Wikipedia Watch

Wikipedia Watch is a website created by a book-indexer named Daniel Brandtcite news
url=http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5996542.html
publisher=ZDNet
title=Daniel Brandt interview
last=Terdiman
first=Daniel
date=2005-12-15
accessdate=2007-12-26] [cite web
url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/cyber-vandal-confesses-his-sins/2005/12/12/1134235996862.html
title=Caught red handed
publisher=Sydney Morning Herald
date=2005-12-12
accessdate=2007-12-26] on 13 October 2005. [cite web
title = Related Info for: wikipedia-watch.org | work = Alexa
url = http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=wikipedia-watch.org] The criticism site began after he read what he says was a falsecite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/business/media/11web.html
title=A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank
publisher=New York Times
last=Seelye
first=Katharine Q.
date=2005-12-11 |accessdate=2007-12-26] and unflattering Wikipedia entry about himself [cite web
url=http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=16057
title=The Wikipedia War: A recent high-profile dispute over the user-written encyclopedia's veracity has the site rethinking some of its rules.
first=Eric
last=Hellweg
publisher=Technology Review / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
date-2005-12-16
accessdate=2007-12-26] in order to warn users about the accuracy of information there. [cite web
url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29851187_ITM
title=Golfer Zoeller sues law firm for Wikipedia posting
first=Patrick
last=Danner
publisher=Miami Herald
date=2007-02-22
accessdate=2007-12-26] Daniel Terdiman of ZDNet described the site as "a sometimes paranoid, sometimes rational Web site that seeks to keep the project honest."

"The basic problem is that no one, neither the trustees of Wikimedia Foundation, nor the volunteers who are connected with Wikipedia, consider themselves responsible for the content," says Wikipedia Watch's Daniel Brandt. [cite web
url=http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Wikipedia_Becomes_Internet_Force__Faces_Crisis.html
title=Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, Faces Crisis
publisher=Agence France-Presse
date=2005-12-11
accessdate=2007-12-26]

The site has published logs from, and a search engine for, Wikipedia Internet Relay Chat channels [http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/findchat.html] and has listed dozens of examples of plagiarism by Wikipedia editors on the English version. [cite web |url=http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/psamples.html |title=Plagiarism by Wikipedia Editors |publisher=Wikipedia Watch |date=27 October 2006 |accessdate=2007-09-14] It also served as a clearing house of information during the Essjay controversy. [cite web
url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/09/HNwikiessjay_1.html
title=Wikipedia founder speaks on the Essjay controversy: Policy under discussion would require contributors to backup credential claims
first=Martyn
last=Williams
publisher=IDG News Service
date=2007-03-06
accessdate=2007-12-26] cite web
url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/wikipedia_fraud/
title=Bogus Wikipedia Prof. was blessed then promoted: The Counterfactual History Man
first=Andrew
last=Orlowski
publisher=The Register UK
date=2007-03-02
accessdate=2007-12-26]

In November 2006, the Associated Press reported Brandt's claim to have uncovered 142 examples of suspected plagiarism among the 12,000 Wikipedia articles he searched. He called for Wikipedia to conduct a thorough review of all its articles. According to the report, "Wikipedia editors have been reviewing the 142 articles in question and have declared a handful to be OK because copied passages came from the public domain. Editors found others where Wikipedia appeared to be the one plagiarised. But editors found extensive problems in several cases, with many still not yet fully checked."cite web
last = Jesdanun
first = Anick
title = Wikipedia Critic Finds Copied Passages
publisher = Associated Press
date = 2006-11-04
url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking-news/plagiarism-uncovered-on-wikipedia/2006/11/04/1162340080487.html
accessdate=2007-12-26]

ee also

*Seigenthaler controversy
*Essjay controversy
*Criticism of Wikipedia
*Wikipedia Review

References

External links

* [http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/ Official website]