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White House Communications Directors (and friends) lasso Wikipedia
by Gregory Kohs The White House — Image Credit: Matt H. Wade – CC BY-SA 3.0 If watching the staffing changes taking place in the Donald Trump White House has made you queasy as if from a carnival ride,...
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What can fact checkers learn from Wikipedia — how not to do things, perhaps?...
by Kingsindian [Second in a two-part series.] In Part 1, we looked at how the mechanisms behind Wikipedia are totally inadequate for the purpose of fighting “fake news”. But perhaps, as the...
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The strange case of hostage Wikipedian Joshua Boyle
By Gregory Kohs Joshua Boyle The mainstream news lit up earlier this month when a Canadian man and his American wife and their children were rescued by a Pakistani military team working on an American...
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Wikipedia’s struggles with harassment and criticism: past and present
by Kingsindian Introduction Early in October, Buzzfeed published a expose, titled “Here’s How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream”, based on leaked emails...
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Wikipedia’s treatment of academics: shallow, distorted and sometimes mean
by Kingsindian Jacob Barnett is 20 years old. At age 2, he was diagnosed with autism. By age 3, he was showing signs of precocious talents in mathematics and a formidable memory. By age 8, he was...
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Somehow Wikipedia Never Learns
The Spoonkymonkey Story by John Doe Number One For some, Wikipedia can actually be more fun than a barrel of these creatures. Way back in 2013, Wikipediocracy members investigated the activities of a...
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