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Elections in Iran

Recent election activity in Iran has attracted press sources to Wikipedia. The Daily Telegraph, in a June 15 article about Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, encourages readers to read more about the likely future president of Iran by visiting the Wikipedia link. Similarly, an Economist article covering the elections directed users to the Wikipedia overview article for more information. The Commercial Appeal, the Memphis daily and regular consumer of Wikipedia, cites Wikipedia in a June 16 information inset as the primary source for their profile of Iran.

Welsh Wikipedia

The accumulated good work of Welsh Wikipedians was acknowledged by the Western Mail, the national newspaper of Wales, on June 14, when an article called Wikipedia "the first Welsh language encyclopaedia to be published in more than 100 years." The newspaper further provided brief praise of the early diversity of the encyclopedia: There are now 3,000 entries, on subjects as diverse as Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru to Pol Pot, which can be consulted, amended and added-to by any other user.

It's Wikipedia.org!

Press sources often incorrectly transcribe the URL of Wikipedia. Christian Science Monitor, an American political daily venerated for careful attention to facts, committed this pedantic mistake, in a June 20th article offering encouraging praise:

"Wikipedia.com has become a raging success, gaining respect for its reliability and spawning 600,000 entries in English and hundreds of thousands more in languages from Korean and Finnish to Hebrew and Esperanto. Not surprisingly, "wikinews" has appeared, too, allowing amateur reporters to collectively write articles about current events."

Quick hit of citations

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 20):"He commissioned a stained glass window with his image and asked that it be placed next to windows of the 12 apostles, according to the Wikipedia Web site." link
• Calgary Herald (June 19):"A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend..." - Credited and taken verbatim
• New Strait Times (June 19):"According to Wikipedia, whether the male parent is ayah, papa, daddy or appa, fathers may be categorised according to their biological, social or legal relationship with the child."