Provides a basic history, discusses some notable failures and the limitations of using a wiki as an encyclopedia.

Wikipedia dedicated, open source browser for Windows.

Overview of Wikipedia's growth, quality, and editing process.

Criticisms of Wikipedia and of arguments used by its admirers in an article by Andrew Orlowski.

Opinion article by Andrew Orlowski suggesting that Wikipedia has a long way to go before it's a stand-in for libraries and scholarly publications.

Commentary by Andrew Orlowski. "Our jibe that the Wikipedia is the world's most useless encyclopedia drew precisely two angry responses. But both illustrate the condition perfectly."

Offers excerpts from previous articles written on open source projects, and offers arguments that support it.

Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica, wonders about the Wikipedian assumptions that writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive and that articles will eventually reach a very high degree of...

Provides a critical review of Wikipedia.

Lovely forum discussion.