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{{Infobox website
| name = Wikipediocracy
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| logo_size = 200px
| logocaption = Forum banner
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| language = English
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| content_license = Copyright retained by authors
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2012|03|16}}
| current_status = Active
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'''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 |
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>
== History ==
Wikipediocracy was cofounded by Gregory Kohs
== Website user activism ==
=== Revenge editing ===
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Wikipediocracy contributors' criticisms of Wikipedia have been discussed in news stories covering [[Jimmy Wales]]'s relationship with the government of [[Kazakhstan]],<ref name="Daily Dot Kazakh">{{cite web |url = http://www.dailydot.com/politics/wikipedia-kazakhstan-dictatorship/ |title = Wikipedia's odd relationship with the Kazakh dictatorship |last = Morris |first = Kevin |date = 25 December 2012 |website = The Daily Dot |access-date = 18 May 2013 |archive-date = 25 May 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160525060031/http://www.dailydot.com/politics/wikipedia-kazakhstan-dictatorship/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="netprophet">{{cite web |url = http://netprophet.tol.org/2013/01/08/critics-question-neutrality-of-kazakh-wikipedia/ |title = Critics question neutrality of Kazakh Wikipedia |last = Hermans |first = Steven |date = 8 January 2013 |website = NET PROPHET |access-date = 26 May 2013 |archive-date = 28 April 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190428202345/http://netprophet.tol.org/2013/01/08/critics-question-neutrality-of-kazakh-wikipedia/ |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="Telegraph Kazakh">{{cite web |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9764719/Wikipedia-co-founder-Jimmy-Wales-restricts-discussion-of-Tony-Blair-friendship.html |title = Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales restricts discussion of Tony Blair friendship |last = Williams |first = Christopher |date = 24 December 2012 |work = The Telegraph |access-date = 26 May 2013 |archive-date = 17 August 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190817033031/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9764719/Wikipedia-co-founder-Jimmy-Wales-restricts-discussion-of-Tony-Blair-friendship.html |url-status = live }}</ref> the [[Gibraltarpedia#Controversy|Gibraltarpedia controversy]],<ref name="Daily Dot influence">{{cite web |url = http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-influence-scandal/ |title = Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales breaks silence on resurgence of influence-peddling scandal |last = Alfonso |first = Fernando |date = 25 October 2012 |website = [[The Daily Dot]] |access-date = 18 May 2013 |archive-date = 29 October 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029183926/http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-influence-scandal/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="El Reg Gibraltarpedia">{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/26/gibraltar_pwns_wikipedia/|title=Wales: Let's ban Gibraltar-crazy Wikipedians for 5 years|publisher=The Register|first=Andrew|last=Orlowski|author-link=Andrew Orlowski|date=26 October 2012|access-date=19 May 2013|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101174115/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/26/gibraltar_pwns_wikipedia/|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[United States Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia|an anonymous edit]] made from a [[U.S. Senate]] [[IP address]] that labelled whistle-blower [[Edward Snowden]] a "traitor".<ref>{{cite web|first=Joe|last=Kloc|title=Is a U.S. senator trolling Snowden's Wikipedia page?|website=[[The Daily Dot]]|url=http://www.dailydot.com/politics/wikipedia-senate-snowden-nsa-traitor/|date=3 August 2013|access-date=4 September 2013|archive-date=7 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307211929/http://www.dailydot.com/politics/wikipedia-senate-snowden-nsa-traitor/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Lorenzo|last=Franceschi-Bicchierai|title=Wikipedia Editor Traced to U.S. Senate Changes Snowden's Bio to 'Traitor'|website=[[Mashable]]|url=http://mashable.com/2013/08/06/snowden-wikipedia-page/|date=6 August 2013|access-date=4 September 2013|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101174128/https://mashable.com/2013/08/06/snowden-wikipedia-page/|url-status=live}}</ref>
In May 2014, ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', working with Wikipediocracy, uncovered evidence identifying the [[Hillsborough Wikipedia posts|civil servant who had allegedly vandalized the Wikipedia articles]] on the [[Hillsborough disaster]] and [[Anfield]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10844002/Civil-servants-behind-sickening-Hillsborough-slurs-identified.html | title=Civil servants behind 'sickening' Hillsborough slurs identified | first=Oliver | last=Duggan | date=21 May 2014 | work=The Daily Telegraph | access-date=21 June 2014 | archive-date=1 January 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101180641/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10844002/Civil-servants-behind-sickening-Hillsborough-slurs-identified.html | url-status=live }}<br/>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hillsborough-wikipedia-posts-suspected-civil-servant-a-merseyside-resident-9413069.html | title=Hillsborough Wikipedia posts: Suspected civil servant a Merseyside resident | first=Kashmira | last=Gander | date=21 May 2014 | work=[[The Independent]] | access-date=21 June 2014 | archive-date=1 January 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101174117/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hillsborough-wikipedia-posts-suspected-civil-servant-a-merseyside-resident-9413069.html | url-status=live }}<br/>{{cite web|first=Oliver|last=Duggan|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10904540/Civil-servant-fired-after-Telegraph-investigation-into-Hillsborough-Wikipedia-slurs.html|title=Civil servant fired after Telegraph investigation into Hillsborough Wikipedia slurs|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 June 2014|access-date=21 June 2014|archive-date=5 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105021357/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10904540/Civil-servant-fired-after-Telegraph-investigation-into-Hillsborough-Wikipedia-slurs.html|url-status=live}}<br/>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/17/civil-servant-sacked-wikipedia-edits-hillsborough|first=Mark|last=Tran|work=The Guardian|title=Civil servant sacked for offensive Wikipedia edits on Hillsborough|date=17 June 2014|access-date=17 June 2014|archive-date=17 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617104603/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/17/civil-servant-sacked-wikipedia-edits-hillsborough|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10905847/How-The-Telegraph-identified-the-Hillsborough-Wikipedia-vandal.html | title=How The Telegraph identified the Hillsborough Wikipedia vandal | first=Oliver | last=Duggan | date=17 June 2014 | work=The Daily Telegraph | access-date=21 June 2014 | archive-date=25 December 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225142800/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10905847/How-The-Telegraph-identified-the-Hillsborough-Wikipedia-vandal.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
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