Wikinews:In the news

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Wikinews is occasionally discussed by others. Here are a few of the links we've heard of... (also try google)

Mainstream media citations

Websites that regularly and or occasionally mirror/post Wikinews articles

November 2006

Cited by a major news paper as a source:

"Council's done A1 job, says Mihevic" — Metro Today, November 8, 2006

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Whatever Councillor Joe Mihevc's flaws, false modesty is not among them. The Ward 21, St. Paul's councillor, facing a strong challenge from veteran politicians John Sewell and John Adams, answered a survey from Internet site Wikinews that asked, in part, what city council decisions of the past term were the least desirable. His answer? "Ward 21 was well served by City Council, " he replied. "No adverse decisions were made."

June 2007

Mark Glaser. "10 Reasons There's a Bright Future for Journalism" — PBS, June 28, 2007

+ A ton of other articles citing Chris Benoit mystery editor confesses: claims "terrible coincidence" and related articles.

Mainstream media

November 2004

Joanna Glasner. "Wikipedia Creators Move Into News" — Wired, November 29, 2004

December 2004

Leslie Walker. "Citizens use Web to redefine news" — The Washington Post, December 12, 2004
J. Murali. "Wikinews: News service with collaborative reporting" — The Hindu, December 13, 2004
Robert D. Hof. "All The News You See Fit To Write" — Business Week, December 27, 2004
"Wikinews Offers Content From Citizen Journalists" — The Write News, December 28, 2004
Neil McIntosh. "Wikipedia on the Indian Ocean earthquake" — Guardian Unlimited, December 30, 2004
Roberto Belo. "Blogs take on the mainstream" — BBC News, December 31, 2004

January 2005

Martin LaMonica. "Open-sourcing the news" — news.com, January 7, 2005

July 2005

A. Asohan. "WikiNews, OhmyNews to work together?" — The Star, July 4, 2005
Vauhini Vara. "Bloggers and Photographers Chronicle Chaos in London" — Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2005
Stewart Kirkpatrick. "Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Attack on London" — The Scotsman, July 8, 2005
- The July 7 article on Wikinews did indeed report the figure that was given at the July 7 press conference. Wikinews reported the updated totals, given to the press later, in later separate stories on subsequent days: Death toll from London bombings rises to 37, London bombing death toll rises to "more than 50" (2nd lead for much of July 8)
Joe Light. "Camera phones play major role in coverage" — Boston Globe, July 8, 2005
Rob O'Neill. "Now we're all journalists" — The Age, July 11, 2005
Francis Till. "'Citizen journalists' move to centre stage after London bombings" — The National Business Review, July 12, 2005
Jemima Kiss. "Wikinews supercharged by London bombings coverage" — Online Journalism News, July 13, 2005

February 2006

Yuki Noguchi. "Wikipedia's Help From the Hill" — Washington Post, February 9, 2006
Chris Nuttall. "Wikipedia users expose flattery by political staff" — MSNBC, February 8, 2006

June 2006

Frankie Roberto. "A citizen among journalists" — BBC News, June 20, 2006
Ana Kronschnabel and Thomas Rawlings. "Wiki Revolution a New Curve on Information Highway" — LinuxInsider, June 28, 2006

May 2007

"Crowd pleasing made easy" — Sydney Morning Herald, May 24, 2007

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However, most other attempts at citizen journalism haven't fared so well.
Cincinnati Enquirer's Gregory Korte: "Certainly, people are more than willing to give their opinion. Providing information is something else. And expecting people to go out of their way - to do anything like the kind of reporting that professional journalists do - just isn't realistic."
Even Wikipedia, arguably the most successful crowdsourcing site available, hasn't exactly shaken the world with Wikinews, its attempt at citizen journalism that was launched more than two years ago.

