Wikipedia:Wikipedia on TV and radio

2007-03-27 NPR station WUSF, in Tampa, Florida, aired a story about Wikipedia, issues regarding its accuracy, and the new Citizendium project. Featured interviews by Larry Sanger, Mike Halterman, and Kat Walsh. Articles mentioned by name in the segment include "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should," Ronda Storms, Sinbad, "Believe" and Cher.
2007-03-23 The BBC Radio 4 satirical comedy show The Now Show acknowledged the use of Wikipedia as the source for the origin of the name O'Hare for O'Hare International Airport, during a satirical sketch on people who have had airports named after them.
2007-03-22 On the American news program NBC Nightly News, correspondent Lisa Daniels reported on a story entitled "Fact Check" about the sometimes dubious facts on Wikipedia and how they affected the class of a history professor at Middlebury College in Vermont. The same professor was interviewed for a February NPR story mentioned below.
2007-02-27 CNN The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (John King guest-hosting) featured a two to three minute interview with their Internet Reporter Jacki Schechner concentrating on the 2008 United States Presidential Candidates and their articles on Wikipedia. John King: "Wikipedia, it's the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. But, as the Internet's influence on political campaigns grows, what role will the popular Web site play in deciding the next president?" Jacki Schechner: "Well, John, let's say you want to learn more about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his possible bid for the White House. You type his name into the search engine Google, and the first thing that comes up is his Wikipedia entry. The second thing is his official exploratory committee Web site." transcript

2007-02-26, WHYY-FM First broadcast 26 February 2007 11:00 am UTC-5, Podcast. "Why one of the internet's most popular internet encyclopedias is also considered unreliable. We'll talk with NEIL WATERS a professor at Middlebury College, who discovered an obscure but incorrect fact on his students' exams. It turns out they all got it from the same source Wikipedia. Then we'll hear from VIBIANA BOWMAN a librarian at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey about how Wikipedia and the internet in general is changing how we get information and we must adopt new standards for vetting it. Bowman is also author of The Plagiarism Plague in which she argues that the internet has made plagiarism an even bigger problem."

2007-02-18 : Fox animated cartoon American Dad!'s character Stan is looking for a place where you can make any outrageous claim you want with absolutely no proof and millions of people would accept it as fact . The next shot shows Stan's son Steve editing The Truth About Peanut Butter's wikipedia entry.

2007-01-30: Live! With Regis and Kelly featured the Qat disambiguation page. Guest cohost Pat Sajak referred to Qat in a discussion about Scrabble. Producer Michael Gelman then handed Sajak a laptop with the page and host Kelly Ripa read the definitions.

2007-01-12 : French private channel TF1 early evening news report aired a reportage about Wikipedia. Florence Nibart-Devouard was interviewed, as was a french editor. The Nature report on Wikipedia reliability was mentioned.

