Jimmy Wales shames PR editors
By Gregory Kohs . Some companies, like General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and Apple, spend many millions of dollars in promotional advertising campaigns. Other companies, like Rolls-Royce, Krispy...
View ArticleWikipedia’s Ketel of public relations
by Gregory Kohs Surely readers are tiring by now of the news stories identifying people or companies “caught” editing their own Wikipedia articles. These “investigative” reports seem to appear like...
View ArticleWhy do people contribute to Wikipedia?
By Andreas Kolbe . The other day, a contributor to question-and-answer site Quora asked: “Why did people create huge, comprehensive websites like Wikipedia for free?” Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales,...
View ArticleBillionaire Aubrey McClendon’s Paid Wikipedia Articles
By Stanistani (with help from other Wikipediocracy members) Visionary and controversial oil billionaire Aubrey McClendon passed away a few days ago under unusual circumstances. Aubrey McClendon Image...
View ArticleFull Measure covers The Dark Side of Wikipedia
By William Burns Yesterday on Sharyl Attkisson’s show Full Measure, Wikipediocracy’s own Greg Kohs explained how editors with an agenda warp and distort what readers see on the world’s most popular...
View ArticleI Got Fired For Editing Wikipedia
By Mike Wood “Come directly to my office when you get in.” That was the text I received from my boss while making my 45 minute trip into work. The text wasn’t a surprise as I had received the same...
View ArticleDiversity Conference at National Archives not so ‘Open’
By Gregory Kohs The National Archives will be the site of a controversial “Diversity Conference” hosted jointly by the Wikimedia DC organization and the federally-funded Archives. The June 17-18...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Wikitribune? The Press Knows.
Collected and edited by Zoloft Jimmy WalesImage: Wikimedia Commons Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Jimmy Wales has an idea, a budget and says he’ll change the world again…...
View ArticleWikipedia is Nuts
By Cornpone T. McGillicutty I’m just a simple man, and one of the things I like to do is set a while on my back porch and watch the squirrels run up and down the maple tree. Maybe I’ll even whittle a...
View ArticleWhat can fact checkers learn from Wikipedia — How not to do things, perhaps?
By Kingsindian [First in a two-part series.] “Fake News” became one of the big issues during and after the 2016 US Presidential election. The concept itself is vigorously contested, with arguments...
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