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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).
- November: "Web User Interaction: Threat Trees", a W3C Working Group Note, cites the English Wikipedia entries for cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting.
- September: FIDE uses the Spanish Wikipedia biographies of the contenders in the 2007 World Championship Tournament in Mexico. link
- August 24: List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film was cited by Peter Martin on the website Cinematical (which belongs to AOL). He referred to it as a "nicely formatted list of winners and nominees".[2]
- Official web site of the governor of South Australia links to Wikipedia biographical articles.
- July 25: BBC News directs readers to the Wikipedia article on social bookmarking to learn more about the service they launch on their web site.
- July British agency cites Wikipedia in denying F1 trademark
- June A religious web site of the Rapture persuasion, ShoutVoiceTrump.com, announces "Pre-Tribulation Rapture Already in Progress". They cite Wikipedia as the source: "The Rapture has started. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture"
- March 3: Nine Inch Nails, on their promotional website for their upcoming DVD Beside You in Time, include an HD FAQ briefly discussing the differences between DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray Disc; they point to our article Comparison of high definition optical disc formats for additional details. --Delirium 23:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- February 1: On the "Ben Franklin" episode of the US version of The Office, Jim Halpert explains that he looked up prima nocta on Wikipedia (actually a redirect to droit de seigneur) to confirm his suspicions that Michael Scott had used the term incorrectly.
- February: Steve Wander (editor) (February 2007). "Supercritical". System Failure Case Studies (NASA) 1 (4). http://pbma.nasa.gov/docs/public/pbma/general/sl1_sfcs.pdf. (an internal NASA safety awareness document) lists SL-1 as a reference.
- November 29: Environmental Assessment Application for Bear Mountain Wind Park Project (Volume 1 & 2) Re:
Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Visual meteorological conditions, and Main Page.
- November 19: A Simpsons episode capsule on snpp.com refers to wikipedia to explain the quote, "what John Glenn eats when he's not in space". [3]
- October 16: political commentary posted on YouTube cites the Wikipedia article on Bill Frist. Association of Professional Casino Webmasters commentary on Bill Frist
- August 20: dailyrotten.com uses the article Death (DC Comics) on their Sunday Morning Church Chat for Sunday, August 20th.
- July 26: The 9 on Yahoo! TV had on its list, "What Would MacGyver Do?", linking to the article List of problems solved by MacGyver.
- 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
- 1 March: Australian Senator Lyn Allison cites the article propaganda to describe Prime Minister John Howard on the eve of his tenth anniversary in office. [4]
- In the 2006 Da Vinci Code style novel The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne, which Piers Morgan said of: "The best thriller I've read in years" and the the British newspaper The Mirror said "The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown" , Wikipedia features as an academic style encyclopedia.
- The 2006 publication BioVisions 2015 by Siemens AG cites the articles Proteomics and Systems Biology.
- Sen. Paul Coghlan quotes Wikipedia on green card in Seanad Éireann debate Coghlan 24 November 2005 - Employment Rights - Statements : Column 1813
- Anne McIntosh MP quotes Wikipedia on persecution of Christians in 9th century China in UK House of Commons debate Hansard 13 Jul 2005 : Column 301WH
- Marilyn Burns, an Alberta politician, has her website linked to the Wikipedia article [5]
- 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]
- American Radio Works (the documentary arm of public radio program producer American Public Media (formerly known as Minnesota Public Radio, still the name of its parent)) cites Wikipedia as a source concerning Y2K, on the references page of its retrospective package "The Surprising Legacy of Y2K".
- 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".
- Gervase Markham writes about the book of mozilla and refers to about:mozilla on his blog, Hacking for Christ.
- del Arte, Alonso. "FUSION : Although current, Wikipedia not always reliable source of information". The South End Newspaper. March 2, 2005. [7]
- History Professor Eric Ash, of Wayne State University, stated that he had looked at the Samuel Smiles article for some general information:
- "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.
- 9 February: Australian MP Danna Vale discusses the article on totalitarianism in a speech about terrorism. [10]
- Mark Doernhoefer, Surfing the net for software engineering notes, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (November 2003). Has a section about wikipedia.
