Wikipedia:Press coverage 2002

Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2002, sorted chronologically.

January

• "Witryna Dnia" [Site of the Day]. PC World Komputer (in Polish). January 6, 2002. Archived from the original on April 21, 2002. Mentions both English and Polish Wikipedias.
• Singer, Michael (January 16, 2002). "Free Encyclopedia Celebrates Year One". internet.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2003.
• "Open Source SEM-Cyclopedia Project Launched". Software Dioxide. January 17, 2002. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. A collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch has been kicked off along the lines of the 'open-source' model. Dubbed Wikipedia, the project started in January 2001 and has already garnered over 19,000 articles. It is now assembling a special section to create a software engineering body of knowledge. Mentions and links to multiple articles.
• "Free Encyclopedia Project". PNNOnline. January 28, 2002. Archived from the original on May 1, 2002. Light editing of a press release.

February

• Lawton, Graham (February 2, 2002). "The great giveaway". New Scientist. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. A year ago, frustrated by the treacle-like progress of Nupedia, Sanger started another encyclopedia named Wikipedia (the name is taken from open source Web software called WikiWiki that allows pages to be edited by anyone on the Web). It's a lot less formal than Nupedia: anyone can write or edit an article on any topic, which probably explains the entries on beer and Star Trek. But it also explains its success. Wikipedia already contains 19,000 articles and is acquiring several thousand more each month. 'People like the idea that knowledge can and should be freely distributed and developed,' says Sanger. Over time, he reckons, thousands of dabblers should gradually fix any errors and fill in any gaps in the articles until Wikipedia evolves into an authoritative encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of entries.
• Malovec, Miroslav [in Esperanto] (February 2002). "Kion nia asocio povas fari en Ia plej prok sima jardek o?" [What can our association do next decade?]. Starto. No. 203. Czech Esperanto Association. pp. 38–39. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021.

March

• Eloquence in Internet (March 1, 2002). "Wikipedia Editor Larry Sanger Resigns". Kuro5hin. Archived from the original on April 30, 2009. Wikipedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia. Articles can be edited by anyone and are under the GNU Free Documentation License. It is a commercial project funded by Bomis.com.

April

• "Chuck Smith pri la virtuala enciklopedio 'Vikipedio'" [Chuck Smith on the virtual encyclopedia "Wikipedia"]. Radio Polonia (in Esperanto). April 27, 2002. Archived from the original on April 28, 2004.

May

• Aase, Sara (May 2, 2002). "The do-it-yourself encyclopedia: Wikipedia's storehouse of knowledge is a group effort". Computer User. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.

September

• Quinn, Mary Ellen (September 15, 2002). "Wikipedia". Booklist. American Library Association.

November

• Smith, Chuck (November 8, 2002). "Vikipedio – Multlingva Reta Enciklopedio" [Wikipedia – A Multilingual Online Encyclopedia]. In Pluhař, Zdeněk [in Esperanto] (ed.). Fakaj Studoj en Esperanto [Specialized Studies in Esperanto] (in Esperanto). Dobřichovice. ISBN 8085853639. OCLC 85058408.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ebbinghouse, Carol (November 2002). "Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright". Searcher. Vol. 10, no. 10. Medford, New Jersey: Information Today. ISSN 1070-4795. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020.