Wikipedia:Wikipedia on TV and radio

Wikipedia coverage on TV and Radio:

Please do not list any instances of Wikipedia being a product placement or a mere reference; for those, see Wikipedia in culture.

2023




2022

 * (Note: This interview was with David Ferriero on his last day as Archivist of the United States.)
 * (Note: This interview was with David Ferriero on his last day as Archivist of the United States.)
 * (Note: This interview was with David Ferriero on his last day as Archivist of the United States.)

2019

 * 2019-03-08: On The Chase, host Bradley Walsh refuted claims in his article that he had played football for Dunstable Town.
 * 2019-03-06: Wiki quests for Africa content, Radio France Internationale.
 * 2019-07-23: Carlin Isles Fact-Checks His Wikipedia Page, New England Cable News.
 * 2019-07-25: Why are so few women biographies included in Wikipedia?, Newsday.
 * 2019-12-05: Dr Jess Wade explains her quest for diversity and equality online, Woman's Hour.

2018

 * 2018-10-18: Wikipedia: A Tool of the Global Elite. RT, "On the latest episode of On Contact, investigative journalist Helen Buyniski exposes Jimmy Wales’ egalitarian Wikipedia as yet another tool of the ruling elite."
 * 2018-10-05: On BBC Radio Nottingham, footballer Franz Carr refutes claims in his article that he played for Pittsburgh Riverhounds, and that Brian Clough once locked him in a boiler room.
 * 2018-06-25: "Wikipedia workshops at Squeaky Wheel aim to recruit more female editors" broadcast on WBFO, the NPR member station for Buffalo, New York.
 * 2018-06-15: Trending on BBC World Service segment (23 minutes) "The Mysterious Wikipedia Editor" asked, "Who is 'Philip Cross'? That's the name on an account that has made more than 130,000 Wikipedia edits since 2004. But it's not so much the volume of his work but his subject matter that has irritated anti-war politicians and journalists around the world." Among those interviewed is admin "Orange Mike" Lowrey.
 * 2018-02-09: The article List of serial killers in the United States was discussed on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz.

2017
The keyboard player Rick Wakeman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends program today and was interviewed by Clive Anderson. In the course of this he mentioned Wikipedia and a fact he claimed we'd got wrong about him; from memory, he said that he played on the second Clive Dunn single in the early 70s, which didn't become a hit, not the one which became a No. 1 single (Grandad). He made a further, derogatory comment about Wikipedia as a whole which I see no point in repeating here. Meltingpot (talk) 07:28, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

2015

 * 2015-04-22/23: In the context of Grant Shapps's alleged editing of his own Wikipedia page, a reporter on PM on BBC Radio 4 edited the Wikipedia article about the programme. When this was discussed at AN/I, some of the discussion was read out on air. Further coverage followed the next day.
 * 2015-03-13: Forum on KQED-FM segment "Wikipedia's Gender and Race Gaps"

2014

 * 2014-03-30: Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR "Printing Wikipedia Would Take 1 Million Pages, But That's Sort Of The Point"

2013

 * 2013-10-27: Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR "'Sockpuppets' Lurking On Wikipedia"
 * 2013-07-12: TED Radio Hour "Why Does Wikipedia Work?"

2011

 * 2011-07-08: The Torchwood: Miracle Day episode "The New World" shows a Wikipedia-style page on which Gwen and Andy look up the number of people who are born and die each day in an article about the Earth.
 * 2011-06-13: Terry Pratchett was seen viewing the article Snuff (Pratchett novel) while working on the novel, about 5 minutes into the BBC TV documentary "Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die".
 * 2011-06-12: Wikipedia editor Andy Mabbett was interviewed by BBC presenter Carl Chinn on his BBC WM radio show, discussing the Birmingham 3 meet-up and Wikipedia in general. During the interview, Mabbett took a photograph of Chinn. He then uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons, and used it to illustrate the article on Chinn, all within the hour, and Chinn referred to this having been done, near the end of the programme. The interview is on iPlayer, and will remain there until 19 June.
 * 2011-06-06: In response to Sarah Palin supporters changing Wikipedia's entry for 'Paul Revere' to substantiate Palin's statement that Revere, during his famous midnight run, rang a bell and fired his musket repeatedly to signal Americans and British alike that battle was imminent, Stephen Colbert prompts viewers to update the Wikipedia page for 'bells' to further substantiate Palin's claim.
 * 2011-01-05 Jimmy Wales appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to celebrate Wikipedia's tenth anniversary.