[edit] 2006

2006-12-10 (perhaps earlier): In a Cisco Systems commercial aired in the United States includes a brief shot of a child using a laptop to read a Wikipedia article.
2006-12-10: In the United States, CBS Sunday Morning aired a featured story on Wikipedia reported on by Serena Altschul. Footage from Wikimania 2006 was shown, as were interviews of Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger and a representative from Encyclopædia Britannica.
2006-12-05: On BBC One in the herecomeseverybody.co.uk episode of Imagine hosted by Alan Yentob, Wikipedia as a project was discussed in the context of the one millionth article in English. Alan Yentob interviewed Wikipedian Ewan MacDonald (Nach0king; the original writer of the Jordanhill railway station article) on the station platform.
2006-11-02: On NPR's weekly news quiz program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Jimmy Wales participated in the "Not My Job" segment.
2006-10-26: On CNN International's monthly "Global Office" programme, Jimmy Wales spoke about Wikipedia in the programme's feature about Open Source software (free software was not mentioned and neither was Richard Stallman).
2006-10-13: On CBC's The Hour, interviewing Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in China. [1]
2006-10-09:On Media Watch a West Australian community newspaper journalist from the Wanneroo Times, Tom Winterbourn is accused of plagiarism of the Mitchell Freeway Wikipedia article .[2]
2006-10-04: On PBS's Charlie Rose, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is interviewed during the second half of the show.
2006-09-12: On Nightline "Wikipedia: Getting to Truth by 'Community'. Online Encyclopedia Founder Says Despite Criticism, Project is Working." [3] Video
2006-09-11: On Morning Edition "Wikipedia is the ever-evolving work of hundreds-of-thousands of volunteer writers and editors who range from high school students to academic scholars. This leaves the online encyclopedia open to criticism and ridicule. That doesn't seem to stop people from using the site as a source for knowledge." [4]
2006-08-25: On Radio Concierto in Chile, a humor segment called "Super Mandolino" aired, parodying Wikipedia in the form of an old wise Mapuche mentor of the main character, Aucan Wikiman.org. [5]
2006-08-28: On The Stephanie Miller Show, a caller called in to comment on "voice monkey" Jim Ward's useage of a Somerset accent in a skit he had done on the show the previous week. The caller commented that he had thought that the accent sounded like a pirate, so he went to Wikipedia and confirmed his suspicions. Apparently a reference to the article at West Country dialects.
2006-08-21: Mastermind, a television quiz show on BBC2, featured this question in its general knowledge round: "Which internet encyclopedia was founded by Jimmy Wales in 2001?" The contestant (who won that show) gave the correct answer: "Wikipedia."
2006-08-04: The Now Show: On a joke on coursework, they were saying that it is easy to find coursework that has been copied for Wikipedia because all the nouns are covered in blue (all the nouns are linked). an audio clip
2006-08-02: On Point interviews Jimmy Wales in "Wikipedia: Open Intelligence".
2006-07-31: On the July 31, 2006, Stephen Colbert discusses Wikipedia on The Colbert Report, urging people to insert a false statement into the article on elephants. This causes a spike of Wikipedia activity and protection of the article on elephants.
2006-07-27: Reporter Vince DeMentri of WCAU Philadelphia discusses the accuracy of Wikipedia. As an example he vandalizes his own Wikipedia article, adding that he has 27 children.[6]
2006-07-08: The Philosopher's Zone on ABC Radio National: Interview with Jaron Lanier about his essay "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" and his views on Wikipedia.[7]
2006-06-22: Primetime Morning Show on Channel NewsAsia: Angela Beesley answered general questions about Wikipedia's growth and how vandalism is dealt with.
2006-06-21: Asia Squawk Box on CNBC Asia with Lisa Oake - Angela Beesley discussed semi-protection and other issues.
2006-06-19: MSNBC's The Most with Alison Stewart discussed how accurate Wikipedia was, protected pages and past controversies.
2006-05-11: Radio Prague, the international broadcasting of Český rozhlas, presented an interview with Petr Kadlec (User:Mormegil) about Wikipedia. [8]
2006-05-10: On the May 10, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), Stephen Colbert talks about his research about Sigmund Freud during "The Wørd" segment. He mentions that he read the entire Wikipedia article, and the sidescreen shows a response: "Even the accurate parts."
2006-04-17 In the UK, Five's The Gadget Show had a feature reviewing Wikipedia and the history of the Wiki, as well as featuring the pros and cons of Wikipedia and comparison between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica. However, since the feature went on air, The Gadget Show article on Wikipedia, despite the plea of the show's presenter, Jason Bradbury to treat Wikipedia with respect, has been repeatedly vandalised. [9]
2006-03-01: On the The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), Arianna Huffington challenged Stephen Colbert on his claim that he had invented the word truthiness. During the interview, Colbert declared, “I’m not a truthiness fanatic; I’m truthiness’s father.” Huffington corrected him, citing Wikipedia, that he had merely “popularized” the term. Of her source, Colbert responded: “Fuck them.”
2006-02-08: Filip Maljkovic and Dragan Sataric of Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro talked in the radio show Dekoder, aired on one of the most popular radio stations, Idea.
2006-02-01: Wikipedia featured on NPR regarding the congressional edits, on the Digital Culture section with Andrea Seabrook and Alex Chadwick. [10]
2006-01-24: Jovana Milicevic and Goran Obradovic of Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro talked in the television show Mozaik, aired on the third highest ranked national channel.
2006-01-18: Nicholas Moreau (user:zanimum) appeared on CP24 program Home Page with David Onley, this afternoon at 5:00 PM EST. The show is also simulcast across Canada on CLT.
2006-01-05: BBC Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce and traffic reporter Lynn Bowles referred to their own and other entries on Wikipedia. Following the discussion, the latter's entry, then a mis-titled stub, was corrected and expanded within minutes.

