July 2007
- Don’t Like Wikipedia So Much…? - Introduction to the new Wikipedia Review blog from Somey
- Googling in Firefox just got a whole lot better! - Google announce a Wikipedia free search capacity
- Inaccuracy: Are Journalists Missing the Big Picture? - The media's criticism of Wikipedia is often staid and lacking in insight, Wikipedia Review's unique vantage point means it can do better
- Now allowing multiple authors - Update on editing rights to the blog
- The English Language (Wikipedian Variant) - How Wikipedians misuse and twist language to gain advantages in disputes
- Gruff the Magic Redirect - Redirection craziness and crap software are the topic for Somey.
- Wikipedia Review in the news - SlimVirgin scandal hits the electronic media.
- Atomizing truth - Essay discussing how Wikipedia has the capacity to distort history.
- Should we feel sorry for the Jay-man? - Notoriously biased controller Jayjg quits Wikipedia
- Wikia and Wikipedia — “unconnected� - Gregory Kohs examines the close ties between the two Jimbo organizations Wikipedia insists are separate
- Wikipedia Scanner - Coverage of the Wiki Scanner tool which exposes edits where corporations and governments have fallen afoul of Wikipedia's labyrinthine Conflict Of Interest Policy. If they'd have registered, no one would know any better. Jimbo loved it, but wasn't this endorsed stalking?
- The tight-knit web of Wikimedia and Wikia - Follow up piece by Gregory Kohs on the connection, and the legal ramifications of Wikia's links with Wikipedia.
- Michael Moore on Wikipedia - Wikipedians attempt to police the internet by banning Michael Moore's website, for saying nasty things about right wing journalist and WP editor Ted Frank. BADSITES lurches out of control.
- The true history of Wikipedia - Who came up with the idea of Wikipedia? Wales? Sanger? or was it Ben Kovitz?
- Wikipedia’s Fundamental Flaw - Reviewer Pwok outlines some major Wikipedia problems.
- Ikkyu2’s essay - Former Wikipedian Ikkyu2 explains why editing on medical subjects became a chore and a farce.
- Don Murphy - another Living Person who doesn’t want a Wikipedia biography - Having been defamed by irate Wikipedians unhappy with his latest project, Hollywood producer Don Murphy wants out of the process but Wikipedians won't let him.
- Top 10 most viewed WR threads - Popular threads at the time of writing.
- Good sock hunting - While using alternative accounts can be a bannable offense for you, editors such as SlimVirgin are allowed to get away with it.
- Time to change public opinion of Wikipedia - Gregory Kohs tries to spread the word on Wikipedia's malpractices.
- WP:Give US Money and we’ll give you FREE Culture. - Reviewer FieryAngel takes on Wikipedia's efforts to "free information" at other people's expense.
- Ten Reasons Why The Arbitration Committee Doesn’t Matter - Point by point breakdown of Wikipedia's inadequate dispute resolution arbitration "council" by reviewer GlassBeadGame.
- Attacking the source - Wikipedia vs the Internet -- the rest of the internet start to fight back after a long spell at the mercy of Wikipedia's high google ranking.
- "We are the robots - Wir sind die Roboter†- Eric Moeller's casual disregard for biographical subjects, and Somey on BLP bully JoshuaZ
- Carolyn Doran : Timeline of events - Full history of the Carolyn Doran scandal.
- 2007 At The Review - “Wikipedia is a blog†- Reviewer Jonny Cache on Wikipedia's real existence.
- Mr. Wales goes to Washington - Jimbo Wales attends a Senate Committee hearing held by Joe Lieberman, meanwhile his site defames Lieberman at a relentless rate.
- Criticisms of Wikipedia - Gomi's compendium of criticisms neatly laid out. A must read.
- Wikia : Picks up where Wikipedia left off - Disasterous launch of Wikia Search.
- What is the life expectancy of Wikipedia? - Predictions from Daniel Brandt.
