'''Wikipediocracy''' is a website for discussion and [[Wikipedia app|criticism of Wikipedia]]. Its members have brought information about [[List of Wikipedia policies|Wikipedia's controversies]] to the attention of the media. The site was founded in March 2012 by users of [[Help:Redirect|Wikipedia Review]], another site critical of [[Wikimedia Commons|Wikipedia]].
'''Wikipediocracy''' is a website for discussion and [[criticism of Wikipedia]].<ref name="Qworty" /><ref name="misogyny">{{cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2013/0801/In-UK-rising-chorus-of-outrage-over-online-misogyny|title=In UK, rising chorus of outrage over online misogyny: Recent events in Britain draw more attention to endemic hostility towards women online|first=Dan|last=Murphy|date=1 August 2013|access-date=1 August 2013|newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|archive-date=17 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817053806/http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2013/0801/In-UK-rising-chorus-of-outrage-over-online-misogyny|url-status=live}}</ref> Its members have brought information about [[List of Wikipedia controversies|Wikipedia's controversies]] to the attention of the media. The site was founded in March 2012 by users of [[Wikipedia Review]],<ref name="HerschWelcome">{{cite web | url=http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=15 | title=Welcome | publisher=Wikipediocracy | work=Mission statement and welcome to the public | date=15 March 2012 | access-date=26 June 2013 | last=Hersch | first=Global moderator | archive-date=13 December 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213115716/http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=15 | url-status=live }}</ref> another site critical of [[Wikipedia]].<ref name="spawn">{{cite web|url=http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/07/spawn_of_wikipe.html|title=Spawn Of Wikipedia|last=LaPlante|first=Alice|date=14 July 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612054446/http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/07/spawn_of_wikipe.html|archive-date=12 June 2011|work=[[InformationWeek]]|access-date=1 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/express/nobodys-safe-in-cyber-space|title=Nobody's safe in cyberspace|last=Shankbone|first=David|date=June 2008|work=[[The Brooklyn Rail]]|access-date=1 July 2008|archive-date=28 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828174828/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/express/nobodys-safe-in-cyber-space|url-status=live}}</ref>
The site is "known for digging up dirt on Wikipedia's top brass", wrote reporter Kevin Morris in the ''[[Daily Dot]]''.<ref name=vandalizing /> Novelist [[Amanda Filipacchi]] wrote in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' that the site "intelligently discusses and entertainingly lambastes Wikipedia’s problematic practices".<ref name=Amanda1>{{cite web|last=Filipacchi|first=Amanda|title=My Strange Addiction: Wikipedia|date=10 July 2013|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/10/my-strange-addiction-wikipedia/|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|access-date=11 July 2013|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101174118/https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/10/my-strange-addiction-wikipedia/|url-status=live}}</ref>