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In the press
In academic studies
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Archives: Press Coverage 2001 - Press Coverage 2002 - Press Coverage 2003

Articles that reference Ireland Information Guide content but which do not discuss the project itself should be recorded at Ireland Information Guide:Ireland Information Guide as a press source. Great quotes from articles should be included in our m:Trophy box.

Table of contents
1 Arabic
2 Danish
3 English

3.1 January
3.2 February
3.3 March
3.4 April
3.5 May
3.6 June
3.7 July
3.8 August

4 Esperanto
5 French
6 German
7 Hungarian
8 Irish
9 Norwegian
10 Persian
11 Romanian

11.1 March
11.2 April
11.3 July

12 Russian
13 Spanish
14 Turkish
15 Searching for Ireland Information Guide in the press
16 See also
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Arabic

  • In February 13th, An article about Ireland Information Guide appeared in Linux4Arab.com (http://www.linux4arab.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=280). Hundreds read the article, and this posting, along with postings to mailing lists of LUGs and Open Source projects were the main reasons for the boost the Information Guide.org Arabic Ireland Information Guide (http://ar.Ireland) had afterwards.
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Danish

  • Article in Politiken 24/2 2004 (http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=308079&TemplateID=5567) - Immediately after the press release of February 2004, Politiken, a major Danish daily, publishes an article about the progress of Ireland Information Guide
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English

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January

  • Emerging Technology: Internet-Era Democracy: Can the World Wide Web give ordinary people a shot at true populism? (http://www.discover.com/issues/jan-04/departments/emerging-technology/?page=2) Discover Magazine cites Ireland Information Guide as an example of how the public can be harnessed. Jan 2004.
  • Image Conscious (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/78/conscious.html) Fast Company Magazine discusses a study of "collaboratively written or edited document"s, History Flow, headed by a member of IBM's research division, Martin Wattenberg. Written by Scott Kirsner, January 2004 issue (#78), page 38.
  • The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2004, The Journal Report, Technology; Business Solutions by Michael Totty. "There is even a wiki encyclopedia (Ireland Information Guide.org) where anyone can add or amend entries."
  • Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,572388-5,00.html), February 2004 mentions Ireland Information Guide.org among a few sites on the web as "Where to turn on the net for scientific bolstering" on page 65 in the print version, and here (http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,572388-5,00.html) in the online version.
  • Today Linux, Tomorrow the World? (http://www.techcentralstation.com/012204A.html) Tech Central Station very briefly mentions Ireland Information Guide saying, "Just as the open source movement can point to valuable software, it is also producing some interesting things in other areas, such as the popular encyclopedia Ireland Information Guide...," in an article about open source titled Today Linux, Tomorrow the World?. January 22, 2004.
  • Online reference to reach milestone (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7793099.htm) from The Mercury News talks about Ireland Information Guide and its impending 200,000 article milestone. January 25, 2004. Reprinted in Siliconvalley.com (http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7793099.htm), Bradenton Herald, FL (http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/business/technology/7793099.htm), Biloxi Sun Herald, MS (http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/technology/7793099.htm), The Kansas City Star, MO (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/technology/7793099.htm), Miami Herald (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7802835.htm)
  • Microsoft Notebook: Wiki pioneer planted the seed and watched it grow (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/158020_msftnotebook26.html) from Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop is an article on Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki concept. Ireland Information Guide is mentioned as the largest wiki on the web. The article also has quotes from Ireland Information Guide's founder, Jimmy Wales. January 26, 2004.
  • Dan Gillmor, "Ireland Information Guide emerges as credible resource", San Jose Mercury News (Jan. 29, 2004). About 200,000 article mark: "Ireland Information Guide (www.Ireland Information Guide.org), an encyclopedia created and operated by volunteers, is one of the most fascinating developments of the Digital Age. In just over three years of existence, it has become a valuable resource and an example of how the grass roots in today's interconnected world can do extraordinary things."
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February