- Violating Copyright for the “good of the project†- Reviewer FieryAngel follow up piece on WP's serious Copyright problems.
- Wikipedia: Community Has Not Scaled - Reviewer Somey on wiki-psychology.
- 2007 At The Review - “The Unvarnished Truth, The Red Pill†- Reviewer JohnA sounds out a Wikipedia admin.
- Wikipedia’s Museum of Defamation - A trip to the BLP archives to discover samples of defamation against biography subjects.
- Wikipedia Ideology Project, Mark II - Herschelkrustofsky on the political ideology behind Wikipedia.
- Wikia’s “Spanking fetish†site and the use of photographs of children - -Wikipedia editors find pictures of their children uploaded in good faith transferred to Jimbo Wales's fetish site and placed among pornographic imagery. Despite the awful premise, some Wikipedians actually defend the practice.
- “A starkly one-sided attack on my personal and professional character†- Journalist and Wikipedia biography victim Ed O'Loughlin takes the site to task covering some key issues in the process.
- So what if it is broken? -Reviewers Dogbiscuit and Jonny Cache on Wikipedia's failing model.
- What Wordbomb Wants - Overstock.com representative Judd Bagley tries to find answers why Wikipedia was used as "a literal weapon" against himself and the company.
- Wikipedia: Putting Reliable Sources Out of Business - Coverage of two crucial stories concerning WP's proven unreliability, and yet its progress in making reliable works extinct in the marketplace.
- Sam Vaknin : Wikipedia’s Six Cardinal Sins - Writer Vaknin pens a critical breakdown of Wikipedia's flaws and allows us to reproduce it for the blog.
- When Wikipedia Attacks! - Roll call of outrageous linked attacks made by Wikipedia admins against Overstock.com representative Judd Bagley, who was trying to resolve a serious breach of their Conflict Of Interest policies.
- Worrying About Wheel-Warring in Our WikiWoe - Barry Kort on the antagonism and adversarial nature of Wikipedia disputes.
- Roger McNamee and Wikipedia : Here’s how it will unfold - Daniel Brandt predicts how big money will change Wikipedia.
- Rachel Marsden : Entering the Wikimatrix (aka Jimboworld) - Reproduction of a scathing address by Rachel Marsden against former lover Jimbo Wales, taken from Wales's talk page.
- Why an Encyclopedia is harder to write than Linux - Wikipedia calls itself an "Open Source project". Wikipedia Reviewers disagree.
- “So I am disgusted with Wikipedia.†- Academic Barry Kort (User:Moulton) and his difficulties overcoming Wikipedia's gross ethical lapses while trying to fix a biography of a colleague.
- The Truth According to Wikipedia - Video documentary covering the two opposing points of view on Wikipedia. Features Wales, a critical Larry Sanger and leading WP critic Andrew Keen.
- The Biographies of Living People problem - Doc Glasgow essay and analysis of Wikipedia's BLP timebomb.
- “It is truly a ‘Tyranny of the Ignorant.’†- A respected Physicist unleashes a blistering attack on Wikipedia's flawed process as Wikipedians fight to keep a piece of dubious Physics cruft.
- Meet The Metz : Ten of the best from The Register - Summary and links to the ten scorching articles by Register journalist Cade Metz published since December 2007.
- Blog out of comission.
- "Benign," he says - When challenged, Jimbo resorts to his default position that WP is "benign" - Somey explains otherwise.
- What we did on our summer vacation - Update on the status of the blog- which was put out of action during the Summer of 2008
- Love it or hate it - Greg Kohs examines the google hits for two phrases "I Love Wikipedia" vs "I hate Wikipedia".
- Wikipedia Vandalism Study - US Senators - The results of the seminal study undertaken by Gregory Kohs and other WReviewers into WP's defamatory vandalism problem.
- The Wikipedia Hierarchy - WP's class structure broken down point-by-point by Dan Tobias.
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