2010

 * 2010-01-27 Daniel Tosh of the Comedy Central show Tosh.0 told his viewers, "So why don't you go to our Tosh.0 'boring' wikipedia page and put whatever you want. I'm not gonna fix it." The result was numerous changes made to the Tosh.0 Wikipedia article, culminating in the page being blocked from editing a few hours after the show aired. All entries from that date, factual and not, were deleted by Wikipedia personnel rather than simply being revised. Other Wikipedia articles, such as Conan O'Brien, Demetri Martin, and Jay Leno, were also affected. Tosh read some of the humorous revisions made to the article the following week on his show, and proceeded to apologize to Wikipedia for the mayhem he started.  The Tosh.0 page, however, remains blocked.
 * 2010-05-18 Geoff Lloyd of Absolute Radio mentioned the Macclesfield article and noted that his name is no longer there as a 'notable resident'.
 * 2010-06-06 Wikipedia's article on money laundering is seen in the Breaking Bad episode "Half Measures". In the episode, the character Skyler White is browsing the page to find out how to launder money from her husband's meth business. The page version in question is from between March 5, 2010 and April 19, 2010. (None of the differences are visible on-screen.)
 * 2010-08-09 Wikipedia is used as an example of collaborative writing in the CBC Radio show Ideas episode, Blue Metropolis Bleu - The Future of the Book, and encyclopedias are discussed as being indicators of social and technological change - the mass-popularity once a level of general literacy was obtained in the 18th century, and encyclopedias being at the forefront of technology in the forms of cd-roms and now online. (starting at 41:00)
 * 2010-09-29 In the second episode of the TV series Undercovers, one of the characters discusses trivia about Caracas, Venezuela, then ends with, "But you can't believe everything you read on Wikipedia. It isn't true that Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck are twin brothers".

2009

 * 2009-12-09 The Doctor Who episode "The Waters of Mars" shows a Wikipedia-style biographical page of Susie Fontana Brooke, a descendant of the character Adelaide Brooke, which changes when the Doctor changes history as well as a page about Bowie Base one, the Mars habitat which was the location of the episode.
 * 2009-11-29 CBC Radio Spark interviewed Mark Graham about Wikipedia's Blind Spots
 * 2009-10-12 The Big Bang Theory, episode 44: Rajesh Koothrappali reveals that his research has been a failure, and instead of performing research has spent the previous months at such activities as "messing around with Wikipedia articles".
 * 2009-09-25 BBC2 Newsnight discussion of reported decline in Wikipedia editors
 * 2009-09-28 Joseph Reagle interviewed by Bryan Crump on Radio New Zealand Nights.
 * 2009-07-23—2009-08-13 BBC Radio 4 broadcasts the first series satirical sketch show Bigipedia, set on a website parodying Wikipedia.
 * 2009-05-08 Pete Forsyth interviewed (along with Oregon Encyclopedia editor Bill Lang) on Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Think Out Loud" radio magazine. Web post and discussion thread; MP3 audio.
 * 2009-05-09 User:Fuzheado interviewed by Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand National about Wikipedia and his book The Wikipedia Revolution.
 * 2009-03-03 User:Reagle interviewed by Harold Channer on Manhattan Neighborhood Network about Wikipedia.
 * 2009-01-21 Law and Order episode "Pledge" describes a fictional Wikipedia contributor who repeatedly adds criticisms to a Wikipedia article about a sorority over the course of a year, forcing "the site administrator" to "freeze the article", before eventually killing a member of the sorority who had slighted him during college.
 * 2009-01-15 Jimmy Wales interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio One's Q (Canada) on the occasion of Wikipedia's eighth anniversary.
 * Radio Wikipedia 2