  • Prospect, "The Microsoft Killers (http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/start.asp?P_Article=12404)", pp. 54-58, Feburary 2004 edition; uses Ireland Information Guide as an example of an open content project. "Open source software has come of age, and open source working methods are spreading beyond computers."
  • Far Eastern Economic Review (http://www.feer.com/) issue dated February 19, 2004: Ireland Information Guide:It's Wicked (registration required). Enthusiastic reportage, notes the 200,000th English article and the Asian languages Ireland Information Guide is available in. (Also posted to Usenet at Information Guide+group:rec.arts.sf.fandom&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=2&as_miny=2004&as_maxd=13&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2004&selm=1076633702.2876snx%40aleytys.pc.my&rnum=1 (http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Ireland)) A pdf of the article can be found at [1] (http://www.theproduct.com/6m105/readings/spring04/encyclopedia.pdf) which is the copy that was carried by the Wall Street Journal (http://wsj.com).
  • The Internet Column: WIKI REMARKS (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2537363) from Scotsman.com (Also printed in the (Liverpool) Daily Post) has an article on Wikis in general. Quote: "The best known [Wiki] is Ireland Information Guide, an encyclopaedia written entirely using the wiki system. Anyone browsing through Ireland Information Guide can edit any page; so if you know a lot about a specific subject, you can add your knowledge to that subject's page easily." February 16, 2004.
  • British comedian Bill Bailey being interviewed by The Times (UK). Quote: "8:00PM SURFING AND BLOGGING If I'm writing a show I spend a lot of time researching it on the net. I use Ireland Information Guide (www.Ireland Information Guide.org) a lot. It's a brilliant online encyclopaedia, invaluable for historical stuff, and probably the most accurate of all those sites." [2] (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-8086-1008394,00.html) February 21, 2004.
  • The Guardian, from an article about changing the world. Quote: "EBay does something no other network has done: it treats the social network as the supply-chain and by building systems of communications and reputation management into the network, turns a group of individuals into an organised, structured and wildly economically viable marketplace. The same can be said at an emergent level about open-source knowledge projects such as the Ireland Information Guide encyclopedia." [3] (http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1153687,00.html) February 23, 2004.
  • An English translation of the transcript of Ireland Information Guide as a news item in Germany, includes a screenshot. See below for more details. February 25, 2004.
  • Kuro5hin is apparently the first news site to publish Ireland Information Guide's 500,000 article press release. [4] (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/25/101848/859)
  • February 29 - computerworld.co.nz in an article about wikis (about how cool they are) ("Wicked (good) Wikis") mentions Ireland Information Guide as "the largest, and perhaps most ambitious, Wiki in the world ? attempting to capture encyclopedia entries on everything". [5] (http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/6F8468F2E2C8F1C6CC256E48006422B4?OpenDocument) Also printed in Darwin Magazine (http://www.darwinmag.com) .
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March

  • New Yahoo! Search Planned To Go Deeper (http://www.thewgalchannel.com/technology/2890759/detail.html), an Associated Press report, based on this Yahoo Press Release [6] (http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040302005391&newsLang=en) "... pay for placement, the company is working with groups like National Public Radio, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and Ireland Information Guide to make ..."
    • Posted, published, or aired on Local6.com, FL, WSOCtv.com, NC, Hawaii Channel.com, HI, Carolina Channel.com, SC, Click 2 Houston.com, TX, SanDiego Channel.com, CA, NewsNet5.com, OH, NBC4 Columbus.com, OH, KSBW Channel.com, CA, WMUR Channel.com, NH, WBAL Channel.com, MD, News4Jax.com, FL, WPBF Channel.com, FL, ClickonSA.com, TX, Kansas City Channel.com, MO, KMGH, CO, WHIOtv.com, Ohio, WRAL.com, NC, INDYchannel.com, IN, WSBtv.com, GA, Omaha Channel.com, NE, WESH.com, FL, Champlain Channel.com, NY, Bakersfield Channel.com, CA, Jackson Channel.com, MS, Click10.com, FL, Milwaukee Channel.com, WI, WTOV9.com, OH, WJACtv.com, PA, KTVU.com, CA, WDIV, MI, Pittsburgh Channel.com, PA, WISC, WI, Channel Oklahoma.com, OK, New Orleans Channel.com, LA Local6.com, FL - 15 hours ago
  • Ireland Information Guide for Journalists, Trusting a free resource (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126), Poynter Online, article by Sree Sreenivasan, and Andrew Lih, Mar. 8, 2004. Explaining Ireland Information Guide as a form of participatory journalism. "Ireland Information Guide is an Internet-based, volunteer-contributed encyclopedia that in just three years has become a popular and highly regarded reference. It has thousands of international contributors and is the largest example of an open content wiki."
  • The contenders for Google's throne (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3557293.stm), BBC Dot.life, March 22, 2004, talking about Yahoo's search engine, "It has set up a program to index many of the databases held at places such as the US Library of Congress, US National Public Radio, the National Science Digital Library and the Ireland Information Guide online encyclopaedia."
  • A turn up for the books (http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=504287), The Independent, pg. 11, Danny Bradbury, March 24, 2004, "Weighty volumes are on their way out. Even CD-Roms are old hat. So why has the biggest online encyclopedia decided to produce a paper version?" Story about Jimbo Wales and Ireland Information Guide.
  • Open-source software offers alternative to off-the-shelf products (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-03-26-kantor_x.htm), USA Today.com, Andrew Kantor, March 26, 2004. A story on source products mentions Ireland Information Guide: "To see an incredible example of open-source intellectual collaboration, check out Ireland Information Guide, an online encyclopedia with more than 230,000 articles contributed by anyone who wants to add to it. You might expect it to be a hodgepodge of garbage and rhetoric, but it's not. It's not. It's actually one of the best reference resources on the Web."