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July 2007

Steven Fruitsmaak. "English Wikinews publishes 10000th article" — UK Indymedia, July 9, 2007

September 2007

Mathew Ingram. "Wikinews creating candidate interview database" — Globe and Mail, September 18, 2007

October 2007

Randy Salas. "Wiki policing efforts go unsung" — gazzete.com, October 5, 2007

"At least 150 militants and 50 Pakistani troops killed in clashes" — voiceofarizona.com, October 9, 2007

"1,000,000 flee homes in California due to wildfires; over 500,000 ordered to evacuate" — www.indybay.org, October 24, 2007

"Teacher sexual misconduct rampant in American schools, says AP" — KRGV, October 22, 2007

kdawson. "Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions" — Slashdot, October 31, 2007

Nick Farrell. "Wikipedia falls foul of the comic book crowd" — The Inquirer, October 31, 2007

November 2007

Steve Leng. "Argentina's sixteenth Pride event is great success" — PinkNews.co.uk, November 20, 2007

Ruben Francia. "Dutch Justice Department bans employees from using Wikipedia" — TECH.BLORGE.com, November 19, 2007

Wikinews. "Pedophiles wearing BoyLover logos, says FBI document" — BigNewsNetwork.com, November 17, 2007

Originally published by Randy A. Salas Star Tribune.. "Virtual Volunteers Perform Online 'Community Service'" — RedOrbit, November 17, 2007

Wikinews. "Internally distributed DHS memo: al-Qaeda and Hezbollah may attack U.S. within three years" — Silobreaker, November 16, 2007

Wikinews. "DHS: al-Qaeda and Hezbollah planning to attack U.S. within three years" — Daylife.com, November 15, 2007

jeudi. "Le FBI dévoile les symboles utilisés par les pédophiles" — spcm.org, November 15, 2007

Wikinews. "FBI document exposes symbols used by pedophiles" — Brujula.net, November 14, 2007

December 2007

"Benazir Bhutto killed in suicide attack" — The Budapest Times, December 27, 2007
Cnaan Liphshiz. "Your wiki entry counts" — Haaretz, December 25, 2007
Herb Keinon. "Leading Wikipedia editor to visit Israel" — The Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2007

January 2008

Zonk. "Internet Group Declares War on Scientology" — Slashdot, January 24, 2008
Lucas Graves. "Everyone's a Reporter: A guide to grassroots journalism." — Wired News, January 23, 2008
"Church of Scientology website being attacked by hackers" — Budapest Times, January 20, 2008
"Wikinews Gets Big Interview: Israeli President Shimon Peres" — The Livermore Report, January 16, 2008
Jonathan. "Wikinews interviews Shimon Peres" — CyberJournalist.net, January 16, 2008
"Wikinews gets big interview: Israeli President Shimon Peres" — iTnews, January 15, 2008
"Wikinews Gets Big Interview: Israeli President Shimon Peres" — Nanotechnology Now, January 14, 2008
K.C. Jones. "Wikinews Gets Big Interview: Israeli President Shimon Peres" — InformationWeek, January 14, 2008
Admin. "“No Treaty Withdrawal”, Says Lakota Elder" — Net New Publisher, January 11, 2008
David M. Kinchen. "PARALLEL UNIVERSE: The News About the News Biz Is Almost All Bad" — HNN Huntingtonnews.net, January 5, 2008

February 2008

Michaël Laurent. "(Interview) Drupal founder Dries Buytaert balances community and company interests" — Indymedia.be, February 25, 2008
michaël. "Open software developers meet at FOSDEM 2008" — Indymedia.be, February 25, 2008
Andrew Ramadge. "Scientology protest surge crashes websites" — NEWS.com.au, February 14, 2008
"'Anonymous' takes anti-Scientology to the streets" — Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2008
"Hackers wage web war on Scientologists" — Telegraph.co.uk, February 4, 2008
Kris Alexander. "Anthrax Hoaxes Hit Scientology HQs, Bad Thetans" — Wired News, February 4, 2008

March 2008

DragonFire1024. "Huge Interest Brings Wikileaks Offline" — Slashdot, March 29, 2008
"Interest in ’Fitna’ crashes WikiLeaks site" — World Student Press Agency, March 29, 2008
Theangryindian. "Church of Scientology's 'Operating Thetan' documents leaked online - Wikinews" — NewsCloud, March 26, 2008
Peter. "Church of Scientology Full version of Operating Thetan leaked: your opinions" — Product Reviews, March 26, 2008
Juha Saarinen. "FryUp: An Easter sermon" — Computerworld New Zealand, March 20, 2008
Andrew Ramadge. "Scientology site gets a facelift after protests" — NEWS.com.au, March 20, 2008
Andrew Ramadge. "Scientology launches online campaign" — PerthNew, March 20, 2008
Robert X. Cringely. "Scientology, The China Syndrome, and my wiki ways" — Infoworld, March 19, 2008

