Below is a list of documents that have cited Wikipedia as a source and are of general interest to Wikipedians, but don't fall into one of the other categories (see right).
2014
23 February: The
active noise control article is referenced in a discussion of how
noise-cancelling headphones work by Scientific American. The article says, "There are several websites that explain how these headphones work, so a simple google search will lead you to them, but really, Wikipedia does a fine job if you don't mind a bit of physics terminology."
2013
Robert W. Wood, Jackson Estate Says, "Beat It, IRS."NYSBA Journal, November/December 2013. pp. 11-13, at 13. Cited
Celebrity bond in footnote 4.
29 June: Signpost for the new street "Erika-Mann-Bogen" (English:
Erika Mann drive) in
Hamburg, Germany, citing Wikipedia for the explanation of its name.
February: Steve Wander, ed. (February 2007).
"Supercritical"(PDF). System Failure Case Studies. 1 (4). NASA. (an internal NASA safety awareness document) lists
SL-1 as a reference.
Sprite launches "sublyminal" campaign. Entering "illusion" as a code on the sprite website unlocks several lines of text from wikipedia, and the URL of the article floats around the screen
The
Parliament of Canada cites Wikipedia's article on
Same-sex marriage in the further reading list of
Bill C-38 (An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes).
[6]
In
Apple Computer's
announcement that one of the winners of its OS X Tiger Dashboard contest is the "WikityWidget", it links Wikipedia's
wiki article to explain "wiki technology".
"Ash recalled that one time, before giving a lecture on a novel by 19th century author Samuel Smiles, he turned to Wikipedia to see if he could find some supplemental information.
"Ash said, 'Wikipedia had one screen of information. I learned he’d written other books' besides the one he was lecturing about."
Kilmer, Mark. "Fatwa Against bin Laden". March 10, 2005. Redstate.
[8]
Wikipedia defines a
fatwa as "a legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue." OBL does not qualify, while the Spanish Islamic Commission just might. And they've issued a fatwa against bin Laden for making up Islam as he goes along.
Crouch, Dennis. "Intellectual Property Podcasting". March 17, 2005.
[9]
Podcasting is catching on as an extension of the blog. According to the Wikipedia, a podcast is like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the Internet, and can listen to them at their leisure.
"
Mel Gibson's Film "The Passion of the Christ" - AN INTERNATIONAL HOAX" references Wikipedia on a number of topics, particularly
Aramaic. It is a document which refers to many sources in order to demonstrate that "The Passion of the Christ" is a Satanic film designed to trick good Christians into worshipping the Antichrist.
Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, Cybercrime. Cites
worm,
virus,
payload and
trojan.
[15]
Mark Doernhoefer, Surfing the net for software engineering notes, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (November 2003). Has a section about wikipedia.
Below is a list of documents that have cited Wikipedia as a source and are of general interest to Wikipedians, but don't fall into one of the other categories (see right).
2014
23 February: The
active noise control article is referenced in a discussion of how
noise-cancelling headphones work by Scientific American. The article says, "There are several websites that explain how these headphones work, so a simple google search will lead you to them, but really, Wikipedia does a fine job if you don't mind a bit of physics terminology."
2013
Robert W. Wood, Jackson Estate Says, "Beat It, IRS."NYSBA Journal, November/December 2013. pp. 11-13, at 13. Cited
Celebrity bond in footnote 4.
29 June: Signpost for the new street "Erika-Mann-Bogen" (English:
Erika Mann drive) in
Hamburg, Germany, citing Wikipedia for the explanation of its name.
February: Steve Wander, ed. (February 2007).
"Supercritical"(PDF). System Failure Case Studies. 1 (4). NASA. (an internal NASA safety awareness document) lists
SL-1 as a reference.
Sprite launches "sublyminal" campaign. Entering "illusion" as a code on the sprite website unlocks several lines of text from wikipedia, and the URL of the article floats around the screen
The
Parliament of Canada cites Wikipedia's article on
Same-sex marriage in the further reading list of
Bill C-38 (An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes).
[6]
In
Apple Computer's
announcement that one of the winners of its OS X Tiger Dashboard contest is the "WikityWidget", it links Wikipedia's
wiki article to explain "wiki technology".
"Ash recalled that one time, before giving a lecture on a novel by 19th century author Samuel Smiles, he turned to Wikipedia to see if he could find some supplemental information.
"Ash said, 'Wikipedia had one screen of information. I learned he’d written other books' besides the one he was lecturing about."
Kilmer, Mark. "Fatwa Against bin Laden". March 10, 2005. Redstate.
[8]
Wikipedia defines a
fatwa as "a legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue." OBL does not qualify, while the Spanish Islamic Commission just might. And they've issued a fatwa against bin Laden for making up Islam as he goes along.
Crouch, Dennis. "Intellectual Property Podcasting". March 17, 2005.
[9]
Podcasting is catching on as an extension of the blog. According to the Wikipedia, a podcast is like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the Internet, and can listen to them at their leisure.
"
Mel Gibson's Film "The Passion of the Christ" - AN INTERNATIONAL HOAX" references Wikipedia on a number of topics, particularly
Aramaic. It is a document which refers to many sources in order to demonstrate that "The Passion of the Christ" is a Satanic film designed to trick good Christians into worshipping the Antichrist.
Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, Cybercrime. Cites
worm,
virus,
payload and
trojan.
[15]
Mark Doernhoefer, Surfing the net for software engineering notes, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (November 2003). Has a section about wikipedia.