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Happy 9th Birthday Wikipedia; and guess who is citing it now?

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Feb, 2010

* Wikipedia celebrated its ninth birthday.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/15/another-year-wiser/

* More than 800 patents issued by the US in 2009 cited one or more Wikipedia articles, an increase of 59% from 2008.
http://patentlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/01/wikipedia-citations-in-patents-up-59.html

From: SPARC Open Access Newsletter

This entry was posted on 04 February, 2010 09:56 and filed under Wikipedia and other wiki encyclopedias .

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