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href="/wiki/Registered_user" title="Registered user">Users</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1630<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">March 16, 2012<span class="noprint">; 12 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2012-03-16</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Copyright retained by authors</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Wikipediocracy</b> is a website for discussion and <a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia" title="Criticism of Wikipedia">criticism of Wikipedia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Qworty_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Qworty-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-misogyny_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-misogyny-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its members have brought information about <a href="/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversies" title="List of Wikipedia controversies">Wikipedia's controversies</a> to the attention of the media. The site was founded in March 2012 by users of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_Review" title="Wikipedia Review">Wikipedia Review</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-HerschWelcome_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HerschWelcome-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> another site dedicated to criticism of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-spawn_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spawn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The site is "known for digging up dirt on Wikipedia's top brass", wrote reporter Kevin Morris in the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Dot" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Dot">Daily Dot</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-vandalizing_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vandalizing-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Novelist <a href="/wiki/Amanda_Filipacchi" title="Amanda Filipacchi">Amanda Filipacchi</a> wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> that the site "intelligently discusses and entertainingly lambastes Wikipedia’s problematic practices".<sup id="cite_ref-Amanda1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amanda1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipediocracy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wikipediocracy was cofounded by Gregory Kohs<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after being blocked by Wikipedia co-founder <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> for founding <a href="/wiki/MyWikiBiz" class="mw-redirect" title="MyWikiBiz">MyWikiBiz</a>, a service dedicated to writing entries for businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Website_user_activism">Website user activism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipediocracy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Website user activism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Doctoral_thesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctoral thesis">doctoral thesis</a>, internet policy and law specialist <a href="/wiki/Heather_Ford" title="Heather Ford">Heather Ford</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revenge_editing">Revenge editing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipediocracy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Revenge editing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013, Wikipediocracy members contacted <i><a href="/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com">Salon.com</a></i> reporter <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Leonard" title="Andrew Leonard">Andrew Leonard</a> to alert him about the "Qworty fiasco".<sup id="cite_ref-whatistobedone_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whatistobedone-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Qworty:_the_fallout_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Qworty:_the_fallout-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wikipedia user Qworty had attracted attention for his provocative comments in a debate on Wikipedia's treatment of female writers.<sup id="cite_ref-Wikipedia's_Shame_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wikipedia's_Shame-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It emerged that many of his past contributions affected the site's treatment of, and targeted rivals of, writer <a href="/wiki/Robert_Clark_Young" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Clark Young">Robert Clark Young</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Qworty_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Qworty-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This background information led to Leonard's challenging Young in an article "Revenge, Ego, and the Corruption of Wikipedia", which identified Young as Qworty. Just before the publication of Leonard's article, Qworty had been banned from editing Wikipedia biographies of living persons due to this behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-Qworty_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Qworty-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-whatistobedone_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whatistobedone-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Discussion_of_governments">Discussion of governments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipediocracy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Discussion of governments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wikipediocracy contributors' criticisms of Wikipedia have been discussed in news stories covering <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a>'s relationship with the government of <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_Dot_Kazakh_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_Dot_Kazakh-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-netprophet_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-netprophet-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_Kazakh_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph_Kazakh-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Gibraltarpedia#Controversy" title="Gibraltarpedia">Gibraltarpedia controversy</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_Dot_influence_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_Dot_influence-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-El_Reg_Gibraltarpedia_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-El_Reg_Gibraltarpedia-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congressional_staff_edits_to_Wikipedia" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia">an anonymous edit</a> made from a <a href="/wiki/U.S._Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate">U.S. Senate</a> <a href="/wiki/IP_address" title="IP address">IP address</a> that labelled whistle-blower <a href="/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a> a "traitor".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2014, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Telegraph</a></i>, working with Wikipediocracy, uncovered evidence identifying the <a href="/wiki/Hillsborough_Wikipedia_posts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hillsborough Wikipedia posts">civil servant who had allegedly vandalized the Wikipedia articles</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster" title="Hillsborough disaster">Hillsborough disaster</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anfield" title="Anfield">Anfield</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikimedia_Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipediocracy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Wikimedia Foundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Wikipediocracy blog post reported in 2013 that Wikipedia was being vandalized from <a href="/wiki/IP_address" title="IP address">IP addresses</a> assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> (WMF).<sup id="cite_ref-vandalizing_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vandalizing-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Responding to the allegations, WMF spokesman Jay Walsh stated that the IP addresses belonged to WMF servers and were not used by the WMF offices. He stated that the addresses were assigned to some edits by IPs due to a misconfiguration, which was corrected.<sup id="cite_ref-vandalizing_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vandalizing-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_issues">Other issues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipediocracy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Wikipediocracy forum discussion identified the Wikipedia account responsible for a hoax article Wikipedia administrators had recently <a href="/wiki/Deletion_of_articles_on_Wikipedia" title="Deletion of articles on Wikipedia">deleted</a>. The "<a href="/wiki/Bicholim_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Bicholim conflict">Bicholim conflict</a>" article described a fictitious 1640–41 <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> civil war. It was awarded Wikipedia's "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles" title="Wikipedia:Good articles">Good article</a>" status in 2007, and retained it until late 2012, when a Wikipedian checked the article's cited sources and found that none of them appeared to exist.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A September 2013 story resulting from a Wikipediocracy tip-off concerned commercial plastic surgeons editing Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Plastic_surgery" title="Plastic surgery">plastic surgery</a> articles to promote their services. Concerns with violations of conflict of interest guidelines and the provision of misinformation in the relevant articles had also been raised by Wikipediocracy members on Wikipedia itself.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2015, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee banned a user after finding he had edited to promote the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management" title="Indian Institute of Planning and Management">Indian Institute of Planning and Management</a> and added negative material to the article on another university. The user's edits had been noted in Wikipediocracy in December 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 2020, Wikipediocracy raised issues about the accuracy of the Wikipedia page of <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Alahverdian" title="Nicholas Alahverdian">Nicholas Alahverdian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-provj2020_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-provj2020-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Wikipediocracy blog team member said that multiple Wikipedia accounts created by Alahverdian edited his Wikipedia page, and that one of these accounts had tried to remove Alahverdian's image, replacing it with an image of another person.<sup id="cite_ref-provj2020_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-provj2020-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A notice was added to Wikipedia that acknowledged that the "truthfulness of this article has been questioned".<sup id="cite_ref-provj2020_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-provj2020-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2021, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Providence_Journal" title="The Providence Journal">The Providence Journal</a></i> reported that American authorities in July 2020 investigated whether Alahverdian had really died in February 2020 as reported in the media.<sup id="cite_ref-provj2020_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-provj2020-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alahverdian was subsequently found alive in Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 November</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Wikipediocracy+%E2%80%93+Index+Page&rft.pub=wikipediocracy.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwikipediocracy.com%2Fforum%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipediocracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Qworty-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Qworty_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Qworty_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Qworty_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeonard2013" class="citation web cs1">Leonard, Andrew (17 May 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/revenge_ego_and_the_corruption_of_wikipedia/">"Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia"</a>. <i>Salon.com</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160531215546/http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/revenge_ego_and_the_corruption_of_wikipedia/">Archived</a> from the original on 31 May 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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