A nice Spanish-language blog article about Wikipediocracy

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A nice Spanish-language blog article about Wikipediocracy

Unread post by Hersch » Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:46 pm

Here's the source.

Here's the Google translation:
lto Wikipedia is one of the major figures of the Web, one of the symbols of the revolution in the field of communication and knowledge that are encouraging new technologies. His intelligence sharing formula is, a priori, simple, clear and bright: "The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit '.
However, they are few criticisms from various sectors and for different reasons, have accompanied this superwiki from almost the beginning. Since its inconsistency and permeability to errors and manipulations to the intolerance of its editors, to irregularities in the management of their funds, if they have always defended their transparency -, allegations and accusations are repeated on websites and media without so far, they have managed to oust their privileged status as 'oracle' of the new millennium.

In this field precisely moves Wikipediocracy , a site that features blog page format and forum , devoted body and soul to reveal anything that might compromise the integrity or reliability of Wikipedia and its leaders:

We exist to shed light on the dark crevices of Wikipedia and related projects; to investigate their corruption, along with structural defects; and to warn the unsuspecting public against the flood of misinformation, slander, and general nonsense that can be found in one of the most visited websites in the world
The site was created in March 2012 by, as in you can see, some men really pissed with draft Jimmy Wales already collaborated on Wikipedia Review and, like Wikipedia itself, is open to the "general public" although the welcome page of the forum make it clear that:

This site is strictly moderated. Posts that have nothing to do with the topic or are bothersome may be moved or deleted at the discretion of our prestigious team of moderators, veterans all Wikipedia editors on their best days
Among his' greatest hits' are posts like ' Why people involved in Wikipedia? ',' A compendium of criticism of Wikipedia 'or' Child pornography on Wikimedia Commons ', in addition to stories about hoaxes, mistakes and sabotage entries in the digital encyclopedia.

One of these latter cases, sent by Andreas Kolbe, one of the most active Wikipediocracy Publishers - Slashdot is the reporter EJ Dickson , of The Daily Dot , which account how he discovered a few days ago by accident that a false content that is inserted five years ago, in his crazy college days in the entry about Amelia Bedelia , not only had not been removed, but had been quoted by a teacher, "in countless blogs and reviews of the book" and even in an essay on Jesus and the Jews.

A place, in short, that, regardless of likes and dislikes, may well come to be aware of errors and manipulations-mostly in the English-text version of the encyclopedia, as well as other details related to it.

And the best: Wikipediocracy has its own Wikipedia entry : P
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Malcolm X


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