2008

 * 2008-10-16 Joe the Plumber article's quick creation mentioned on NBC Nightly News report about his rise to fame after the presidential debate he was mentioned many times in.
 * 2008-08-29 New Zealand television programme Nightline ran an article on the growth and accuracy of Wikipedia, including interviews with several New Zealand Wikipedia editors (User:Grutness and User:Zaf among them). A summary is online.
 * 2008-08-21 Blanche d'Alpuget, on ABC TV's Q&A, said that she put a lot of personal information into her new autobiography, "On longing", to set the record straight after reading her Wikipedia biography, as it then had a number of inaccuracies and was "crass".
 * 2008-06-05 During a televised broadcast of a Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball game, Len Kasper, a play-by-play announcer for WGN and Comcast SportsNet, cites Wikipedia as reference while talking about the Major League Baseball draft.
 * 2008-05-28 WCBS Newsradio 880's Paul Murnane does two short pieces about Wikipedia editing of Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama articles, featuring Wikipedia editor Wasted Time R; pieces broadcast several times that morning, one piece is online.
 * 2008-04-12 CNN's This Week... does a story on the "wiki war", vandalizing of Wikipedia to affect the 2008 United States presidential election and the successful efforts made to stop the vandals. Also used as basis of a CNN Video.  Both feature Wikipedia administrator Swatjester.
 * 2008-04-10 Hillary's Wiki Defender Wikipedia editor Wasted Time R interviewed about Hillary Rodham Clinton article by Jesse Brown on CBC Radio One program Search Engine (segment starts 16:40 into audio stream).
 * 2008-04-08 Wikipedia editor Wasted Time R interviewed about Hillary Rodham Clinton article by Pascal Harter on BBC World Service radio program The World Today (segment done 0350 hours British time, probably for second edition of night).
 * 2008-04-04 "Editors in Chief" The New Republic writer Eve Fairbanks appears on NPR's On the Media and is interviewed by Brooke Gladstone. Fairbanks discuss her TNR story about Wikipedia editors Bellwether BC and Wasted Time R and their efforts on the Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton articles.
 * 2008-04-03 'Round the Clock: Obama, Clinton Wiki-Warfare Wikipedia editors Wasted Time R and Tvoz discussed their work on Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama on NPR's magazine program The Bryant Park Project with hosts Alison Stewart and Rachel Martin.
 * 2008-03-05 ""Mass collaboration", Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, UK. RealAudio stream available to those in the UK for an indefinite period. (Accessed March 12, 2008). At the start of the programme the presenter Laurie Taylor reads several sentences from the Wikipedia article on Charles Leadbeater to lead in to a discussion with Leadbeater about mass collaboration. The first 5 minutes of their discussion concerns Wikipedia. It is briefly mentioned again when they discuss the rôle of rules, hierarchy and social structure in such collaborations shortly after the 11 minute mark.
 * 2008-01-28 – Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales are featured on the latest episode of Click, in an episode focused on Web 2.0 and user-created content. Editors from Britain can access the show on iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008ynf2.shtml until 2008-02-03.  The main Wikipedia coverage starts at around the 12 minute mark.

