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Line 14: \| registration = Optional, required for some features \| language = English \| num_users = ~~1397~~1422<ref>{{cite web\| url=http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/\| title=Wikipediocracy – Index Page\| publisher=wikipediocracy.com\| access-date=~~November~~December 1826, 2023}}</ref> \| content_license = Copyright retained by authors \| launch_date = {{Start date and age\|2012\|03\|16}} \| current_status = Active }} '''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 \| author=Hersch \| 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~~dedicated to criticism 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> == History == Wikipediocracy was cofounded by Gregory Kohs,<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.foxnews.com/tech/wikipedia-abandons-efforts-to-purge-porn-from-online-encyclopedia \| title=Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia \| website=[[Fox News]] \| date=25 March 2015 }}</ref> after being blocked by Wikipedia co-founder, [[Jimmy Wales]] for founding [[MyWikiBiz]], a service dedicated to writing entries for businesses.<ref>{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1yNL0iI5T0C&dq=Gregory%20%22Kohs%22%20%22mywikibiz%22&pg=PA142 \|title=Notions of Community: A Collection of Community Media Debates and Dilemmas \|year=2009 \|editor-last=Gordon \|editor-first=Janey \|author-last=Stewart \|author-first=Gavin \|contribution=Selling Community: Corporate Media, Marketing and Blogging \|page=142 \|publisher=[[Peter Lang (publisher)\|Peter Lang]] \|isbn=9783039113743}}</ref> == Website user activism ==