Other projects besides Wikipedia are getting mentioned too:

Oct 25: "Personally, I still rely on the OED most of the time, but I also look forward to a day when Wiktionary beats it hands down." --The Statesman
Dec 4: "Wikinews, the latest attempt to rethink traditional media and publishing" --eSchool News

Family watching TV in the 1950s

As evidence that the press also struggles to get its facts right, Wikipedia was founded by:

Howard Rheingold, according to the International Herald Tribune, Sep 11.
Lyndon LaRouche(?!?!), according to the (Ohio State University) Lantern, Oct 4.

Meanwhile, Wired seems to like finding creative new ways to use the word Wikipedia

as a verb, taking the place once occupied by Google:
Nov 25: "You can Wikipedia them on the Web, open source-style." --Wired Magazine
as a metaphor for life on the internet:
Dec 2: "one of a growing number of technophiles whose lives are one big Wikipedia" --Wired News