2007

 * 2007-11-21 – Paul Levinson talks about Wikipedia, and the importance of keeping it open to editing by everyone, at the end of interview on The Alcove with Mark Molaro
 * 2007-11-19 – the University Challenge second-round contest, between the University of St Andrews and the University of York, broadcast on BBC2, featured a set of three questions about Wikipedia terminology (paraphrased here): (1) What is the Wikipedia term for a page that can refer to several different objects or topics with the same name? (Answer: a disambiguation page); (2) What is the Wikipedia term for a phrase that inflates the importance of the subject of an article? (Answer: a peacock phrase); (3) Stated by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as "absolutely non-negotiable", what does the acronym NPOV stand for? (Answer: neutral point of view) The question was posed to the University of York team, who got all three questions correct, but ended up losing the contest.
 * November 2007 – In the film Lars and the Real Girl, Lars's brother, Gus, does an ask.com lookup for the words "mental illness delusion", and a Wikipedia hit is clearly shown on the screen as the first hit.
 * 2007-11-02 – BBC1's Have I Got News For You began with guest host Jo Brand incorrectly introducing panelist Andy Hamilton as a famous darts player ranked 7th in the world. She said she was surprised by this but it must be true because it said so on Wikipedia.
 * 2007-09-05 – BBC News's Newsnight introduced a report on Wikinomics by explaining the Wiki concept through the history of Wikipedia. Programme plan Stream available until approximate 2007-09-06 2130 UTC, at approximately 40'
 * 2007-08-21 – Comedy Central's The Colbert Report did a segment making fun of the recent revelations of corporate Wikipedia edits via the Wikipedia Scanner, and advocated getting rid of the scanner to protect the anonymity of corporate "online personalities".
 * 2007-08-13 – RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland intervies John Collins of The Irish Times who explains how it was discovered that CIA computers were used to edit pages relating to the Middle East.
 * 2007-08-13 – The Enemies of Reason on Channel 4, where Richard Dawkins claims that: "Wikipedia world presents both great opportunity and huge danger." 45:12
 * 2007-08-02 – The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, where Bernard Goldberg talks about Wikipedia having false information, libel, and defamation on the article about him. 05:00/05:31
 * 2007-07-24 – The Wikipedia Story on BBC Radio 4. "Clive Anderson looks at one of the world's fastest growing websites, the online encyclopedia to which anybody can contribute. Is Wikipedia a valuable source of human knowledge or a symptom of the spread of mediocrity and the devaluation of research?" link
 * 2007-07-01 – During a weekend sports recap on WFLD Fox Chicago, Ryan Theriot, a baseball player for the Chicago Cubs, was asked about unusual claims on his Wikipedia page, which claimed he was related to the author of a fictitious book My Girlfriend is Hotter Than Yours, and She Can Hold More Liquor, Too. Theriot stated he did not have such a relative, although he wished he did.
 * 2007-06-27 – Lewis Black, on The Daily Show, humorously discussed how conservatives were either buying liberal organizations or creating contrasting organizations, referenced Wikipedia's and Conservapedia's differences (specifically Conservapedia's conservative lean and the alleged liberal lean of Wikipedia), portraying each sites' main page as well as each sites' article on homosexuality.
 * 2007-05-22 – Charlie Rose interviewed Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on his television show again, discussing Wikipedia and Wales's newer Wikia-related ventures.
 * 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 titled "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."
 * 2007-01-12 : 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.

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.
 * 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.
 * 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." 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."
 * 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.
 * 2006-08-28: On The Stephanie Miller Show, a caller called in to comment on "voice monkey" Jim Ward's usage 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). [[Media:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

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.
 * 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..
 * 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"
 * 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
 * 2005-12-05: CNN interview with John Seigenthaler Sr. and Jimbo Wales
 * 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.
 * 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. (video and transcript).
 * 2005-09-01: BBC Radio Five Live, Dr. Karl's weekly phone-in. Brief discussion on the pros and cons of Wikipedia, focusing 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 Encyclopædia 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 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 closed-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" (closed captioned) 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, October 26, 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, and at MSNBC.
 * 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.
 * 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.

2004

 * 2004-12-11 17:30+02:00: Episode 4 of the television program go_open, 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 its 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.
 * December 4, 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.
 * November 17, 2004: Angela discusses Wikipedia on the You and Yours programmme on BBC Radio 4. You can listen to it at but you might need some sort of plugins.
 * October 9, 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.
 * October 4, 2004: Andrew Lih was interviewed for BBC's Go Digital program which was webcast.
 * August 6, 2004: Featured on Chip Talk, a one-minute radio program on computer software, hardware, and the Web, produced at Seattle'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 6, 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.
 * April 17, 2004 or April 20, 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 focusing 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

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 * Call for Help on TechTV.


 * Commentary: Wikis on NPR (July 21, 2003)

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