Interesting PCC ruling that could have future implications for newspapers’ geotagging efforts. Also interesting because the existence of a Wikipedia article is part of the justification for allowing newspapers to report information.

"Powerset has finally rolled out a "natural language" search engine. It’s not a Google killer. It’s barely a business model right now. But at least it’s something the world can finally play with…"

"Wikipedia articles have been added to Google Maps. … Clicking on the ‘W’ tag will open an information window containing the Wikipedia article. Panoramio photos can also be turned on via the same ‘More’ button."

The brilliant Journalisted site from the Media Standards Trust now pulls in Wikipedia bios of journalists and finds their e-mail addresses wherever possible…

"Germany’s Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia."

Martin Belam: "it seems that [Daily Mail columnist Tom Utley] drawing attention to his own [Wikipedia] article has increased the quality of it a bit. Only a bit mind, as it credits The Telegraph with an article written for the Mail."

German encyclopaedia giant Brockhaus is moving out of printed encyclopaedias and is to concentrate on a free online version. The 21st edition is likely to be the past printed edition

"Wikipedia, the reader-written online encyclopaedia, which is bursting with false ?facts? and which is banned in a number of newsrooms, including that at The Times."

"Wikipedia, the reader-written online encyclopaedia, which is bursting with false “facts” and which is banned in a number of newsrooms, including that at The Times."

"’The German public was within a hair’s breadth of never learning of the end of an era,’ wrote Der Spiegel, until someone updated his death notice on the internet encyclopaedia site, Wikipedia."

"AFP was reported to have barred its journalists from using Facebook or Wikipedia as sources. Or rather, it has told its reporters not to simply to rely on these sites the sole source for a story. Anyone in journalism will tell you that this is just good

Readers’ editor Michael Williams on journalists’ use of Wikipedia: "I tested the entry for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday – a subject I ought to know something about. After the first 10 errors, I stopped counting. You have been warned!"

"[M]inutes after the WSJ sent out an alert about the George Mitchell baseball drug report, someone put up a list of the players names on Wikipedia. I saw it on public Twitter while randomly visiting the public page there. Wow. How can a newspaper hope to

"Probably the most heartening aspect of the online coverage is the way that mainstream media and individual citizen journalists have worked together."