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{{short description|Website for discussion and criticism of Wikipedia}}
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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>
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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 ==
Wikipediocracy 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=
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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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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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*{{Official|http://wikipediocracy.com }}
*[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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