Misplaced Pages

Misplaced Pages Review

The Misplaced Pages Review logo, which uses a white hat
Type of site	Internet watchdog, Internet forum and blog
Available in	English, German
Revenue	Accepts donations
URL	wikipediareview.com
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional (required to post)
Launched	Original site: November 2005; 19 years ago (2005-11) Current site: February 19, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-02-19)
Current status	Online

Misplaced Pages Review was an Internet forum and blog for the discussion of Wikimedia Foundation projects, in particular the content and conflicts of Misplaced Pages. Misplaced Pages Review sought to act as a watchdog website, scrutinizing Misplaced Pages and reporting on its flaws. It provided an independent forum to discuss Misplaced Pages editors and their influence on Misplaced Pages content. At its peak, participants included current Misplaced Pages editors, former Misplaced Pages editors, users banned from Misplaced Pages, and people who had never edited. The last post was on 31 May 2012.

Background

The site was founded in November 2005 by "Igor Alexander", and hosted by ProBoards. On 19 February 2006 it moved to its own domain name using Invision Power Board software. The site required registration using a valid e-mail address to post and blacklisted email providers that allowed anonymity so as to discourage the operation of multiple accounts by a single user.

Misplaced Pages Review was cited for its discussion of wiki-editing concepts and its participation in the evaluation of the Palo Alto Research Company's WikiDashboard.

Commentary

Misplaced Pages Review is not a conspiracy, a team-building exercise, a role-playing game, or an experiment in collusion. It is not meant as a resource or training ground for those who would instill fear and misery in others. It does not exist to corrupt, but to expose corruption; it does not exist to tear down institutions, but to expose the ways in which institutions are torn down; it does not exist to hate, but is meant to expose hate in others. To expose these things is not evil. It is not a monolithic entity, nor the sum of its parts. Like-mindedness does not imply singularity of purpose; respect for the rights of one group does not imply disrespect for the rights of another. It is not intended to be predictable, consistent, or dull.

Imagine a world in which human beings are not user accounts, are not programmable, and are not mere words on a display screen. That's what we're doing...

— Statement made when the site was out of service in 2008, Misplaced Pages Review

Seth Finkelstein wrote in The Guardian that Misplaced Pages Review has provided a focal point for investigation into Misplaced Pages-related matters such as the "Essjay controversy". Cade Metz, writing for The Register, credited Misplaced Pages Review with the discovery of a private mailing list that led to the resignation of a Misplaced Pages administrator; he also wrote that a Misplaced Pages proposal called "BADSITES" intended to ban the mention of Misplaced Pages Review and similar sites on Misplaced Pages. The Independent noted that "allegations against certain administrators came to a head on a site called Misplaced Pages Review, where people debate the administrators' actions." The Irish technology website Silicon Republic suggested visiting Misplaced Pages Review in order to "follow disputes, discussions, editors and general bureaucracy on Misplaced Pages". Philip Coppens used posts made on Misplaced Pages Review to help construct a report, published in Nexus, on WikiScanner and allegations that intelligence agencies had been using Misplaced Pages to spread disinformation.

Content and structure

Misplaced Pages Review's publicly accessible forums are broken up into four general topic areas:

1. Forum information;
2. Wikimedia-oriented discussion, which contains subforums focusing on editors, the Misplaced Pages bureaucracy, meta discussion, articles and general Wikimedia-focused topics not fitting elsewhere;
3. Media forums containing a news feed and discussion about news and blogs featuring Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia; and
4. Off topic, non-Wikimedia related discussion.

References

1. ^ "Original Misplaced Pages Review on Proboards". Misplaced Pages Review. 2005-11-25. Archived from the original on 2006-01-17. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
2. ^ "First post on wikipediareview.com". Misplaced Pages Review. 2006-02-19. Archived from the original on 2006-05-31.
3. Mahadevan, Jeremy (2006-03-05). "Not everything on Misplaced Pages is fact". New Straits Times. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
4. "L'édition de référence libre et collaborative : le cas de Misplaced Pages" (in French). Institut national de recherche pédagogique. April 2006. p. 7. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
5. LaPlante, Alice (2006-07-14). "Spawn Of Misplaced Pages". InformationWeek. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
6. Shankbone, David (June 2008). "Nobody's safe in cyberspace". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
7. "The Misplaced Pages Review". wikipediareview.com. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
8. "Second post on wikipediareview.com". Misplaced Pages Review. Was The Misplaced Pages Review created by Igor Alexander? Yes. Is The Misplaced Pages Review run by Igor Alexander? No.
9. "Info for new registrants". Misplaced Pages Review. 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
10. Ed H. Chi; Peter Pirolli; Bongwon Suh; Aniket Kittur; Bryan Pendleton; Todd Mytkowicz (2008). "Augmented social cognition: understanding social foraging and social sensemaking" (PDF). Palo Alto Research Center. p. 5. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
11. Bongwon Suh; Ed H. Chi; Aniket Kittur; Bryan A. Pendleton (2008). Lifting the veil: improving accountability and social transparency in Misplaced Pages with wikidashboard. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. General chairs: Mary Czerwinski and Arnie Lund; program chair: Desney Tan. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1037–1040. ISBN 978-1-60558-011-1. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
12. Chi, E. H.; Suh, B.; Kittur, A. (2008-04-06). Providing social transparency through visualizations in Misplaced Pages. CHI 2008, Florence, Italy. Social Data Analysis Workshop. S2CID 2303183. Retrieved 2024-02-15 – via ResearchGate.
13. "Misplaced Pages Review out-of-service page". Misplaced Pages Review. 2008-06-24. Archived from the original on 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
14. Finkelstein, Seth (2007-12-06). "Inside, Misplaced Pages is more like a sweatshop than Santa's workshop". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
15. "Who is Essjay?, Probably he's Ryan Jordan". Misplaced Pages Review. 2006-07-26.
16. Metz, Cade (2007-12-04). "Secret mailing list rocks Misplaced Pages". The Register. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
17. Marsden, Rhodri (2007-12-06). "Cyberclinic: Who are the editors of Misplaced Pages?". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
18. Boran, Marie (2007-12-04). "Misplaced Pages under fire for 'editorial elite'". Silicon Republic. Archived from the original on 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
19. Coppens, Philip (October–November 2007). "The Truths and Lies of WikiWorld". Nexus. pp. 11–15, 77. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
20. "Misplaced Pages Review". Retrieved 9 June 2010.

External links

• Official website
• "Old Misplaced Pages Review site". Archived from the original on February 20, 2006. Retrieved July 2, 2008.

• Critics of Misplaced Pages
• History of Misplaced Pages
• Internet forums
• Internet properties established in 2005