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Wikipediocracy
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Wikipediocracy screenshot taken May 18, 2013
Type of siteBlog and forum
Available inEnglish
Revenue0
URLwww.wikipediocracy.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional, required for some features
LaunchedMarch 16, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-03-16)
Current statusActive

Wikipediocracy is a website for discussion and criticism of Misplaced Pages. Its members have documented problems with Misplaced Pages and have sometimes provided journalists with background information on these problems.

Mission statement

The site describes its mission as being

"to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Misplaced Pages and its related projects; to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world’s most frequently visited websites, the 'encyclopedia that anyone can edit.'"

Media activity

Wikipediocracy contributors have played investigative roles in the reporting of various problems, conflicts, and controversies about Misplaced Pages. One of these was revealing the likely editor responsible for a hoax article on the "Bicholim conflict" which lasted five years before being challenged. More recently, Wikipediocracy members contacted Salon.com reporter Andrew Leonard to alert him of the "Qworty fiasco" and to supply him with information on the connection between Misplaced Pages editor Qworty and writer Robert Clark Young. This, in turn, led to Leonard's writing an article, Revenge, Ego, and the Corruption of Misplaced Pages, which published the fact that "revenge editor" Qworty was, in fact, Young in real life.

Members of the site have brought several other issues affecting Misplaced Pages to reporters' attention. For instance, when the Russian government threatened to shut down the Russian Misplaced Pages if they refused to delete information on marijuana, Wikipediocracy alerted The Daily Dot reporter Kevin Morris through Twitter of the extensive deletions made by Russian Wikipedians in the hope of staving off government action. Other areas where the assistance of Wikipediocracy members has been useful to the press have had to do with Jimmy Wales's relationship with the government of Kazakhstan and the complex controversy surrounding Gibraltarpedia.

Wikipediocracy bloggers

Contributors to the site's blog include Larry Sanger, co-founder of Misplaced Pages, in addition to other Misplaced Pages editors and administrators. Gregory Kohs, owner of MyWikiBiz, is a contributor to Wikipediocracy and owns the domain registration for Wikipediocracy.

See also

References

  1. "wikipediocracy.com info". alexa.com. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  2. ^ Leonard, Andrew (May 17, 2013). "Revenge, ego and the corruption of Misplaced Pages". Salon.com. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
  3. "Wikipediocracy". Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  4. Morris, Kevin (January 1, 2013). "After a half-decade, massive Misplaced Pages hoax finally exposed". The Daily Dot. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
  5. ^ Nichols, Martha; Berry, Lorraine (May 20, 2013). "What Should We Do About Misplaced Pages?". Talking Writing. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  6. Morris, Kevin (9 April 2013). "The Daily Dot - Misplaced Pages pot article loses bongs, gets OK'd in Russia". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  7. "Twitter / Wikipedia_Forum". Twitter. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  8. Morris, Kevin (25 December 2012). "The Daily Dot - Misplaced Pages's odd relationship with the Kazakh dictatorship". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  9. Alfonso, Fernando (25 October 2012). "The Daily Dot - Misplaced Pages's Jimmy Wales breaks silence on resurgence of influence-peddling scandal". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  10. Orlowski, Andrew (26 October 2012). "Wales: Let's ban Gibraltar-crazy Wikipedians for 5 years". The Register. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  11. ^ "Announcing a new Misplaced Pages criticism site | Wikipediocracy". Wikipediocracy. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  12. Poe, Marshall (September 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  13. Kohs, Gregory. "Cover-up begins in Misplaced Pages's Gibraltar scandal". Wikipediocracy. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
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