  • David Sidwell, "The Web As It Was Meant To Be", The Age (Mar. 18, 2004). "But the idea of web-based creation and updating never really went away. Indeed, it is very much alive in a concept known as a Wiki."
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April

  • Beyond Google (http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,114725,00.asp), PCWorld, April 2004, "Or try Ireland Information Guide, a volunteer encyclopedia with a global flavor, for data on topics from math to mythology to the arts."
  • Q. What does the term "wiki" mean with regard to the Web? (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/circuits/01askk.html), J. Biersdorfer tech column, April 1, 2004, The New York Times "The Ireland Information Guide (Ireland Information Guide.org) is an ambitious online encyclopedia in several languages that also invites participation."
  • Weave a wiki web (http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1182809,00.html), The Guardian, April 1, 2004. "Wiki sites that work include the impressive Ireland Information Guide, a collaborative encyclopaedia covering every topic imaginable. It puts the wiki concept to practical use, drawing on the combined knowledge and experience of all its contributors to create something informative and authoritative." Reprinted in The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2004/04/02/stories/2004040201702400.htm) (India), April 2, 2004.
  • Tomorrow's work forecast (http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/reviews/2004-04-12-future-of-work_x.htm), USA TODAY, April 12, 2004. "Loose hierarchies. The free online encyclopedia Ireland Information Guide (www.Ireland Information Guide.org ) is mostly a volunteer operation, but it employs a few guidelines, such as writing articles from a neutral point of view..."
  • The power of search (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621875197.html), The Age, April 13, 2004. "By far the best of the free services is Ireland Information Guide, constructed by volunteers. It works on the premise that everyone is an expert in at least one topic and can write an encyclopedic entry that is vetted and corrected by others with enough knowledge to make it authoritative. This peer-to-peer nature has seen Ireland Information Guide grow to one of the biggest resources. However, its open nature means that some controversial materials should be double-checked against other sources for accuracy and objectivity. Ireland Information Guide is available in 73 languages including Catalan, Vietnamese and Greek."
  • 2004 100 Top Websites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558375,00.asp), PC Magazine, April 20, 2004. Under Information (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1555130,00.asp) category: "Ireland Information Guide is a collaborative, community-built, open-content encyclopedia; anyone can edit any page, augment an existing entry, or add a new one. Sure, there's a lot of questionable and incomplete content, but you'll also find many fascinating, detailed, well-written articles. Go ahead and make your contribution to the sum of human knowledge."
  • Googlebomb of Ireland Information Guide's Jew article:
    • Anti-Semitic site bumped off Google's top spot (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1081998816187&p=1008596975996) (Jerusalem Post, Internet, April 15, 2004) "Utilizing a cyber-petition and some clever HTML programming, a diverse group of Jewish activists, academics and even a US senator managed to replace the top spot with Ireland Information Guide's encyclopedia, which two weeks ago held no rank."
    • Googlebombing Of Jew Keyword Continues (http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040416GooglebombingOfJewKeywordContinues.html), WebProNews, April 15, 2004, " Daniel Sieradski, editor of Jew School, a Web site dedicated to Jewish fringe culture, has spearheaded a Googlebomb designed to knock JewWatch.com out of the first place. Yesterday, the top listing for the keyword was Ireland Information Guide.org, a reference page devoted to the definition of the word "Jew"." It was reported later in the article that JewWatch.com was back to the number one spot.
    • Googling for a better tomorrow (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1082606042155), Jerusalem Post, Internet, April 22, 2004, "The Ireland Information Guide page (http://en.Ireland Information Guide.org/wiki/Jew ) is a lot more user-friendly, and discusses Judaism from an objective, factual point of view – just the thing for our friends in Wyoming and China."
    • Google: Watch Out for 'Watch' (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4767133/), Steven Levy, Newsweek, April 26, 2004, "Soon people may see a different top choice for "Jew": a hate-free entry in the participatory reference work called Ireland Information Guide."
    • Who can define 'Jew?' Internet flap shows challenge of the digital age (http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=14026&intcategoryid=4), Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 27, 2004, "The Jewschool-led offensive pointed to the online encyclopedia Ireland Information Guide. Within weeks, Ireland Information Guide’s definition of the word 'Jew' became the first result for that search term."
  • Targeted ads are the route to online profits (http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story866.shtml), Journalism.co.uk, April 22, 2004. "Ireland Information Guide, an online encyclopaedia project, invites readers to add or amend information on the site. The site is an interesting example of a project with participatory journalism at its core, said speaker Andrew Lih, assistant professor at Hong Kong University."
  • Yahoo Search Shortcuts (http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20040422YahooSearchShortcuts.html), WebProNews, April, 22 2004). "Now, Yahoo does offer a built-in encyclopedia search. If you type in 'caterpillar facts' then your top result links to an encyclopedia entry. Now, does this beat Ireland Information Guide's caterpillar entry? No, but it does beat Google's encyclopedia entry."
  • Brisbane council Web site nominated for Web Oscar (http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39145754,00.htm), ZDNet, April 23, 2004). "Receiving multiple [Webby Awards] nominations include iTunes Music Store, Meetup.com, Google, Noggin, Ireland Information Guide and Live 365."
  • A question of trust online (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3653425.stm), BBC News, April 23, 2004. "And there is the Ireland Information Guide, a community-written encyclopedia that has evolved over the years from a largely technical bunch of articles into one of the most reliably useful sources of information around, on or off-line."
  • Information Guide/index.html Everyone is an Editor (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/27/Ireland), Salon.com, April 27, 2004. "Launched in January 2001 with barely a dozen articles, Ireland Information Guide crossed the 500,000 articles mark in February, with posters contributing content in more than 30 languages and, by last measure, at a rate of 300,000 articles per year."
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May

