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	<title>Wikipedia Review: Opinions and Editorials</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Meet The Metz : Ten of the best from The Register</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between December 2007 and March 2008, journalist Cade Metz penned a series of articles for The Register,  the British technology focused online newspaper. These articles exposed the dark side of Wikipedia that we Reviewers see on a daily basis.  Some of the pieces are vital exposés of Wikipedia&#8217;s cultish internal activities, others raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It is truly a &#8216;Tyranny of the Ignorant.&#8217;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080418/it-is-truly-a-tyranny-of-the-ignorant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another accomplished academic fell afoul of Jimbo Wales&#8217;s &#8216;Cultural Revolution&#8217; this week. This latest calumny involved the usual Star Chamber trial and subsequent banishment imposed by anonymous figures lacking published credentials. This week&#8217;s victim was a well-known mathematical physicist, a Director of a major research group and Professor at a major University.
His efforts to clarify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biographies of Living People problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia Reviewer DocGlasgow wrote this essay on Wikipedia last week, attempting to address the major problems facing Wikipedia&#8217;s treatment of Biographies of Living People (BLPs). These articles are at the front line of Wikipedia&#8217;s culture of defamation and anonymous revenge. DocGlasgow&#8217;s full study can be found here.

DocGlasgow : To solve or mitigate a problem, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth According to Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080409/the-truth-according-to-wikipedia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Director IJsbrand van Veelen goes looking for the truth behind Wikipedia. In this film, &#8220;Wikipedians,&#8221; the folks who spend their days writing and editing articles, explain how the online encyclopedia works. In addition, the parties involved discuss Wikipedia&#8217;s ethics and quality of content. It quickly becomes clear that there are camps of both believers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;So I am disgusted with Wikipedia.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080405/so-i-am-disgusted-with-wikipedia/</link>
		<comments>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080405/so-i-am-disgusted-with-wikipedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Review</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous Wikipedia Review editorials have exposed Wikipedia&#8217;s failure to apply basic ethical standards when writing about living people, and its capacity to cause serious harm to the reputations of the subjects of their biographies. This post reviews the efforts of Barry Kort (Wikipedia user name: Moulton), an academic who is currently a Visiting Scientist at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why an Encyclopedia is harder to write than Linux</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080331/why-an-encyclopedia-is-harder-to-write-than-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In amongst the many and varied discussions, users of our forums make insightful observations which deserve highlighting. One such post  is in response to this comment by Wolfe:
&#8220;If people can write a functional open source operating system, there is no reason why they can&#8217;t write an encyclopaedia.&#8221;
UseOnceAndDestroy writes:
This comparison keeps turning up, and while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Marsden : Entering the Wikimatrix (aka Jimboworld)</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080323/rachel-marsden-entering-the-wikimatrix-aka-jimboworld/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Review</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On 23 March 2008, Canadian journalist Rachel Marsden posted the below to her user space on Wikipedia, she posted the same thing to Jimbo Wales&#8217;s talk page. Marsden had conducted a brief affair with the Wiki God-King, who then ordered changes to her biography on her behalf. In early March, Wales posted a long personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger McNamee and Wikipedia : Here&#8217;s how it will unfold</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080319/roger-mcnamee-and-wikipedia-heres-how-it-will-unfold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was submitted to the forum by The Review&#8217;s resident Wikipedia Watcher Daniel Brandt. The post was in response to a piece in The Register by Cade Metz researching Roger McNamee, the major donor to the WikiMedia Foundation. 
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Daniel Brandt : The New York Times yesterday quoted Florence:

Florence Nibart-Devouard, the chairwoman of the Wikimedia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worrying About Wheel-Warring in Our WikiWoe</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080314/worrying-about-wheel-warring-in-our-wikiwoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was submitted to the forum by The Review&#8217;s resident Arbiter of the Absurd, Moulton .
Worrying About Wheel-Warring in Our WikiWoe
Wheel-Warring in WikiDrama, like political give and take everywhere, follows an oft-observed model. The model presented here applies in general to all WikiDrama at any level of intensity, from a simple reversion to clamorous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Wikipedia Attacks!</title>
		<link>http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080310/when-wikipedia-attacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we focused on the plight of Overstock.com representative Judd Bagley, and his efforts to have Wikipedia acknowledge that feuding journalist Gary Weiss was using a number of aliases to &#8220;control&#8221; articles related to the company.
Other media sources have examined how Wikipedia came to be used as, in Bagley&#8217;s words, &#8220;a literal weapon against me [...]]]></description>
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