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==Commentary== ==Commentary==

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Misplaced Pages Review
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The Misplaced Pages Review logo, which uses a white hat
Type of siteInternet forum
Available inEnglish, German
OwnerAnonymous
RevenueAccepts donations
URLwww.wikipediareview.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional (required to post)

The Misplaced Pages Review is an Internet forum for the discussion of Wikimedia projects, in particular the content and conflicts of the English Misplaced Pages. In the InformationWeek Grok on Google blog, Alice LaPlante described Misplaced Pages Review as a "watchdog" website, "dedicated to scrutinizing Misplaced Pages and reporting on its flaws". It provides an independent forum to discuss Misplaced Pages editors and their influence on Misplaced Pages content. Participants range from current Misplaced Pages editors to people who have never edited, and a few users banned from Misplaced Pages.

Background

The site was founded in November 2005 by "Igor Alexander", and hosted by ProBoards. Since February 2006, the forum has been located at its own domain name and uses Invision Power Board software. The site requires registration using a valid e-mail address to post. It blacklists email providers which allow anonymity, which it says is to discourage the operation of multiple accounts by a single user.

Misplaced Pages Review has been cited for its discussion and evaluation of concepts surrounding wiki-editing, such as the Palo Alto Research Company's WikiDashboard, as well as used as an evaluation subject for the tool.

The site's domain name expired January 16, 2012.

Commentary

Misplaced Pages Review is not a conspiracy, a team-building exercise, a role-playing game, or an experiment in collusion. It is not meant as a resource or training ground for those who would instill fear and misery in others. It does not exist to corrupt, but to expose corruption; it does not exist to tear down institutions, but to expose the ways in which institutions are torn down; it does not exist to hate, but is meant to expose hate in others.

— Statement made when the site was out of service, Misplaced Pages Review

Seth Finkelstein wrote in The Guardian that Misplaced Pages Review has provided a focal point for investigation into Misplaced Pages-related matters such as the "Essjay controversy". Cade Metz, writing for The Register, credited Misplaced Pages Review with the discovery of a private mailing list that led to the resignation of a Misplaced Pages administrator; he also suggested that mentioning Misplaced Pages Review was banned on Misplaced Pages. The Independent noted that "allegations against certain administrators came to a head on a site called Misplaced Pages Review, where people debate the administrators' actions." Irish technology website Silicon Republic suggested visiting Misplaced Pages Review in order to "follow disputes, discussions, editors and general bureaucracy on Misplaced Pages". Philip Coppens used posts made on Misplaced Pages Review to help construct a report, published in Nexus Magazine, on WikiScanner and allegations that intelligence agencies had been using Misplaced Pages to spread disinformation.

Content and structure

Misplaced Pages Review's publicly-accessible forums are broken up into four general topic areas:

  1. Forum information;
  2. Wikimedia-oriented discussion, which contains subforums focusing on editors, the Misplaced Pages bureaucracy, meta discussion, articles and general Wikimedia-focused topics not fitting elsewhere;
  3. Media forums containing a news feed and discussion about news and blogs featuring Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia; and
  4. Off topic, non-Wikimedia related discussions.

References

  1. ^ "Original Misplaced Pages Review on Proboards". Misplaced Pages Review. 2005-11-25. Archived from the original on 2006-01-17.
  2. ^ "First post on www.wikipediareview.com". Misplaced Pages Review. 2006-02-19. Archived from the original on 2006-05-31.
  3. Mahadevan, Jeremy (2006-03-05). "Not everything on Misplaced Pages is fact". New Straits Times. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  4. "L'édition de référence libre et collaborative : le cas de Misplaced Pages" (in French). Institut national de recherche pédagogique. April 2006. p. 7. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  5. LaPlante, Alice (2006-07-14). "Spawn Of Misplaced Pages". InformationWeek. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  6. Shankbone, David (June 2008). "Nobody's safe in cyberspace". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  7. "Second post on www.wikipediareview.com". Misplaced Pages Review. Was The Misplaced Pages Review created by Igor Alexander? Yes.
  8. "Info for new registrants". Misplaced Pages Review. 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  9. "Augmented social cognition: understanding social foraging and social sensemaking" (PDF). Palo Alto Research Center. 2008. p. 5. Retrieved 2008-07-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  10. general chairs, Mary Czerwinski and Arnie Lund ; program chairs, Desney Tan. -- (2008). Lifting the veil: improving accountability and social transparency in Misplaced Pages with wikidashboard. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1037–1040. ISBN 978-1-60558-011-1. Retrieved 2008-07-01. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. "Providing social transparency through visualizations in Misplaced Pages" (PDF). ACM-SIGCHI. Social Data Analysis Workshop. CHI 2008, Florence, Italy: IBM / Palo Alto Research Company. 2008-04-06. Retrieved 2008-07-04. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  12. "Misplaced Pages Review - expired domain name". 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
  13. "Misplaced Pages Review out-of-service page". Misplaced Pages Review. 2008-06-24. Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
  14. Finkelstein, Seth (2007-12-06). "Inside, Misplaced Pages is more like a sweatshop than Santa's workshop". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  15. Metz, Cade (2007-12-04). "Secret mailing list rocks Misplaced Pages". The Register. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  16. Marsden, Rhodri (2007-12-06). "Cyberclinic: Who are the editors of Misplaced Pages?". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  17. Boran, Marie (2007-12-04). "Misplaced Pages under fire for 'editorial elite'". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  18. Coppens, Philip (October–November 2007). "The Truths and Lies of WikiWorld". Nexus. pp. 11–15, 77. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
  19. "Misplaced Pages Review". Retrieved 9 June 2010.

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