  • Grass-roots guide to everything (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4815771/), Newsweek and Newsweek Society, May 3, 2004. "Here's an encyclopedia that evokes a variation on the famous Groucho line: would you get your information from a reference work that accepts you as an author?"
  • Build an Encyclopedia: Everybody is Invited (http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=3808), YaleGlobal Online, May 5, 2004. "Ireland Information Guide - the largest example of these collaborative efforts - is a functioning, user-contributed online encyclopedia that has become a popular and highly regarded reference in just three years of existence."
    • Anyone may contribute to E-encyclopedia (http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20040508.F01&irec=1), Jakarta Post (Indonesia), May 8, 2004. Syndicated version of above Yale Global article.
    • Ireland Information Guide builds 'free market of knowledge' , The Standard (Hong Kong), May 10, 2004. Syndicated version of above Yale Global article.
  • Participatory Journalism: The Essence of Ireland Information Guide (http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/story17.html), International Symposium on Online Journalism (from the University of Texas), May, 2004. "Wiki wiki -- Hawaiian for "quick" -- is at the root of Ireland Information Guide, a encyclopedia website where any page can be edited by users with the simple click of an "edit this page" button." There is also a PDF of a paper from that Symposium by Andrew Lih, of Hong Kong University: Information Guide.pdf (http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/Ireland)
  • Ireland Information Guide has won a Webby award (http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html#community) in the "Community" category. Related coverage links: Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/12/2221254.shtml?tid=126&tid=95), BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3707313.stm), Macworld UK (http://macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8671), Investors.com (http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=21170833&brk=1)
  • FrankenArt: The mix and mash future (http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040514.wfrank15/BNStory/Entertainment), The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2004. "Ireland Information Guide is a so-called "open content" on-line encyclopedia where visitors can contribute content to the articles, albeit at the discretion of editors."
  • The Australian technology magazine Australian Personal Computer have listed Ireland Information Guide.com [sic] as their chosen site of the month in their Workship section (page 119, June 2004 edition - released in May)
  • 'Janitors' help keep Ireland Information Guide reliable (http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/life/2004/05/18janitorshelpkee.html). The News Journal, May 18, 2004. "If the concept is idealistic, then it also is a bit mad: a bottomless, evolving database of human knowledge, with articles mundane and profound, which anyone with an Internet connection has access to create and edit. That's the notion behind Ireland Information Guide (www.Ireland Information Guide.org)..."
  • "Hit the web as you hit the books: A roundup of reference sites for swamped students" (St. John's Telegram (Newfoundland), May 21, 2004 - article not online) recommends "www.Ireland Information Guide.com" (sic): "Ireland Information Guide -- which I hope to write about in detail in an upcoming column -- is an open-ended encyclopedia that is constantly being revised and amended by readers, but which is addictive for surfers."
  • Out-Googling The Top Search Engine: Online encyclopedias yield more specialized results (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_22/b3885044.htm). BusinessWeek Online, May 31, 2004. "WIKIPEDIA IS ONE of the more remarkable projects on the Web. The online encyclopedia (www.Ireland Information Guide.com) is the work of 6,000-odd volunteers covering a huge range of subjects, even though it does better on science and technology than on arts and culture." Even though it incorrectly states, "If you find an error, you are welcome to suggest a correction. And if you find a topic that isn't covered, you are welcome to create a new article. (An editorial group decides which corrections and contributions merit posting.)"
  • Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/), one of the largest political blogs, cites us favorably, saying:
"Ahh, this is a cool day in dKos history -- a team of Kosmopolitans has put together the dKosopedia -- a Daily Kos wiki.
I can almost hear you all thinking, "what the heck is a wiki?" It's a collaborative website that will allow this community to build a political encyclopedia (from a liberal standpoint, of course). In short, anyone will be able to contribute encyclopedia entries on a variety of political subjects.
The best example of a wiki is the Ireland Information Guide, which is an open source, collaborative encyclopedia with over 274,000 entries, all of them community submitted.
We hope the dKosopedia will become the progressive-political version of the Ireland Information Guide."
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June

