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For critical examination of Wikipedia by Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:External peer review/Nature December 2005 (40 science articles) and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-10-31/Guardian rates articles (7 articles of general interest).

Article on Wikipedia in the Harvard Educational Review

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Fall 2009 Issue of the Harvard Educational Review

High School Research and Critical Literacy: Social Studies With and Despite Wikipedia by Houman Harouni

http://www.hepg.org/her/abstract/742

"Drawing on experiences in his social studies classroom, Houman Harouni evaluates both the challenges and possibilities of helping high school students develop critical research skills. The author describes how he used Wikipedia to design classroom activities that address issues of authorship, neutrality, and reliability in information gathering. The online encyclopedia is often lamented by teachers, scholars, and librarians, but its widespread use necessitates a new approach to teaching research. In describing the experience, Harouni concludes that teaching research skills in the contemporary context requires ongoing observations of the research strategies and practices students already employ as well as the active engagement of student interest and background knowledge."

List of reporters

I think it would be a good idea to make a list of reporters who like to write about the Wikipedia controversy. Is there such a list? QuackGuru (talk) 21:36, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean to put this list into the article or for internal usage? In the first case we need sources which say so. Now,
  1. Andrew Orlowski, one of the earlier critics of Wikipedia. [1]
  2. ...

Staszek Lem (talk) 01:02, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

...Oops, here we go: Category:Critics of Wikipedia.

References

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I want to create a list here on the talk page of reporters who are interested in writing new articles about the current controversy. The list should be of reporters who have written a controversial article on Wikipedia within the last 12 months. QuackGuru (talk) 01:55, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hijiri88, I have a better idea than reporting the sock account. Do you know any reporters to contact? QuackGuru (talk) 23:43, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, and I don't think that's a good idea. I don't like when the mainstream media report "leaks" from people who are dissatisfied with their Wikipedia experience. They always say things like "User X, who has occasionally been blocked from editing, said Y about her". I can't imagine what they would say about me when I get people on-wiki saying dickish things like that on a near-daily basis, and if I did that to someone else I lose the moral high ground when they try to do it to me. If you don't like Wikipedia, just leave. It's voluntary and you're free to leave whenever you want. Don't try to burn everything down on your way out. Hijiri 88 (やや) 00:05, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This is not one editor. This is multiple editors adding WP:OR and/or other nonsense. You would not believe everything that happened. An entire page was deleted and replaced with nonsense. If you want me to spill my guts then you could tell me which reporters to contact. QuackGuru (talk) 00:13, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I think that there is a good, well-balanced site (or perhaps I should say, what, prima facie, seems a good site) about whether we can trust Wikipedia called the bubble chamber. I shall try to add it to the external links if I manage to find out what site it is. There is also a website from the Daily Telegraph dated 2015 which debatably could go here, in which some one points towards jokes make on an article on a swimming stroke.81.140.1.129 (talk) 21:01, 4 March 2017 (UTC) This website would be www.telegraph.co.uk and tells us that according to the Wikipedia article on the butterfly stroke, the origins of this stroke are contested - it was either first swam in 1933 or thirty years earlier by Jack Stephens, but Jack Stephens is only a fictitious character who had been inserted in the article on the butterfly stroke as a joke. Carltonio (talk) 09:30, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK, the site is thebubblechamber.org/2011/03/can-we-trust-wikipedia. 81.140.1.129 (talk) 21:04, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Telegraph article, based on the Telegraph from April 2015, is on the website www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/11539950/How_much_can_we_trust_Wikipedia?Carltonio (talk) 20:52, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

sfnm?

  • Could we please use {{sfnm}} to get rid of "gender bias and sexism.[92][93][94][95][96][97] " and " igher-quality discourse anywhere."[118][119][120][121][122]" and "The Guardian's story.[127][128][129][130][131] " etc? Tks  Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 13:13, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a page for complaints about Wikipedia by Wikipedians?

I'm sure there are plenty of people right on Wikipedia who have criticism about this site. One of the issues I have is that there are pages that have issues due to Wikipedians having agendas. This of course slants a page's facts. I'm sure there are many pages that have this issue in fact. Criticism of Wikipedia like any organization also comes from within. NaturalEquality (talk) 00:43, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]