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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 | lastauthor=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 criticaldedicated 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 ==
WikipedocracyWikipediocracy 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=26 November 2015 }}</ref>
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