Britannica's issued a salvo against Nature's famous "Wikipedia and the EB are comparably error-strewn" analysis. Here (pdf).
posted on Mar 23, 2006 - View this thread

The journal Nature: "Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries."
Nature had experts review articles from both encyclopedias. (Also, 10% of Nature authors contribute to Wikipedia.)
posted on Dec 14, 2005 - View this thread

Placeopedia combines Wikipedia and Google Maps.
posted on Sep 21, 2005 - View this thread

Wikimania begins on wednesday (in Germany). Unless you're there, you won't be able to hear the presentations on getting wikipedia into africa, a timeline with all of human history on it, or the intersect of art and science, but the media competion nominees are online. Check out the animations.
posted on Aug 2, 2005 - View this thread

The avatar versus the journalist. Ant farms, Bombay, the neolithic revolution, and Wikipedia.
posted on Jul 22, 2005 - View this thread

Waxy's contest to design an interface for animating wikipedia histories has already borne fruit.
posted on Jun 16, 2005 - View this thread