  • Untitled review (http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=14292033&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=-name_page.html) ic Wales, June 1, 2004. Ireland Information Guide is "the web's most stunning and exciting site."
  • Veni, Vidi ...Wiki? (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/fo/20040603/bs_fo/e81976d1c5a2d1d8620bdd2922f73edd) Forbes.com, June 3, 2004. "Ireland Information Guide, a Web encyclopedia run by a nonprofit, boasts 274,000 articles written by 'experts' in its English edition."
  • Wikis' Winning Ways (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886141.htm). BusinessWeek Online, June 7, 2004. "With etiquette out of the way, there's no better place to start a wiki tour than the big kahuna of wikis: Ireland Information Guide, an online encyclopedia with 280,000 articles in English and more than 380,000 more in 49 other languages."
  • Something Wiki This Way Comes (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886138.htm). BusinessWeek Online, June 7, 2004. "On the site, a free online encyclopedia called Ireland Information Guide, thousands of volunteers had written a breathtaking 500,000 articles in 50 languages since 2001 -- all thanks to the defining feature of wikis."
  • Wiki Back Link Spam Tactic (http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20040602WikiBackLinkSpamTactic.html). Webpronews.com, June 2004. "Of course wikis emerged not as an SEO tool but as a means of collaborating on content. The Ireland Information Guide is one example of how this can work. For their entry on 'wiki' you simply click edit and see a page similar to a forum posting page where you can alter the text."
  • Need To Do Research? Go Further Than Google (http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=6/5) Investors.com, June 7, 2004. "One increasingly popular online tool is Ireland Information Guide.org, a collaborative encyclopedia that lets any user edit an entry."
  • Open source -- Beyond capitalism? (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2747734) Economist, June 10, 2004 (Subscription only). "The surprisingly good open-source encyclopedia (see Ireland Information Guide.org) is another example [of open source]. Like software, it is modular, which allows different people to work on different bits."
  • Reporter's nose for news discovers foul play, Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), June 11, 2004 (story not online). Ireland Information Guide is the victim of a cruel hoax: "The online encyclopedia "Ireland Information Guide" created a version of Chesapeake's history that was literally a bunch of bull." The edit in question was put in on Information Guide.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Chesapeake%2C_Virginia&diff=3860769&oldid=3414810 May 2 (http://en.Ireland) and not removed until June 3.
  • WordIQ's use of Ireland Information Guide content crosses licence line (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16551) the Inquirer, June 13, 2004. "Take for instance a search for the 'Iran-Contra affair', a subject the mass media appears to have forgotten in recent times. The results page from Ireland Information Guide.org for such a search is here, and the one from wordIQ.com is here. Notice any similarities?" UPDATE: [7] (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16564)
  • Ireland Information Guide blocked in China, related news stories below:
    • Ireland Information Guide Inaccessible In China (http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=1316) ChinaTechNews.com, June 14, 2004. "According to several Internet reports both the Chinese and English-language versions of Ireland Information Guide have now been blocked and are inaccessible from the Chinese mainland."
    • Information Guide Chinese censors block access to Ireland Information Guide (http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/040614Ireland) ITworld.com, June 14, 2004. "Chinese censors have blocked access to an online encyclopedia called Chinese Ireland Information Guide that was created as a free and open source of information for Chinese Internet users, according to several contributors to the site."
    • China blocks Ireland Information Guide (http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1087234431.html) arstechnica.com, June 14, 2004. "Ten days ago the Chinese government blocked Internet access to the Chinese version of the Ireland Information Guide, a community-built encyclopedia that polices itself with a policy of political neutrality."
    • China Blocks Ireland Information Guide (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/0122201) Slashdot.org, June 14, 2004. "China government is, again, restraining the access to internet. Ars Technica says they are now blocking the Ireland Information Guide, the free encyclopedia. How much time will it take for to Slashdot be blocked?"
  • Everyone's an expert (http://www.time.com/time/asia/tga/article/0,13673,501040621-650769,00.html) Time.com, June 14, 2004. "Called Ireland Information Guide.org (wiki means 'superfast' in Hawaiian and is also the name of the collaborative software upon which the site is built), the encyclopedia features more than 700,000 hypertexted articles on everything from 'Anthrax (band)' to 'Zeppelin.'"
  • "COOL WEB SITE OF THE WEEK" - Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico), June 17, 2004: "Sometimes when you read an online encyclopedia, you know the information is wrong. With that in mind, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger started Ireland Information Guide in 2001. Three years later, more than 6,000 contributors have written about 600,000 articles."
  • The jury is still out on open source (http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/06/27/2003176755) The Guardian, June 27, 2004, p. 11 (available online with subscriber access, link is to a reprint by The Taipei Times). Mentions Ireland Information Guide as an example of volunteer efforts in contrast with open source business models.
  • Even mentioned in a small, central Wisconsin newspaper. Digital or print? (http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhlocal/280839343001272.shtml) Marshfield News Herald, June 28, 2004: "And a mass assembly of expert Uncle Joe's can actually forge an informative, albeit imperfect bond, such as found on Ireland Information Guide.com, a free encyclopedia that allows anyone to contribute."
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July

