Critical views of Wikipedia/Links

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Critical/Independent

• The Wikipedia Review, a forum for debate about issues affecting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
• Wiki Pedia Is Not An Encyclopedia, from MeatballWiki
• Consumerium Development articles
• SourceWatch article
• Wikipedia Watch: http://www.geocities.com/progressivepix/wikiwatch/
• April 2005, Wikipedia: Yes or No? - Interesting "insider" views.
• Spring 2005, The Messiness of WikiDemocracy", M.R.M. Parrott on Wikipedia and Wikinfo
• Wikipedia Reputation and the Wemedia Project
• October 2004 Satirical article in The Onion (offline)
• Criticism on Kapitalism.net
• November 2004 "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia" Robert McHenry, a former Britannica editor, reviews Wikipedia at Tech Central Station
• December 2004, January 2005 "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism", Larry Sanger
• January 2005, "Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder", Slashdot discussion
• January 2005, "A Criticism of Wikipedia Now Exceeding a Scream", Jason Scott
• February 2005, "Journalistic Un-integrity"
• February 2005, "Not Even Voltaire Believed This One"
• April 2005, "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir" Part I - Part II, Larry Sanger
• May 2005, "Swastikpedia" - claims that Wikipedia is "shutting out those who actually know something about a certain topic" and "rewrit[ing] history as it sees fit".
• December 2005, "Wikipedia hit by surge in spoof articles", Simon Freeman, Times UK, and "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head", Jim Giles, Nature
• July 2006, "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?", The New Yorker
• September 2006, "The Hive", The Atlantic Monthly

Neutral/Introductory

• January 2003 Guardian Online: "Common Knowledge"
• August 2003 CNN Article about Wikipedia
• June 2004 The Economist: Beyond capitalism? discusses open source and Wikipedia
• October 2004 Wiki wars An article on Red Herring about contentious articles on Wikipedia
• October 2004
• Simon Waldman on Wikipedia's success

Hype/Groupthink

• Their version of this page
• Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great
• Wikipedia:Criticisms
• Wikipedia User Suggestions
• 1999 FSF endorsement of Nupedia (later updated to include Wikipedia)
• July 2001 Britannica or Nupedia? The Future of Free Encyclopedias - Larry Sanger's response to Britannica's decision to charge fees (July 2001).
• November 2001 RMS describes Wikipedia as "exciting news"
• September 2003 Science magazine's NetWatch section gives a favourable short review of "The People's Encyclopedia"

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