Misplaced Pages

The following is a list of films about Misplaced Pages.

Films

• The Truth According to Misplaced Pages (also referred to as Wiki's Warhead and Wiki's Truth) is a 2008 Dutch documentary film about Misplaced Pages directed by IJsbrand van Veelen which was originally shown on Backlight. The documentary examines the reliability of Misplaced Pages, and the dichotomy between usage of experts versus amateur editors. The film includes commentary from Misplaced Pages co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, The Cult of the Amateur author Andrew Keen, O'Reilly Media chief executive officer Tim O'Reilly, and former editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica Robert McHenry. Keen argues that experts should serve as guardians of information during the Web 2.0 phenomenon; this point of view is supported by analysis from Sanger. The film was released both as a Dutch-language and an English-language edition (with subtitles for interviews in other languages).
• Truth in Numbers? is a 2010 American documentary film which explores the history and cultural implications of the online user-editable encyclopedia Misplaced Pages. The film attempts to answer the question of whether any individual or only experts should be tasked with editing an encyclopedia. A history and background of the website is given, as well as commentary from Misplaced Pages founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Commentators that appear in the film include author Howard Zinn, Len Downie of The Washington Post, Bob Schieffer of CBS News, former Encyclopædia Britannica chief Robert McHenry, and former Central Intelligence Agency director James Woolsey. The documentary discusses incidents which shed a negative light on Misplaced Pages, including the Essjay controversy and the Misplaced Pages biography controversy.

• People are Knowledge is a film made during the course of a research project that explored how alternate methods of citation could be employed on Misplaced Pages. The film documents a series of specific situations with regards to published knowledge, and, subsequently, with oral citations. It was made by Priya Sen, Zen Marie and Achal Prabhala.
• Misplaced Pages and the Democratization of Knowledge is a 2021 German documentary film by the directors Lorenza Castella and Jascha Hannover. The film reviews the twenty-year history of Misplaced Pages. Thoughts on the project are shared from the founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, authors from Germany, France, Ghana, South Africa, the United States and other countries. A South African Wikipedian explains their experience with the Xitsonga language Misplaced Pages.
• Misplaced Pages – Die Schwarmoffensive is a 2021 German documentary film by María Teresa Curzio. It was published September 2021 on the television channel 3sat.
• Misplaced Pages: The Documentary, 2022 film directed by Patrick Ray Gallows

See also

• Bibliography of Misplaced Pages

References

1. Schonfeld, Erick (2008-04-08). "The Truth According to Misplaced Pages". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
2. Freccero, Paola (2011-01-13). "'Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Misplaced Pages' Premieres Internationally as Part of Misplaced Pages's 10th Anniversary Celebration". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
3. Krishna, Prasad (2011-07-22). "People are Knowledge – Experimenting with Oral Citations on Misplaced Pages — The Centre for Internet and Society". cis-india.org. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
4. "FLORIANFILMS: DAS[REDACTED] VERSPRECHEN: 20 Jahre Wissen für alle?". florianfilm.de (in German). Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
5. "Misplaced Pages - die Schwarmoffensive (2021)". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
6. Misplaced Pages : the documentary, WowNow Entertainment, 2022, retrieved 2024-02-22

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