[edit] 2005

2005-12-23: WNYC's On the Media references Flying Spaghetti Monster as source on the meaning of the acronym FSM in a letter from a listener. [11]
2005-12-21: Anna Maria Tremonti does segment on CBC Radio One's The Current morning show. Interview with a Britannica Vice-President and Jimbo Wales. [12].
2005-12-18: B92 news: Vikipedija je pouzdana [story about Nature's review of Wikipedia]
2005-12-15: NPR interview with Nature on "Assessing Wikipedia's Accuracy"[13]
2005-12-12: BBC Radio Four PM programme: Interview with John Seigenthaler Sr.
2005-12-08: BBC Radio Four PM programme: Interview with User:David Gerard
2006-12-06: NPR interview with John Seigenthaler Sr. and Jimbo Wales [14]
2005-12-05: CNN interview with John Seigenthaler Sr. and Jimbo Wales [15]
2005-11-16 (Los Angeles, USA): KCET broadcasts the Newshour with Jim Lehrer which has a segment on "We Media" which includes a section on WikiNews, with an interview with Jimbo.[16]
2005-11-17 (Canada): G4Techtv program Call for Help interviews Nicholas "user:zanimum" Moreau on Wikipedia in general. Episode 282 was filmed October 12, 2005.
2005-09-25: Jimmy Wales interviewed on C-SPAN. (info, transcript).
2005-09-01: BBC Radio Five Live, Dr. Karl's weekly phone-in. Brief discussion on the pros and cons of Wikipedia, focussing on: reversion of vandalism, and anti-elitism. Specific mention of the quality of our article on the British Peerage, a great deal of which was written by a 16-year-old from America (User:Lord Emsworth).
2005-08-30: KASA-TV's Tech on 2 segment. The reporter/producer interviewed Wikipedian Oddtoddnm and gave a brief, basic overview of Wikipedia and compared it to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
2005-08-07: BBC Radio 4, A Good Read. While discussing the Oxford English Dictionary, whose editors asked members of the public to send in words with their definitions and quotations, it is remarked that this is rather like Wikipedia. You can listen to the program at [17] for a week.
2005 (early August): Wikipedia earns place as Juneau, Alaska radio station KINY's "Bonus Website" What's New
2005-07-21: PBS's Nightly Business Report Tech-Talk segment on Workin It With Wikipedia. "...a fascinating example of collaborative development and social interaction growing live, virtually before your eyes on the Internet." transcript
2005-07-08: NPR's On The Media includes a segment discussing Wikipedia's coverage of the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
2005-07-20: Washington Journal on C-SPAN, Crispin Sartwell discusses. Sartwell and the host discuss how Wikipedia works, primarily how anyone can edit anything, describing it as antiauthoritarian. Google Video
2005-06-22: Studio B With Shepard Smith on the Fox News Channel, segment L.A. Times pulls web editorials written by readers. Smith refers to "the Wikipedia" with a graphic of the main page, showing the Wikimania banner. Wikipedia name close-captioned as "wikipeddia"
2005-06-22: Fox News Live on the Fox News Channel, segment L.A. Times cancels editorial experiment after 2 days. "In internet jargon it means on-line communities that encourage you to write collectively and edit editorials. Wikipedia can rewrite entries free of charge. The "L.A. Times" was hoping to create something similar." Multilingual main page shown. Google Video
2005-06-21: BBC Paper's 'wikitorial' trial halted, refers to Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales.
2005-06-20: Inside Politics on CNN mentioned "Wiki-Pedia" (close caption) during discussion of LA Times editorials in the Inside the Blogs segment. Google Video
2005-06-20: BBC quiz show University Challenge: The Professionals featured the following question, the answer to which is "Wikipedia": "A pin-up for a growing movement that sees the internet as a true citizens' medium" is one view of which online reference resource founded in 2000 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, with a name derived in part from an hawaiian word meaning "quick"? After neither team, representing the Institute of Masters of Wine and BBC Radio 4's Today programme, could provide the correct answer, host Jeremy Paxman said: "I recommend it to you if you don't use it". The quotation in the question (not credited in the programme) comes from Simon Waldman writing in The Guardian, 26 October 2004.
2005-06-02: Washington Journal on C-SPAN, caller uses Wikipedia information to contest claim made by either a host or guest, in a segment relating to the US House of Representatives. Google Video
2005-04-29: CNN Live Today on CNN, mentions our Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy article. Google Video
2005-04-19: Jeff Jarvis appears on the MSNBC cable news channel in the U.S. Jarvis discusses weblogs' reactions to the election of Pope Benedict XVI, and mentions Wikipedia's coverage of the election. The Wikipedia main page was shown on screen. See the article at Jarvis' blog [18], and at MSNBC [19].
2005-03-31: KRON 4 Morning News Recommended checking the site out, referred to it both as wikipedia.com and .org.
2005-03-29: Angela Beesley spoke about Wikipedia in relation to Knowledge Management as part of the "Nice Work" show on BBC Radio 4. [20]
2005-02-20: Wikipedia's Growth Comes with Concerns - a National Public Radio story discussing the growth of wikipedia and the question about its accuracy.