April 2008

Matthew Sparkes. "Department of Justice banned from Wikipedia" — PC Pro, April 29, 2008
Diane Mermigas. "Old-Line Media, Voters In Cyberspace Disconnect" — Mediapost, April 24, 2008
"Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents" — Infoshop, April 15, 2008
"Authorities in Belgium raid Church of Scientology" — The Budapest Times, April 12, 2008
D. "Belgium Raids Scientology Center, Seizes Documents, Shuts Down Facility" — Glosslip, April 11, 2008
Red Wolf. "Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents" — Newsvine, April 7, 2008
"Tomorrow's nonsense today" — The Guardian, April 5, 2008
Colleen Asper. "David Shankbone with Colleen Asper" — Brooklyn Rail, April 5, 2008

January 2009

Adam Rose. "The Wikinews Ace: Why Shimon Peres sat down with David Shankbone" — Columbia Journalism Review, January 2009

Web sites

December 2004

Tim Wilson. "Wikinews project debuts" — eSchool News, December 4, 2004
"Wiki opens a news service" — DarkVision Hardware, December 5, 2004
Todd Thacker. "What's Next for Dan Gillmor?" — Ohmy News, December 12, 2004
Jemima Kiss. "Wikinews trumpets online revolution" — Journalism.co.uk, December 15, 2004

2005

Axel Bruns. "Wikinews: The Next Generation of Alternative Online News?" — A Bruns - Proceedings Association of Internet Researchers Conference, 2005

Good read.

January 2005

Steve Rubel. "Can Wikimedia Revolutionize Journalism With Open Source News?" — WebProNews, January 7, 2005
R. Isible. "Wikipedia co-founder discusses WikiNews and attacks Indymedia" — Indymedia, January 8, 2005
Jon Bonné. "Squeezing information down to size" — MSNBC, January 25, 2005
Edward Cone. "Making inside of newsroom as big as outside" — News & Record, January 30, 2005

February 2005

Janine Kahn. "Wikinews puts news consumers in the editor's chair" — Online Journalism Review, February 10, 2005
"Wikinews Holds Online Conference with Bloggers" — Chatmag News, February 11, 2005
"Is Wikinews the next AP?" — p2pnet.net, February 15, 2005

March 2005

This site is mentioning us quite a bit "As Wikinews reports..." : various. "The World Forum" — The World Forum, viewed March 26, 2005

May 2005

Chris Anderson "Grassroots Journalism on the Web: An Overview (pdf)". May 6, 2005

June 2005

Steve Outing "The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism". poynter.org, June 13, 2005

July 2005

William Pollard. "Citizen Reporters Turn to Print for Delivery" — OhmyNews, July 11, 2005

June 2006

Axel Bruns. "Wikinews: The Next Generation of Online News?" — Scan Journal, June, 2006

August 2006

Michael Lomas. "Write a Novel in 72 Hours!" — ohMyNews, August 29, 2006

Not about us in any way, but mention our writing contest in a paragraph near the end

October 2006

Thelwall, M. & Hellsten. "The BBC, Daily Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the terrorist attacks of 7th July 2006 in London: a comparison with contemporary discussions" — Information Research, October 1, 2006

Compares Wikinews', BBC's, and Daily Telegraph's reportings on the July 7th bombings.

February 2007

Matt Conte and Billy Wellock. "Professor lectures about journalism ethics" — The Daily Collegian Online, February 21, 2007
Apparently we have been mentioned in the lecture.