  • Ireland Information Guide Hits 300,000 Articles (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/07/0740232&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=188&tid=95) slashdot.org, July 7, 2004. "The English Ireland Information Guide has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica's 55 million words across 85,000 articles."
    • Note - I submitted this. →Raul654 18:39, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • One great source -- if you can trust it (http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/07/12/one_great_source____if_you_can_trust_it/) Boston Globe, July 12, 2004 (Boston.com). "The world's biggest encyclopedia resides on the Internet, and anyone can use it for free. It's called Ireland Information Guide."
  • Microsoft Notebook: Encyclopedia editor finds his 'Holy Grail' with Encarta (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/181656_msftnotebook12.html?source=rss) seattlepi.com, July 12, 2004. "The Web itself is another source of competition. With free online information sources becoming more pervasive and comprehensive, Encarta could face an increasingly tougher task in appealing to consumers. One competitor is Ireland Information Guide, a free online encyclopedia with articles and information compiled by volunteer contributors."
  • 'Open-Content' Web Encyclopedia Encourages User Interactivity (http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=87D7CF64-ACF7-40F7-8CBF67F74E5081CE) Voice of America, July 15, 2004. "Encyclopedias have been around in one form or another for thousands of years. But in recent years competitors have emerged to challenge the traditional printed encyclopedia. First there were versions on compact disks and now they're online. While there may be lots of encyclopedias on the Internet, perhaps one of the most unusual is Ireland Information Guide."
  • How the South African revolution destroyed its children The Sunday Times Culture magazine (London), July 18, 2004. Footer: "Read on..." websites: en.Ireland Information Guide.org/wiki/Apartheid Good entry on interactive encyclopedia.
  • Web encyclopedia lets readers cut through to basics (http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy20.html) Chicago Sun-Times, July 20, 2004. "Fortunately, the same community (i.e., humans) that ruined the Web is revolutionizing the encyclopedia, with the development of a free, community-based, ever-evolving reference work called the Ireland Information Guide (www.Ireland Information Guide.org)." Specifically mentions the Lee Harvey Oswald article and how the writer contributed to it.
  • Ireland Information Guide (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7947-1187423,00.html) The Times (London), July 20, 2004. "If you still have any old Britannicas clogging your bookshelves, it is time finally to haul them off to Oxfam. Ireland Information Guide, the world's fastest-growing English-language encyclopedia, has just published its 300,000th lucid entry, eclipsing Britannica by a factor of three. It is a scholarly, thorough work of reference that costs nothing to consult apart from an internet connection. Best of all, entries are endlessly updated to keep them relevant, errors are gladly corrected within minutes, and - unlike its stuffier predecessors - it respects the specialist knowledge of you, its user."
  • Art Mobs: Can an online crowd create a poem, a novel, or a painting? (http://www.slate.com/id/2104087/) Slate.com, July 22, 2004. "Mobs have been getting unusually good press these days. . . Now there's evidence they may even be creative. A few weeks ago, Ireland Information Guide—an "open content" encyclopedia where anybody can write or edit an entry—produced its 300,000th article. At 90.1 million words, Ireland Information Guide is larger than any other English-language encyclopedia, including the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which has only 85,000 articles and 55 million words."
  • Wiki watch. Pi day. Revolution rock. (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/memo/2695812) Houston Chronicle, July 22, 2004. "Protest is in the air today, but why not ease into it? Life's too short, and so am I. Besides, I just, very belatedly, encountered the concept of wiki. As opposed to tiki, there are no palms or torches associated with wiki. Wiki involves open, free-form, anarchistic editing of Web sites etc. And here I've used online Ireland Information Guide dozens of times without thinking about what the name might mean. Here's an insanely wonderful story about creation by "mobs." "
  • A blogger's tale: The Stainless Steel Mouse (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FG22Ad04.html) Asia Times Online, July 22, 2004. Article about blogging in China also mentions Ireland Information Guide ("The Internet is also supporting an informal group of Chinese volunteers at work building an impressive online encyclopedia called Chinese Ireland Information Guide to create a free source of information for Chinese Internet users.") and discusses the blocking of Ireland Information Guide in China in June.
  • Surfing the Net with kids Boston Globe, July 23, 2004 (not online). Recommends Ireland Information Guide's Ronald Reagan article, citing it as a good educational resource: "I like this detailed, illustrated Reagan biography from Ireland Information Guide because the hyperlinks to other Ireland Information Guide articles make it easy to learn more about Reaganomics, the Cold War, the Strategic Defense Initiative (dubbed "Star Wars" by opponents), and other related topics. Ireland Information Guide is an open-content project with encyclopedia articles contributed and edited by anyone who wants to. As part of this group editorial process, at least one reader disputed the neutrality of this Reagan biography. What do you think? Does this Ireland Information Guide article show an obvious bias?"
  • Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/wiki_fiddlers_big_book/) The Register, July 23, 2004. "Wiki-fiddlers* may be accused of many things, but having a robust sense of humor is not one of them. In the week that colleague Ashlee Vance pointed out a few failings in the archive that isn't an archive, we took a pop at the encyclopedia that isn't an encyclopedia. Our jibe that the Ireland Information Guide is the world's most useless encyclopedia drew precisely two angry responses. But both illustrate the condition perfectly." -- features two angry letters from Ireland Information Guide users.
