The Wikipedia Review: A forum for discussion and criticism of Wikipedia
Wikipedia Review Op-Ed Pages

Welcome, Guest! ( Log In | Register )

2 Pages V  1 2 >  
 Reply to this topicStart new topic
> Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud (WebProNews)
Google News
post Wed 28th February 2007, 10:53pm
Post #1


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
WebProNews, KY - 25 minutes ago
The anonymous Wikipedia administrator cited extensively in an article about the online encyclopedia has been found to be less than he seemed. ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Wed 28th February 2007, 10:51pm
Post #2


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
The anonymous Wikipedia administrator cited extensively in an article about the online encyclopedia has been found to be less than he seemed. Essjay's user page on Wikipedia has this to say about contributing to the site: "I used to contribute a lot to theology articles; I don't anymore because I found that I could be of better use elsewhere. Should you run across a theology contribution ...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...-yorker-a-fraud
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Thu 1st March 2007, 1:25pm
Post #3


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Wikipedia 101: Check your sources
CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago
A few months back, The New Yorker published a long piece about online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This week, the magazine ran an editors' note detailing a ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Thu 1st March 2007, 1:48pm
Post #4


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
Blog: A few months back, The New Yorker published a long piece about online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This week, the magazine ran...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...-0-20&subj=news
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Thu 1st March 2007, 4:19pm
Post #5


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
THE NEW YORKER magazine has uncovered a bit of dirt on one the grand pooh-bahs of Wikipedia.

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...0qualifications
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Thu 1st March 2007, 3:35pm
Post #6


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Wikipedia 'expert' lied about qualifications
Inquirer, UK - 1 hour ago
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 01 March 2007, 15:26. THE NEW YORKER magazine has uncovered a bit of dirt on one the grand pooh-bahs of Wikipedia. ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Thu 1st March 2007, 8:36pm
Post #7


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
Hardly a month goes by without some new dustup involving Wikipedia — either because someone edited their own entry, or because someone bitched about not being able to edit their own entry, or because someone paid someone else to edit an entry. The latest brouhaha concerns a New Yorker piece that quoted a senior Wikipedia administrator named Essjay, a person described as a tenured professor ...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...-admin-brouhaha
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Wed 28th February 2007, 10:53pm
Post #8


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
WebProNews, KY - Feb 28, 2007
The anonymous Wikipedia administrator cited extensively in an article about the online encyclopedia has been found to be less than he seemed. ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Fri 2nd March 2007, 2:37am
Post #9


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Wikipedia: did one of its admins lie?
iTWire, Australia - 27 minutes ago
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt. Looks like one of Wikipedia’s admins has told some porkies about his qualifications, but instead of outrage it’s all been swept under ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Fri 2nd March 2007, 9:27am
Post #10


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=ZS3kpCTujoIJ&imgurl=www.bit-tech.net/news_images/wiki_manager_lied_about_background/article_img.jpg width=79 height=66 alt="" border=1>Wikipedia manager lied about background
bit-tech.net, UK - 8 minutes ago
As wonderful as Wikipedia can be as a source of information, it doesn't always have the greatest track record for credibility. Articles can be written from ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Fri 2nd March 2007, 9:27am
Post #11


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=ZS3kpCTujoIJ&imgurl=www.bit-tech.net/news_images/wiki_manager_lied_about_background/article_img.jpg width=79 height=66 alt="" border=1>Wikipedia manager lied about background
bit-tech.net, UK - 1 hour ago
As wonderful as Wikipedia can be as a source of information, it doesn't always have the greatest track record for credibility. Articles can be written from ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Fri 2nd March 2007, 6:10pm
Post #12


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Bogus Wikipedia Prof. was blessed then promoted
Register, UK - 1 hour ago
By Andrew Orlowski → More by this author. It's been a busy week for the pipeline that connects the consensus-reality wonderland of Wikipedia with Planet ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Fri 2nd March 2007, 6:20pm
Post #13


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
The Counterfactual History ManIt's been a busy week for the pipeline that connects the consensus-reality wonderland of Wikipedia with Planet Earth.…

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...then%20promoted
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Fri 2nd March 2007, 6:10pm
Post #14


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Bogus Wikipedia Prof. was blessed then promoted
Register, UK - 20 hours ago
By Andrew Orlowski → More by this author. It's been a busy week for the pipeline that connects the consensus-reality wonderland of Wikipedia with Planet ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Tue 6th March 2007, 6:46pm
Post #15


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Controversy Emanates Over Fake Editor On Wikipedia
All Headline News - 15 minutes ago
St. Petersburg, FL (AHN) - Collaborative Internet encyclopedia site, Wikipedia, has been hit by controversy after one of its editors used fake credentials. ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Newsvine
post Tue 6th March 2007, 8:57pm
Post #16


RSS Feed Reader
****

Group: Bots
Posts: 437
Joined: Fri 31st Mar 2006, 1:37am
Member No.: 89
In a blink, the wisdom of the crowd became the fury of the crowd.

In the past few days, contributors to Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, have turned against one of their own who was found to have created an elaborate false identity.



http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/0...inst-ex-editor-
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Google News
post Tue 6th March 2007, 8:20pm
Post #17


RSS Feed Reader
********

Group: Bots
Posts: 3,147
Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am
Member No.: 94

Wikipedia ‘Prof’ Is A Fraudster
The Statesman, India - 40 minutes ago
NEW YORK, March 6: Wikipedia has been thrown into one of its biggest crises after a twenty something student from Kentucky posed as a professor of religious ...
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Tue 6th March 2007, 8:10pm
Post #18


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
A volunteer Wikipedia editor who claimed to be a professor with doctorates in religion has resigned, admitting to being a 24-year-old Kentucky college ...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...06-024535-7990r
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Tue 6th March 2007, 9:02pm
Post #19


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
In the past few days, contributors to Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, have turned against one of their own who was found to have created an elaborate false identity.

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...siness/wiki.php
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
Yahoo! News
post Wed 7th March 2007, 2:33am
Post #20


RSS Feed
*********

Group: Bots
Posts: 5,317
Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am
Member No.: 193
Blog: The online free encyclopedia Wikipedia has asked one of its most prolific editors to resign after the revelation that he wasn't...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...-0-20&subj=news
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
 

2 Pages V  1 2 >
Reply to this topicStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

 

-   Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 25th 5 13, 2:31pm