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July 2007- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070712/hello-world/ - Introduction to the new Wikipedia Review blog from Somey
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070714/googling-in-firefox-just-got-a-whole-lot-better/ - Google announce a Wikipedia free search capacity
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070716/inaccuracy-are-journalists-missing-the-big-picture/ - The media's criticism of Wikipedia is often staid and lacking in insight, Wikipedia Review's unique vantage point means it can do better
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070716/now-allowing-multiple-authors/ - Update on editing rights to the blog
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070719/the-english-language-wikipedian-variant/ - How Wikipedians misuse and twist language to gain advantages in disputes
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070726/gruff/ - Redirection craziness and crap software are the topic for Somey.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070727/wikipedia-review-in-the-news/ - SlimVirgin scandal hits the electronic media.
August 2007- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070807/atomising-truth/ - Essay discussing how Wikipedia has the capacity to distort history.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070812/should-we-feel-sorry-for-the-jay-man/ - Notoriously biased controller Jayjg quits Wikipedia
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070813/wikia-and-wikipedia-unconnected/ - Gregory Kohs examines the close ties between the two Jimbo organizations Wikipedia insists are separate
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070815/wikipedia-scanner/ - Coverage of the Wiki Scanner tool which exposes edits where corporations and governments have fallen afoul of Wikipedia's labyrinthine Conflict Of Interest Policy. If they'd have registered, no one would know any better. Jimbo loved it, but wasn't this endorsed stalking?
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070821/the-tight-knit-web-of-wikimedia-and-wikia/ - Follow up piece by Gregory Kohs on the connection, and the legal ramifications of Wikia's links with Wikipedia.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070824/michael-moore-on-wikipedia/ - Wikipedians attempt to police the internet by banning Michael Moore's website, for saying nasty things about right wing journalist and WP editor Ted Frank. BADSITES lurches out of control.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070827/the-true-history-of-wikipedia/ - Who came up with the idea of Wikipedia? Wales? Sanger? or was it Ben Kovitz?
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070828/wikipedias-fundamental-flaw/ - Reviewer Pwok outlines some major Wikipedia problems.
September 2007- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070901/ikkyu2s-essay/
- Former Wikipedian Ikkyu2 explains why editing on medical subjects became a chore and a farce.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070907/don-murphy-another-living-person-who-doesnt-want-a-wikipedia-biography/
- Having been defamed by irate Wikipedians unhappy with his latest project, Hollywood producer Don Murphy wants out of the process but Wikipedians won't let him.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070924/top-10-most-viewed-wr-threads/
- Popular threads at the time of writing.
October 2007- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071019/good-suck-hunting/
- While using alternative accounts can be a bannable offense for you, editors such as SlimVirgin are allowed to get away with it.
November 2007- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071127/time-to-change-public-opinion-of-wikipedia/
- Gregory Kohs tries to spread the word on Wikipedia's malpractices.
December 2007- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071212/wpgive-us-money-and-well-give-you-free-culture-another-fund-raising-ploy/. - Reviewer FieryAngel takes on Wikipedia's efforts to "free information" at other people's expense.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071215/ten-reasons-why-the-arbitration-committee-doesnt-matter/ - Point by point breakdown of Wikipedia's inadequate dispute resolution arbitration "council" by reviewer GlassBeadGame.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071216/attacking-the-source/ - Wikipedia vs the Internet -- the rest of the internet start to fight back after a long spell at the mercy of Wikipedia's high google ranking.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071219/we-are-the-robots-wir-sind-die-roboter/ - Eric Moeller's casual disregard for biographical subjects, and Somey on BLP bully JoshuaZ
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071220/carolyn-doran-timeline-of-events/ - Full history of the Carolyn Doran scandal.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071227/2007-at-the-review-wikipedia-is-a-blog/ - Reviewer Jonny Cache on Wikipedia's real existence.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071231/mr-wales-goes-to-washington/ - Jimbo Wales attends a Senate Committee hearing held by Joe Lieberman, meanwhile his site defames Lieberman at a relentless rate.