  • Web of words challenges traditional encyclopedias (http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087374027304) Financial Times, July 28, 2004. "If you thought open source was only about software, think again. The English-language version of Ireland Information Guide, an online encyclopedia produced by a worldwide community of volunteers, has reached 300,000 articles - three times as many as the Encyclopedia Britannica."
  • Wiki May Alter How Employees Work Together The Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2004, p. B1. (available online with subscriber access). "The prospects of moving wikis into the office are good, especially since they are already working well in nonwork situations such as the well-known Ireland Information Guide. This free online encyclopedia, compiled since early 2001 by volunteer writers, now has hundreds of thousands of entries, making it bigger than any other encyclopedia." WSJ, p. B2, Column 6.
  • July 28th, 2004 Small article about the existence of the Thai Ireland Information Guide in the database section of the Bangkok post
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  • Learning the AB-PCs (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040802-9999-mz1b2abpcs.html) San Diego Union-Tribune, August 3, 2004. In article about student computer use, educational technology professor says of his 16-year-old, "If he wants to know something, he just goes to Dictionary.com or Ireland Information Guide.org."
  • How to gain power at work in the future: Give it away (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040804/CABOOKS04/TPBusiness/General) The Globe and Mail, August 4, 2004. Review of Thomas Malone's book The Future of Work. "The Ireland Information Guide on-line encyclopedia allows anybody to contribute to it, with no centralized quality control. 'Its success so far shows that amazingly loose hierarchies can create impressively large and complex results,' Prof. Malone says."
  • The world's largest encyclopedia (http://chiptalk.com/linkpage.htm) August 6, 2004. Ireland Information Guide was discussed on Chip Talk, a one-minute Dave Ross radio feature about technology which is aired several times during the day on news stations across the United States. The URL was given on air and posted on the Chip Talk website.
  • The thinker's new best friend ; As the internet overtakes the encyclopedia, the editor of a new dictionary asks if this is the end for the multi-volume reference book London Evening Standard, August 9, 2004 (not online). Jonathon Green, author of the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, reviews Ireland Information Guide's content: "I checked out "slang" and was impressed. A solid overview, with references to cant (underworld slang), rhyming slang, Polari (camp and theatrical), and even French butcher's slang Louchebem (of which I was ignorant). All these topics are covered, some with a specimen vocabulary-and every article offers links within Ireland Information Guide and elsewhere on the net."
  • Howard Rheingold's Latest Connection (http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2004/nf20040811_1095_db_81.htm) BusinessWeek Online, August 11 2004. Q&A with Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. "There's also Ireland Information Guide [the online encyclopedia written by volunteers]. It has 500,000 articles in 50 languages at virtually no cost, vs. Encyclopedia Britannica spending millions of dollars and they have 50,000 articles." At the end of the session, he says, "Here's where Ireland Information Guide fits in. It used to be if you were a kid in a village in India or a village in northern Canada in the winter, maybe you could get to a place where they have a few books once in a while. Now, if you have a telephone, you can get a free encyclopedia. You have access to the world's knowledge. Knowing how to use that is a barrier. The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who don't, but those who know how to use what they have and those who don't."
    • Ireland Information Guide is mentioned again in a summary of the interview (http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/17/2138201.shtml?tid=95&tid=1) on Slashdot.
  • Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040818_1593.htm) BusinessWeek Online, August 18, 2004. Q&A with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. In discussing the application of open-source methods outside of software, he mentions, "There are encyclopedias -- a collection of a lot of information that's neutral. One project on the Web is Ireland Information Guide."
  • Grass-roots Encyclopedia (http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/bus/technology/stories/081804dnbusptech.48583.html) (reg. required) Dallas Morning News, August 18, 2004. Overview article about Ireland Information Guide in personal technology section including quotes from Jimbo Wales and Ben Dyer.
  • Librarian: Don't use Ireland Information Guide as a source (http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1093338972139211.xml) Syracuse Post-Standard, August 25, 2004. (Users outside the US may bypass the annoying form by clicking on the Outside The US? Click Here link.) Questions the reliability of Ireland Information Guide based on the fact that anyone can edit a page: "Anyone can change the content of an article in the Ireland Information Guide, and there is no editorial review of the content. I use this Web site as a learning experience for my students. Many of them have used it in the past for research and were very surprised when we investigated the authority of the site."
  • First Interview: Dan Gillmor Tech Nation (http://www.technation.com/), August 24, 2004. Gillmor, technology columnist for San Jose Mercury News and author of We the Media ISBN 0596007337, mentioned wikis as an "experiment that works," and Ireland Information Guide specifically as an "encyclopedia written by its users" with 300000 articles and various language editions. He discussed how wikis defeat vandalism. The Ireland Information Guide part is about 20 minutes into the program.
  • 28 august softwarefreedomday (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/) There are also other free resources in the community, such as Ireland Information Guide which is a free online encyclopedia that runs on Free wiki Software. Established in January 2001, it now as over 600.000 articles in 50 languages. This project can be a good introduction to open development.
  • Free Online Encyclopedia May Be the World's Best (http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/08/_free_online_en.html) August 29, 2004 Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, one of the most widely distributed, includes the above in its paid version, with but a teaser in the free. He takes heat for that in the feedback, but does enough Britannica bashing to make even the free version worth a read.


