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> The Essjay Media Watch, Split from "Who is Essjay?"
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post Thu 1st March 2007, 3:35pm
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This is a regularly updated post tracking all media coverage.

Mainstream newspapers:
  1. Boston Globe's Brainiac: Wiki-democracy (blog?)
Online news organizations:
  1. Radar Online: Ode to Wikipedia Riddled with Errors
  2. CNet: Wikipedia 101, Check your sources - 3 comments
  3. The Inquirer: Wikipedia 'expert' lied about qualifications
  4. Slashdot: Academic Credentials and Wikiality - 400+ comments
  5. iTWire: Wikipedia, did one of its admins lie?
  6. Chronicle of Higher Education: Wikipedia, did one of its admins lie? (magazine for academics)
  7. The Register: Bogus Wikipedia Prof. was blessed then promoted
  8. BitTech News: Wikipedia manager lied about background (blog?)
  9. Tech Dirt: Does The Mistaken Identity Of A Wikipedia Editor Reflect Worse On Wikipedia... Or The New Yorker? (blog?)
Social aggregators:
  1. TechMeme: What The New Yorker Article Fraud Tells Us About Wikipedia - 7 blog posts
  2. Digg: Jimmy Wales defends a massive liar - 1000+ diggs (front page), 80+ comments
Blog coverage: (red= noted Wikipedians/Former Wikipedians) (blue = prominent commentator)
  1. Rough Type: Never trust an avatar - 5 comments
  2. Valleywag: Wikipedia expert fabricates his own bio - 2 comments
  3. Freakonomics: Wikipedia Oops - 22 comments, 1 repost
  4. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Wikipedia New Yorker Article Misrepresentation Exposed - 5 comments
  5. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: What The New Yorker Article Fraud Tells Us About Wikipedia - 19 comments
  6. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Jimmy Wales Defends Wikipedia New Yorker Article Fabricator - 2 commends
  7. Hacking Cough: On Wikipedia, nobody's sure you're a prof - 2 commends
  8. MetaFilter: On Wikipedia, no one knows you're a 24-year-old with no credentials - 63 comments
  9. XODP: Respected Wikipedian Lies to the Press - 2 comments
  10. Nathan: Wikipedia expert fabricates his own bio
  11. yesh omrim: Fact checking a fact checker
  12. Bizsolutionsplus: Trusting Wikipedia Could Make You Stupid - 2 comments
  13. Dave Copeland: A new kind of Anthem
  14. Rex Hammock: A Wikipedia oops? Or, a New Yorker oops? - 1 commend
  15. Regret the Error: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a 24 year-old with no advanced degrees
  16. WebProNews: Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
  17. Mathew Ingram: Jimmy Wales is wrong about Essjay
  18. TechNudge: Wikid, Wikidpedia
  19. BlogWorldExpo: Wikipedia Founder Has “No Problem” with Fraud - 4 comments
  20. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Wikipedia Firmly Supports your Right to Identity Fraud
  21. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Our registration policy - how we check identities
  22. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Larry Sanger proven right about Wikipedia
  23. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: More on certain fraudulent Wikipedians
  24. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Why Jimmy Wales must dismiss Ryan Jordan from the ArbCom
  25. Cyde Weys Musings: How to deal with liars on Wikipedia?
  26. Cyde Weys Musings: More fallout over the Essjay scandal
  27. Musings of a Chicagoan: Wikireality and Reality Amusingly Collide
  28. Kottke: He's not a doctor, but he plays one on the web
  29. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Wikipedia Admin Loses His Religion
  30. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Wikipedia editor faces consequences
  31. SecretLondon: Wikipedia bullshitters
  32. infrogmation: I don't like this
  33. Memestreams: Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
  34. Applied Epistemology: The 24-year-old who cried "I'm a professor of theology"
  35. Maverick Philosopher: The Reliability of Wikipedia
  36. Jason Scott's ASCII: J.S. on Essjay (topic of a talk at upcoming notacon)
