Wikipedia/External Links

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• Wikipedia - English-language version, including the Wikipedia Signpost, its community-edited online newspaper

Founders

• Jimmy Wales - personal blog of Jimmy Wales ("free knowledge for free minds")
• Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia userpage
• Larry Sanger - personal website

Utilities

• Article Traffic Stats - displays traffic per time for individual articles
• Trending Topics - list pages that were most frequently accessed over the last month
• WikiScanner - database of 'anonymous' edits on Wikipedia, linking them to various organizations by IP address
• Wiki Rage - multilingual site displaying articles with the most recent edits

Assessment

• Aniket Kittur, Bongwon Suh, Bryan A. Pendleton, Ed H. Chi (2007). He Says, She Says: Conflict and Coordination in Wikipedia. CHI 2007, April 28–May 3, 2007, San Jose, California, USA.. ACM. Retrieved on 2012-05-29. "...at the global level, conflict and coordination costs in Wikipedia are growing. Specifically, direct work (on articles) is decreasing, while indirect work such as discussion, procedure, user coordination, and maintenance activity (such as reverts and anti-vandalism) is increasing."
• David A. Hoffman, Salil K Mehra (August 26, 2009). Wikitruth through Wikiorder. Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper. Retrieved on 2011-10-20. Also in Emory Law Journal, 59 (2010). "The data show that Wiki-dispute resolution ignores the content of user disputes, instead focusing on user conduct."
• Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, Peter Pirolli (2009). The Singularity is Not Near: Slowing Growth of Wikipedia. WikiSym’09, October 25–27, 2009, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.. ACM. Retrieved on 2012-05-29. An overview of editor activity on WP.
• Wikipedia search on website: PARC, A Xerox company. Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated. Retrieved on 2012-05-29. A link to various publications concerning academic studies of Wikipedia. For the most part, these articles can be Google searched by title to find on-line pdf versions.
• Editor survey 2011. Wikimedia (October 15, 2011). Retrieved on 2012-06-15. First-ever Wikimedia survey of Wikipedia editors based upon answers to a questionnaire. The executive summary says there are 81,000 active editors in a month, but Wikimedia's own data shows the maximum number of active editors on the English WP peaked in April 2007 at 33,695 and it has fallen considerably since, reaching 25,337 in May 2012.

Criticism and controversy

• List of Websites Critical of Wikipedia. Wikipedia Review. Retrieved on 2011-10-25. Some old links to criticisms of WP.
• Larry Sanger (Dec 31, 2004). Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism. Kuro5hin. Retrieved on 2011-11-01. A discussion of problems inherent in the structure of WP.
• Wikipedia Watch - controversial, critical site by Daniel Brandt
• Wiki Truth - wiki edited by Wikipedians critical of Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Review - forums for critical discussion of Wikipedia
• A false Wikipedia 'biography' - USA Today editorial by John Seigenthaler on his experience of being accused via a Wikipedia article of involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy An extended version is found here.
• Andrew Keen - blog by the author of The cult of the amateur: how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values, a book which included criticism of Wikipedia. A recent article is: Andrew Keen (October 25, 2011). Wikipedia and the Internet grow up. The Telegraph. Retrieved on 2011-10-25. "The Wikipedia revolution was built upon the experiment of free crowdsourced content." "What is becoming increasingly clear is that the supposedly revolutionary orthodoxies of internet openness and collaboration are often excuses for invasive, dishonest and sometimes even criminal behaviour."
• Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge — an article (from April 12, 2010) by Edwin Black on Wikipedia, expertise, vandalism and Google's search engine results pages

Quote: "The Wikipedia concept, if turned right side up, could be a boon to mankind. Allowing named and credentialed scholars from around the world to collaborate in their area of expertise could revolutionize the speedy advancement of knowledge." Edwin Black (April 12, 2010). Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge. The Cutting Edge. Retrieved on 2011-10-25.

• Timothy Messer-Kruse (Feb 17, 2012). The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved on 2012-02-14. details the efforts of Timothy Messer-Kruse to correct the treatment on WP of the 1886 trials related to the Haymarket riot. He ran into objections based on "verifiability vs. truth" , "majority vs. minority views", "primary vs. secondary sources", and "original research", all of which were employed to obstruct an authoritative account on WP.