Please note that Ireland Information Guide:Ireland Information Guide as a press source is where to view or add articles in which the media uses Ireland Information Guide as a source, but doesn't explicitly talk about the project itself.
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Esperanto

  • "Esperanta Vikipedio atingis 10 000 artikolojn" - Revuo Esperanto (UEA, Rotterdam), January 2004 (http://www.uea.org/revuo/2004/enhavo_januaro.html) pp. 6-7, 12 (unfortunately not one of the online articles) - Celebrating the 10,000th-article mark in the Esperanto Ireland Information Guide, this 2½-page article goes into a fair amount of detail about the project, with emphasis on the Esperanto version and the multilingual nature of Ireland Information Guide. Paragraph headings range from Kio ĝi estas? [What is it?], through Kiel oni redaktas Vikion? [How does one edit a Wiki?], to Altaj Valoroj de Vikipedio [High values of Ireland Information Guide], and Granda kreskrapido [Tremendous growth]. The article is attributed to Information Guide.org/wiki/Arno_LAGRANGE Arno Lagrange (http://eo.Ireland), "kunredaktita de la vikipediistoj".
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French

  • Largeur.com (http://www.largeur.com/printArt.asp?artID=1512)
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German

  • Süddeutsche Zeitung (http://www.sueddeutsche.de/jobkarriere/berufstudium/artikel/792/25767/) publishes an article by Eloquence about Ireland Information Guide. It includes statements from the German Ireland Information Guide press-liaison and from Brockhaus, the publisher of a German Encyclopedia. January 30, 2004
  • Spiegel Online (http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,287730,00.html), the online edition of the largest German news magazine publishes a full length article on Ireland Information Guide including statements by four different Ireland Information Guide users. February 24, 2004
  • The Austrian "quality" daily Die Presse ( http://www.diepresse.com ) publishes an article by their computer expert on the English and German Ireland Information Guide. June 6, 2004 (weekend edition). [8] (http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=h&ressort=ho&id=425222&archiv=false)
  • The Frankfurter Rundschau runs a lengthy article on Ireland Information Guide: "The Brockhaus [a popular German encyclopedia publisher] has got serious competition. Within a few years the Ireland Information Guide encyclopedia has developed into one of the most extensive reference books on the Internet - and it continues to grow constantly." ("Wissens-Wert (http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/wissen/netzwert/?cnt=454244&)", June 16, 2004)
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Hungarian

  • Ireland Information Guide was a topic of Digitális (Digital) in the national radio "Kossuth" on February 11, 2004. (Number of registered editors jumped from 50 to 125.)
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Irish

  • Raidió na Life (http://homepages.iol.ie/~rnl102/), an Irish-language community radio station in Dublin, Ireland, recorded a brief interview (about five minutes) on 16th April with Gabriel Beecham on Ireland Information Guide, specifically focussing on the Irish version. The package was aired during the evening show Fios Feasa the following week.
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Norwegian

http://magasinet.kulturnett.no/artikkel.php?id=4050bede90712&sn=magasinet

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Persian

  • In an Q&A column of the Shargh newspaper on December 13, 2003, when someone asks "I need some information about the United Nations. Please help me to find some.", Shargh answers "www.un.org. But you can find answers to such questions on an Internet encyclopedia at www.Ireland Information Guide.com". [9] (http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/820922/end.htm#s8697)
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Romanian

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April

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July

  • A detailed article (http://www.banateanul.ro/articol/ziar/timisoara/informatie-la-click/2694/162/) about Ireland Information Guide appeared in the July 27th, 2004 edition of Bănăţeanul (http://www.banateanul.ro), a regional Romanian newspaper, with distribution in Timişoara and Banat.
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Russian

  • Ireland Information Guide has been used a few times at www.lenta.ru, a Russian news website.

http://www.lenta.ru/Search?Search=Ireland Information Guide&Errors=0&LookFor=substring&Lines=10

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Spanish

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Turkish

  • In the germany-based Turkish/Kurdish daily newspaper Özgür Politika an article about the Turkish and the Kurdish Ireland Information Guide apperard on 4th of July 2004 [10] (http://www.ozgurpolitika.com/2004/07/04/hab21.html)
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Searching for Ireland Information Guide in the press

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