[edit] 2004

2004-12-11 17:30+02:00: Episode 4 of the television program go_open [21], which is shown on the South African channel SABC 2, had 3 short mentions of Wikipedia. The program dealt primarily with Creative Commons and featured an interview with Lawrence Lessig. It also had a short introduction to GIMP by Mark Shuttleworth, and segments on a local ISP using SpamAssassin and general user computer security tips. It then had short mentions of openphoto.net and Wikipedia. Transcript of the 3 mentions of Wikipedia: Segueing from a discussion of openphoto.net, [on screen: The cross section eye diagram from the Eye article.] "and if you want to find out about how the eye actually works, [on screen: The "Search results" page.] get en.wikipedia.org in your sight. Wikipedia [on screen: Language links on the Main Page with 1000+ (note that Afrikaans is one of the most common languages in South Africa) and 100+ articles.] is a free content encyclopedia in many languages. Wikipedia's content [on screen: Cheche.JPG in the article and scrolling down to Eye.png (which was removed on 2004-10-23t10:46z).] is created by it's users, and its pages are always subject to editing, [on screen: "Eye" article's heading, and panning down to the "[edit]" link below the cross section diagram.] so no article is ever finished [on screen: "Editing Eye (section)" page.]. Now that's [on screen: The top of the Main page] a far cry from having to pay for your encyclopedia, isn't it? [...] Lastly en.wikipedia.org [on screen: Main Page, and the URI as a graphic at the bottom of the screen.] lets you expand your knowledge and everybody else's, for free." John Vlismas, stand-up comedian and program presenter: "Encyclopædia Britannica, a third of the size, very expensive. Wikipedia, three times the size and growing, absolutely free." Bittorrent of episodes 1 to 6.
4 December 2004: An interview with Jimmy Wales airs on The Buzz, a popular science program on Australian Radio National. After a brief introduction to Wikipedia, the focus of the interview is Wikinews. [22]
17 November 2004: Angela discusses Wikipedia on the You and Yours programmme on BBC Radio 4. You can listen to it at [23] but you might need some sort of plugins.
9 October 2004: Andrew Lih was also briefly interviewed on New Zealand's National Radio. He explained the concepts behind Wikipedia and NPOV. He also spoke about Wikipedia 1.0 and the difficulties in capturing a snapshot of an ever evolving encyclopedia.
4 October 2004: Andrew Lih was interviewed for BBC's Go Digital program which was webcast. [24]
6 August 2004: Featured on Chip Talk, a one-minute radio program on computer software, hardware, and the Web, produced at Seattle, Washington's KIRO-AM radio, and distributed to member stations of the Associated Press Radio Network. The segment was called "The world's largest encyclopedia." Wikipedia was described as "one of the few examples of online services where people who don't even know each other have come together to create a successful product," and as a comprehensive reference in which you can read about Mars the planet, the god, and even the candy bar. A link to Wikipedia is provided from the Chip Talk home page.
August 4, 2004 - featured on National Public Radio's program Day to Day in a segment called The Web Browser: Silly Names for Serious Sites.
July 6th, 2004: YleX, a Finnish language national radio channel in Finland, recorded an interview with Timo Jyrinki. It was used as a part of "YleX Tänään" (YleX Today) -program the same day. The interview considered e.g. trusthworthiness and scope of Finnish and other Wikipedias. Paper encyclopedias were described as "old-fashioned" in comparison. In the relatively short interview, many main aspects of Wikipedia were introduced to the listeners - anyone can edit, anyone can fix if there are miswritings, freedom (fortunately, we have a separate word for libre) and the huge success as seen in bigger Wikipedias.
17 April 2004 or 20 April 2004 20:00+01:00 or 21:00+01:00: Raidió na Life, an Irish-language community radio station in Dublin, Ireland, recorded a brief interview (about five minutes) with Gabriel Beecham on Wikipedia, specifically focussing on the Irish version. This interview is to be aired during the evening show Fios Feasa.
March 18, 2004: BBC ClickOnline, a minutes worth of coverage on BBC's ClickOnline show in a discussion about wikis. Video: Real media stream or Windows Media stream. See this note.
- In the discussion, you can see the featured article of the day was Lego. Therefore, it (or at least that part of it) was filmed on March 11.
February 25, 2004: Tagesthemen, the late edition of Germany's primary TV news program aired an approximately three minute feature on Wikipedia. It included general information on the Wiki-principle as well as an interview with two German Wikipedians. However, while not being negative, it concluded with the statement that - in order to achieve the quality of established encyclopedias - much remains to be done. Read English translation by Google, WMV movie (9Mb), An English translation of the transcript, and a screenshot