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Paying for Wikipedia Space, Guardian [1]

Microsoft Pays Someone To Correct Wikipedia Entries - So What? Desi Critics [2]

Microsoft's pay-to-edit Wikipedia meddling: Wales not amused, Boing Boing [3]

This Wikipedia entry brought to you by . . ., IT Business Canada [4]

Can Wikipedia handle the truth?, ZDNET, [5]


NoFollow

Wikipedia wants to cut down on link spam with "nofollow", ARS Technica, [6]


China

China Removes Block To English-Language Wikipedia, But Chinese-Language Version Still Blocked, Information Week

[7]


Jimmy Interviews

In Search of an Online Utopia [8]

Interview: Knowledge to the people, New Scientist, [9]

Jimmy Wales Will Destroy Google, 10 Zen Monkeys, [10]


Wikipedia and the Law

545 Law Review Articles Cite Wikipedia TaxProf Blog [11]


Wikipedia and Academia

A Stand Against Wikipedia, Inside Higher Education [12]

Profs question students' Wikipedia dependency, Yale Daily News [13]

Johnson slapped on wrist for recommending Wikipedia [14]


Other

Mainstream media criticizes Wikipedia because it decentralizes their information monopoly, OP Ed News [15]

Hands Off Super Bowl Participants' Wikipedia Entries [16]

YouTube, Wikipedia in Top 5 Brands! Tech Tree [17]

Wikipedia@HarvardBusinessReview.com, Zdnet [18]

Whistle blown on Wiki site for whistle-blowers, Reuters[19]