May 2007

Stephan Spencer. "The Art Of Search Engine Optimalization For Wikipedia & 16 Tips To Gain Respect" — Search Engine Land, May 3, 2007

Tip nr. 8: Keep Wikipedia sister sites like Wikinews on your radar. For one, Wikipedia's sister sites form part of the internal link network, unlike regular external links. Second, these sites get traffic, search engine visibility, and links too. You might even want to incorporate into your PR strategy getting coverage on Wikinews. Just like your PR firm or PR department would approach journalists with story pitches in the mainstream media, they can approach Wikinews correspondents as well.

October 2007

Paul McNamara. "Wikipedia at war with Web comic strips" — NetworkWorld.com, October 31, 2007
Doug Caverly. "Protests Grow Over Wikipedia Deletions" — WebProNews, October 31, 2007
Benjamin Mako Hill. "Wikinews and Multiperspectival Reporting (Thesis)" — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 3, 2007

Wikinews is a wiki in which users write news articles collaboratively. The project, established in 2004, is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that also supports Wikipedia. Wikinews has produced over 37,000 articles in 22 languages, with roughly one quarter of those in the English language version of the site. The site foundered early; its output seems to have stabilized to about 4-6 news articles daily, compared to an average of 16 articles each day in 2004.

Comment: Although it's a thesis, the author didn't quite like us too much. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 18:49, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

November 2007

Goat. "Great interview of Peter Gilmore" — satanists.tribe.net, November 22, 2007
Drzava. "watch out, pedophiles have a secret society, with secret symbols and everything" — Abovetopsecret.com, November 14, 2007
roboblogger. "12 'fire bombs' found inside Buffalo, New York apartment house" — topix.com, November 8, 2007
Jenny Wells. "Creator of PostSecret to Give Lecture" — University of Kentucky, November 2, 2007
Cheryl Biren-Wright. "Et Tu, ACLU? Et Tu?" — OpEdNews, November 2, 2007

January 2008

(K)omputers. "Church of Scientology website being attacked by hackers" — Poor Mojo Newswire, January 21, 2008
walski69. "Wikinews: Malaysian government warns citizens about Uncyclopedia" — uClue, January 16, 2008
jwpaine. "No Withdrawal - Lakota Elder" — PiratBallerina, January 12, 2008
"Elder is one of the Lakota Nation's Declaration of Independence spoke of" — Native Heart, January 11, 2008
Blackbear. "Lakota Freedom Delegation says spokesman Russell Means 'hijacked'" — Powwow.com, January 7, 2008

February 2008

Douglas Sanders. "[News Broken Pipes at Darwin Martin]" — DouglasSanders.com, February 12, 2008
"Wikinews international report: “Anonymous” holds anti-Scientology protests worldwide" — FACTnet, February 10, 2008
Patty Pieniadz. "Church of Scientology: '"Anonymous' will be stopped"" — alt.religion.scientology (Google Groups), February 4, 2008

March 2008

"Huge Interest Brings Wikileaks Offline" — News Hampster, March 29, 2008
"Thread: Banned Movie: The Profit. Spoof on Scientology." — G4TV, March 24, 2008
"Parody of Scientology appears on Web" — formaementis, March 23, 2008
Anonomouse. "Obigatory WikiNews Post on the Ides Protest" — enturbulation.org, March 15, 2008

April 2008

"Wikileaks retaliates against Scientology" — Godlike Productions, April 7, 2008
"Wikileaks thumbs its nose at Scientology, promises to release thousands of more documents" — TGDaily, April 7, 2008
Humphrey Cheung. "Wikileaks Thumbs Its Nose At Scientology, Promises To Release Thousands Of More Documents" — TomsHardware.com, April 7, 2008
"Cult threatening to sue Wikileaks" — Google groups (alt.religion.scientology), April 7, 2008
"Wikileaks.org Tells Church Of Scientology To Get Bent" — Glosslip, April 7, 2008

Blogs

January 2005

Joan Connell Sea Change editor@msn, January 20, 2005

February 2005

Scott Kveton Stop Hassling Linus Kveton Blog, February 3, 2005

Seriously, it mentions us. Second from last paragraph!