  37. Tech Liberation Front: Wikipedia Doesn’t Make You Coffee Either
  38. Will of the People: For Better or For Woes
  39. The Dog Killer: Fakeipedia
  40. DRLer: 学术身份谎言与维基百科
  41. MKemp's Balance: Wikipedia and Groucho Marx
  42. 300km North of Moscow: Wikipedia credentials put to the test
  43. Ζειν Ακινδύνως: Wikipedia, μια ακίνδυνη ιστορία
  44. Complete Geek: Pray for Essjay
  45. Phineas Gage Fan Club: The Good, the Bad, and the Wikipedia
March 3 blog coverage:
  1. Andrew Lih: Wikipedia Crisis in 60 Seconds
  2. Wikipedia Weekly: Essjay Special Espisode (Podcast)
  3. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Jimbo Responds on Essjay
  4. Cyde Weys Musings: Jimbo Wales Asks Essjay to Resign
  5. Rough Type: Head Wikipedian
  6. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Jimmy Wales Latest Response on the Essjay Situation
  7. XOPD: Credentialists and impostors
  8. Digital Rights Manifesto: Seth Finkelstein Hammers the Point Home
  9. WikiP: Jimmy Wales Has Diminished Weirdness of Essjay Scandal
  10. About Theology: Academic Credentials and Wikiality
  11. OR Blog: I Guess I should write about Ryan
  12. Planet KH: Truth as a Great Lie
  13. Slashdot: Wikipedia's Wales Reverses Decision on Problem Admin
  14. Facts Dat Are Interesting: Essjay OMG
  15. Jeff Milner: Jason Scott on Wikipedia Editor Essjay
  16. Andrew Lih: Essjay's Third Transgression
  17. Sassafrassin: The Peter Principle In Wiki Land
  18. WikiP: Andrew Lih Underscores Severity of the essjay case
  19. Nathan: Essjay's Third Transgression
  20. Gary Kirk: Essjay
March 4 blog coverage:
  1. Freakonomics: A Wikipedia Reversal
  2. Tales of Drudgery and Boredom: Retired
  3. IM2 | OQP: support in this matter was fully based on a lack of knowledge
  4. SecretLondon: Wikipedia update
  5. Angela Beesley: A Sad Loss
  6. XODP: Closure still lacking in Essjay scandal
  7. http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/105656.html
  8. DIGG: Citizendium slams Jimmy Wales apology of Essjay fraud sysop
  9. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Essjay quits
  10. Burning Bird: Wikipedia Walking
  11. Grant's Rants: The new impermanence (slow return)
  12. TechLiberation: The Bizarre Chip on Nick Carr’s Shoulder
  13. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Jimmy Wales Reverses On New Yorker False Credentials, Asks Resignation
  14. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Wikipedia's Value System
  15. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: New Yorker Article Fabricator Retires From Wikipedia
  16. WikiP: Essjay has retired from Wikipedia
  17. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: New Yorker Wikipedia "Essjay" Fraud Aftermath
  18. Ultra Black Shadow: Essjay You're Fired
  19. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Jimmy Wales invites admin success
  20. Cyde Weys Musings: Essjay Quits Wikipedia
  21. Joe Duck: Sex, lies, videotape, and Wikipedia
  22. Lux et Veritas: Help wanted?
  23. Jason Scott's ASCII: Another Essjay Essay
  24. OmegaWiki: About Reputation and Education
  25. Science Roll: Overview of the recent serious wikipedia scandal
  26. Messages from the Outhouse: Wikipedia wallows in self pity and denial after resignation of admin
  27. What Really Happened: Wikipedia: Jimbo Wales backpeddles from EssJay scandal (link only)
March 5 coverage:
  1. New York Times: A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side <-- WOOT.
  2. DIGG: EssJay Resigns from Wikipedia
  3. http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/106157.html
  4. ZigZigger: Wikilinks
  5. Rex Hammock: Jimbo Wales decides faux-PhD should resign his “positions of trust” on Wikipedia
  6. Out of Egypt: the moral bankruptcy of wikipedia
  7. Freedom to Tinker: Fact check, The New Yorker versus Wikipedia
  8. German Wikipedia Courier: Wikipedia und der falsche Professor (Wikipedia Signpost Equivalent)

NOTE: There is way too much media coverage to list here now that the story exploded into the mainstream. More coverage than you want can be found here:

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