This is a regularly updated post tracking all media coverage.
Mainstream newspapers:
Good on you to list Seth Finkelstein's blog here, he is a smart commentator and should be more widely read.
P.S. Are you color-blind? You need to change the "blue" and "red" key next to the "blog coverage".
another from Jason Scott: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000331.html
Haven't you got your red and blue colourings the wrong way round?
Angela Beesley has a http://wikiangela.com/blog/ on her blog, followed by "I'll miss you, Ryan." There's a place for comments! Angela had dinner with Ryan and the cabal in San Francisco. Next to Jimbo and Gil, she probably knows as much about who knew what, and when they knew it, as anybody at Wikia. Send her a comment about how she should have the courage to describe what happened, so that all of us are in a better position to make recommendations for increased accountability at Wikipedia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/technology/05wikipedia.html?ex=1330750800&en=3bfde7644e8fbc5c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink <-- WOOT.
The NYT story should help a lot. I was worried that this story might stay stuck in the blogosphere. But once the NYT publishes anything, it's officially okay for any reporter on the planet to treat it as worthy of his time and his publication. I put all the history links I have on this story in a box at the top of the home page at wikipedia-watch.org under the title, "The Essjay Evidence."
Some news bits from Germany:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/86203
(One of the most prominent German speaking computer magazines. Their coverage is quite complete though some important facts are missing e.g. Essjay's use of his false academic titles to grade up in article discussions)
http://golem.de/0703/50871.html
(Another important tech-news portal. Their story's only covering the very basics though)
http://www.intern.de/news/neue--meldungen/--200703021383.html
(The most complete coverage so far but not up-to-date. They haven't got Jimbo's second statement and Essjay's dismissal yet)
Mainstream media will jump in tomorrow, I guess. They tend to give a lot of credit to the Wikipedia project, after all we didn't have a Seigenthaler disaster on de.wikipedia.org till now...
Oh, one more link from Austria I found mentioning Essjay, dated 08/26/06:
http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3946&Alias=wzo&cob=245440
Nicely written article explaining pro's and con's of the Wikipedia project in general. Contributing to WP may become an obsession, they say. "Or how would you explain otherwise one Dr. Essjay (a pseudonym), a professor teaching theology at an US college, spending 14 hours per day on his computer, writing or editing 16,000 WP articles since February 05?"
Anon,
Could you pin the current AFDs, RFCs, and DRV-by-Shoutings to the dynamic list? What with all the name changes from Ryan Jordan to Essjay, Midnite Deletions, and All-Round Floating Crap Game going on, I can hardly keep a breast of the boobarama, and I think we all know how upsetting that can be.
Gratia In Futuro ...
Jonny
And here is Andrew Orlowskis comment in the Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/wikipedia_crisis/
Quote:
"The deception was initially unearthed by Daniel Brandt in January,"
Somey, I didn't tell Andrew that, and he didn't ask me that. On wikipedia-watch.org, in the box at the top, I am careful to give credit to "researchers" at wikipediareview.com. I even link to this site.
But look at it this way -- you need to "out" yourself and use your real name. No reporter will feel comfortable saying that "Somey, an anonymous user, found the new bio on wikia.com." So while I readily admit that you deserve the credit for finding the new bio on wikia.com, it's a lot more difficult for me to insist that a reporter give you the credit. And that's because you don't use your real name.
If I'm asked, I have to say "researchers at wikipediareview.com" found it. But I haven't been asked.
You have to admit, though, that I was a lot quicker to recognize that you stumbled across a smoking gun than you were, and that I acted on it, and you might not have acted on it if I hadn't noticed your post.
Andrew and I go back several years. We started with Google-bashing. He just assumed that I found the smoking gun. I had put about ten hours into Essjay research prior to your discovery, hours that turned up nothing. But at least I was able to smell smoke instantly when I saw Essjay's new bio, and I don't think your reaction to it was all that strong.
We need more people on this board who use their real names. Then we can talk about giving credit when it's due.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS01/703060446/1008
I just saw the Essjay scandal on ABC's World News Tonight!
Who knew this would be so huge!
Web Link (if not already listed here):
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2928756&page=1
whole lot of coverage today the 6th:
Dan Blacharski. "Blog Insights: Wikipedia's great fraud", ITworld.com. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Stephen Foley. "Wikipedia hit by identity crisis as student admits posing as professor", World news, Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
"Blog Insights: Wikipedia's great fraud", Editors, Foreign Policy. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Orlowski, Andrew. "Farewell, Wikipedia?", The Register, 6 March 2007.
Wolfson, Andrew. "Wikipedia editor who posed as professor is Ky. dropout", The Louisville Courier-Journal, 6 March 2007.
Staff. "Fake professor in Wikipedia storm", BBC News, 6 March 2007.
"Key Wikipedia 'editor' unmasked as fraud", Irish Independent. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Elsworth, Catherine. "Fake Wikipedia prof altered 20,000 entries", The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Cherian, Jacob. "Controversy Emanates Over Fake Editor On Wikipedia", All Headline News. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Staff. "Bogus professor resigns as Wiki editor", United Press International. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Foley, Stephen. "Wikipedia ‘Prof’ Is A Fraudster", The Statesman. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Cohen, Noam. "Wikipedia ire turns against ex-editor", International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Staff. "Wikipedia editor resigns after credentials exposed as bogus", Associated Press. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Goldman, Russell. "Wikiscandal: A Prominent Editor at the Popular Online Encyclopedia Is a Fraud", ABC News. Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
Cherian, Jacob. "Controversy emanates over fake editor on Wikipedia", BizReport, March 6, 2007.
Withers, Stephen. "Bogus professor quits Wikipedia", iTwire, Australia, March 6, 2007.
links for all on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay#Further_reading
and one more:
http://uscpwned.blogspot.com/2007/03/professor-fraud-at-wikipedia.html
And finally, CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/03/08/wikipedia.credentials.ap/index.html
"Robert Seigenthaler"? It was John Seigenthaler Sr., CNN! Yeesh! The media really doesn't check up on their facts. Ain't that right, The New Yorker ?