January 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080104/criticisms-of-wikipedia/ - Gomi's compendium of criticisms neatly laid out. A must read.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080107/wikia-picks-up-where-wikipedia-left-off/ - Disasterous launch of Wikia Search.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080110/what-is-the-life-expectancy-of-wikipedia/ - Predictions from Daniel Brandt.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080114/violating-copyright-for-the-good-of-the-project/ - Reviewer FieryAngel follow up piece on WP's serious Copyright problems.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080117/wikipedia-community-has-not-scaled/ - Reviewer Somey on wiki-psychology.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080121/2007-at-the-review-the-unvarnished-truth-the-red-pill/ - Reviewer JohnA sounds out a Wikipedia admin.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080125/wikipedias-museum-of-defamation/ - A trip to the BLP archives to discover samples of defamation against biography subjects.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080127/wikipedia-ideology-project-mark-ii/ - Herschelkrustofsky on the political ideology behind Wikipedia.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080130/wikias-spanking-fetish-site-and-the-use-of-photographs-of-children/ - -Wikipedia editors find pictures of their children uploaded in good faith transferred to Jimbo Wales's fetish site and placed among pornographic imagery. Despite the awful premise, some Wikipedians actually defend the practice.
February 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080206/a-starkly-one-sided-attack-on-my-personal-and-professional-character/ - Journalist and Wikipedia biography victim Ed O'Loughlin takes the site to task covering some key issues in the process.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080211/so-what-if-it-is-broken/ -Reviewers Dogbiscuit and Jonny Cache on Wikipedia's failing model.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080215/what-wordbomb-wants/ - Overstock.com representative Judd Bagley tries to find answers why Wikipedia was used as "a literal weapon" against himself and the company.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080224/wikipedia-putting-reliable-sources-out-of-business/ - Coverage of two crucial stories concerning WP's proven unreliability, and yet its progress in making reliable works extinct in the marketplace.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080229/sam-vaknin-wikipedias-six-cardinal-sins/ - Writer Vaknin pens a critical breakdown of Wikipedia's flaws and allows us to reproduce it for the blog.
March 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080310/when-wikipedia-attacks/ - Roll call of outrageous linked attacks made by Wikipedia admins against Overstock.com representative Judd Bagley, who was trying to resolve a serious breach of their Conflict Of Interest policies.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080314/worrying-about-wheel-warring-in-our-wikiwoe/ - Barry Kort on the antagonism and adversarial nature of Wikipedia disputes.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080319/roger-mcnamee-and-wikipedia-heres-how-it-will-unfold/ - Daniel Brandt predicts how big money will change Wikipedia.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080323/rachel-marsden-entering-the-wikimatrix-aka-jimboworld/ - Reproduction of a scathing address by Rachel Marsden against former lover Jimbo Wales, taken from Wales's talk page.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080331/why-an-encyclopedia-is-harder-to-write-than-linux/ - Wikipedia calls itself an "Open Source project". Wikipedia Reviewers disagree.
April 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080405/so-i-am-disgusted-with-wikipedia/ - Academic Barry Kort (User:Moulton) and his difficulties overcoming Wikipedia's gross ethical lapses while trying to fix a biography of a colleague.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080409/the-truth-according-to-wikipedia/ - Video documentary covering the two opposing points of view on Wikipedia. Features Wales, a critical Larry Sanger and leading WP critic Andrew Keen.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080415/the-biographies-of-living-people-problem/ - Doc Glasgow essay and analysis of Wikipedia's BLP timebomb.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080418/it-is-truly-a-tyranny-of-the-ignorant/ - A respected Physicist unleashes a blistering attack on Wikipedia's flawed process as Wikipedians fight to keep a piece of dubious Physics cruft.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080423/meet-the-metz-ten-of-the-best-from-the-register/ - Summary and links to the ten scorching articles by Register journalist Cade Metz published since December 2007.
May 2008 - July 2008August 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080810/benign-he-says/
- When challenged, Jimbo resorts to his default position that WP is "benign" - Somey explains otherwise.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080803/what-did-i-miss/
- Update on the status of the blog- which was put out of action during the Summer of 2008
September 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080918/love-it-or-hate-it/
- Greg Kohs examines the google hits for two phrases "I Love Wikipedia" vs "I hate Wikipedia".
October 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20081005/wikipedia-vandalism-study-us-senators/
- The results of the seminal study undertaken by Gregory Kohs and other WReviewers into WP's defamatory vandalism problem.
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20081027/the-wikipedia-hierachy/
- WP's class structure broken down point-by-point by Dan Tobias.
November 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20081106/181/
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20081117/the-wikipedia-review-awards-pageants/
December 2008- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090101/december-at-the-review/
January 2009- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090112/great-moments-in-wikipedia-history/
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090204/january-at-the-review/
March 2009April 2009- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090408/co-floundering-in-a-sea-of-mud/
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090409/sympathy-for-the-sanger/
May 2009- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090526/wikipedia-vs-skynet-how-to-tell-them-apart/
June 2009- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090613/now-thats-tragic/
December 2009- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20091211/its-the-casting-director-lee-dennison-story/
- http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20091230/ron-livingston-wikipedia-google-and-the-sourness-of-grapes/[/b]