Joi Ito. "Wikinews meets the bloggers" — Joi Ito's Web, February 07, 2005
Korby Parnell. "The Era of Transparency: WikiNews Wants You" — Korby Parnell's WebLog, February 7, 2005
mcgee Newsworthy: Old and new media duke it out Rational Explanation, February 8, 2005
Wikinews Holds Online Conference with Bloggers Chatmag News, February 11, 2005
Robert Andrews Whacking Wikinews Robert Andrews, February 11, 2005
Gordon Wikinews Conglomerate, February 12, 2005
Mitch Ratcliffe Plurality, not neutrality. RatcliffeBlog, February 12, 2005

and just in case you were wondering who he was that night search google for (rashomon AND wikinews) (Thanks Simmo for the catch)

Bertrand Pecquerie Jimmy Wales to the Editors Weblog: "on Wikinews, every contributor can be an editor" editorsweblog.org, February 18, 2005
John Burke Wikis vs. blogs, to faces of citizen media editorsweblog.org, February 25, 2005

March 2005

Simon Waldman Wikinews on the Budget SimonWaldman.net, March 17, 2005
Simon Waldman On the earthquake coverage.. SimonWaldman.net, March 29, 2005

April 2005

J MoveOn.org postulating 'citizen journalism' effort Jossip, April 8, 2005
Frank Barnako News without rules - DUH! Barnako.com, April 22, 2005
Snurb Wikinews Gives You Wiiings! Snurblog, April 23, 2005
john burke Wikinews: the trials and tribulations of editing citizen journalism editorsweblog.org, April 28, 2005
Matthew Yeomans The Birth of Wikinews Citizens Kane, April 28, 2005
Pretend News Question Technology, April 30, 2005

May 2005

Contentology.com Q & A: Interview with Jimmy Wales Contentology.com, May 7, 2005

July 2005

Incident.blog Open-Source Sitreps from London Incident.blog, July 7, 2005

November 2006

Robin Good Introduction To Wikipedia And WikiNews: How The Web Is Transforming Itself - Part IV Master new media, November 23, 2006

January 2007

Phlebas The Ashley Treatment Phlebas considered, July 6, 2007
From Indymedia to Indyjournalism investigativeblog, January 18, 2007

May 2007

Stephan Spencer The Art Of SEO For Wikipedia & 16 Tips To Gain Respect SearchEngineLand, May 3, 2007

See section 8 under Sixteen tips for becoming a respected wikipedian.

September 2007

msjennabird Research post... it's long I know... tried to attach it rockchucks, September 23, 2007

October 2007

Teemu Leinonen Do not localize – make your own flosse.dicole.org, October 12, 2007
chriswaterguy Wikinews is good news chriswaterguy, October 29, 2007

November 2007

‘New News’ Challenges False Narratives of Reality tazblog, November 21, 2007
SeanOsborne Internally distributed DHS memo: al-Qaeda and Hezbollah may attack U.S. within three years The NEIN Blog, November 15, 2007
Grimm Culhane Alice Cooper says, “Ozzy should separate himself from reality all together.” Abort Magazine, November 3, 2007

January 2008

Burge Great Interview: Shimon Peres discusses the future of Israel The Blog of JesusRaptureMe.com, January 14, 2008
Wiki News Interview w/ Shimon Peres (as promised) IsRealli, January 9, 2008
Wiki News Interview w/ Shimon Peres (as promised) JBlog Central, January 9, 2008
Innocent Dave Update: Lakota Freedom The Wild Hunt Blog, January 7, 2008
Leonard Peltier Lakota Freedom Delegation says spokesman Russell Means 'hijacked' organization Blogspot: Friends of Leonard Peltier, January 5, 2008
Rob Schmidt Means hijacks Lakotah Freedom Newspaper Rock, January 5, 2008

February 2008

Mars Group Kenya Kenya: Kenyans Would Vouch For Wikileaks – If We Were Asked African Path, February 23, 2008
EMO Flooding At The D.D. Martin House PrarieMod, February 12, 2008
D. "Feb. 10 Anonymous Protests Against Scientology From Around The Globe, Pics, Links and More" — GlossLip, February 10, 2008

April 2008

Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents ReligiousNewsBlog, April 7, 2008

September 2009

David Gerard So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? David Gerard, September 26, 2009

Mainstream media citations

Websites that regularly and or occasionally mirror/post Wikinews articles

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See also