Media focus on collaboration includes Wikipedia
The dedication of two major stories in the media this week to the intersection between technology and collaboration brought some incidental coverage to Wikipedia as well. The recent Iranian election spurred more use of Wikipedia as a source, and the practice of citing Wikipedia has even spread to the British government.
Wikipedia figured as a part of the cover story for BusinessWeek's 20 June issue, entitled "The Power Of Us", a story about online collaboration in general. The article cited Wikipedia as "the most breathtaking example" of online production of information content. It went on with the common approach of featuring a point-counterpoint between Jimmy Wales and a representative of Encyclopædia Britannica.
A very similar piece appeared in The Observer on Sunday, focusing in a parallel fashion on user-generated innovations in content and design. A sidebar to this article also mentioned Wikipedia as an example of "people power".