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{{short description|Website for discussion and criticism of Wikipedia}}
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== Website user activism ==
Wikipedocracy contributors have investigated problems, conflicts, and controversies associated with Wikipedia, some being reported by mainstream media. The site's stated mission is "to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia" and related projects. In a [[doctoral thesis]], internet policy and law specialist [[Heather Ford]] commented on Wikipediocracy's role, saying, "as Wikipedia's authority grows, and more groups feel disenfranchised by its processes, the growth of watchdog groups like Wikipediocracy who act as translators of Wikipedia's complex structures, rules and norms for mainstream media and who begin to give voice to those who feel that they have been excluded from Wikipedia's representational structures will continue."<ref>Ford, Heather, "[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282643334_Fact_factories_Wikipedia_and_the_power_to_represent Fact factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent]", [[Kellogg College, Oxford]], August 2015, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4068.9361 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126113811/http://www.researchgate.net/publication/282643334_Fact_factories_Wikipedia_and_the_power_to_represent |date=
=== Revenge editing ===
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In February 2015, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee banned a user after finding he had edited to promote the [[Indian Institute of Planning and Management]] and added negative material to the article on another university. The user's edits had been noted in Wikipediocracy in December 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scroll.in/article/714291/Wikipedia-bans-editor-for-consistent-bias-in-favour-of-Arindam-Chaudhuri%27s-IIPM|title=Wikipedia bans editor for consistent bias in favour of Arindam Chaudhuri's IIPM|website=www.scroll.in|first=Mridula|last=Chari|date=25 March 2015|access-date=5 April 2015|archive-date=30 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430081559/http://scroll.in/article/714291/Wikipedia-bans-editor-for-consistent-bias-in-favour-of-Arindam-Chaudhuri%27s-IIPM|url-status=live}}</ref>
In late 2020, Wikipediocracy raised issues about the accuracy of the Wikipedia page of [[Nicholas Alahverdian]].<ref name="provj2020">{{Cite web|last=Mooney|first=Tom|title=He was reported dead, but the state police kept looking for Nick Alahverdian|url=https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2021/01/27/nicholas-alahverdian-dcyf-critic-death-got-attention-state-police/4258174001/|access-date=27 January 2021
==See also==
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*[http://wikipediocracy.com/2015/08/16/a-compendium-of-wikipedia-criticism/ A Compendium of Wikipedia Criticism]: summary post explaining the site's objections to Wikipedia practices
* [http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/the-dark-side-of-wikipedia "The Dark Side of Wikipedia,"] ''[[Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson]]'',
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