Misplaced Pages

Editing

Almost all visitors may edit Misplaced Pages's articles, and registered users can create new ones and have their changes instantly displayed. Misplaced Pages is built on the expectation that collaboration among users will improve articles over time, in much the same way that open-source software develops. Further, this real-time, collaborative model allows rapid updating of existing topics and introduction of new topics. The authors need not have any expertise or formal qualifications in the subjects which they edit, and users are warned that their contributions may be "edited mercilessly and redistributed at will" by anyone who so wishes. Its articles are not controlled by any particular user or editorial group. Decision-making on the content and editorial policies of Misplaced Pages is instead done by consensus and, occasionally, by vote. Jimmy Wales retains final judgement on Misplaced Pages policies and user guidelines.

By the nature of its openness, "edit wars" and prolonged disputes often occur when editors do not agree. A few members of its community have explained its editing process as a collaborative work, a "socially Darwinian evolutionary process", but this is not generally considered by the community to be an accurate self-description. Articles are always subject to editing, unless the article is protected for a short time due to vandalism or revert wars; therefore, Misplaced Pages does not declare any article finished. Some users attempt to enter malicious or amusing but irrelevant information, but changes of this sort are normally removed quickly.

Regular users often maintain a "watchlist" of articles of interest to them, so that they are immediately shown which of these articles have changed since their last log in. This allows monitoring of daily editing to prevent false information and spam, and also to keep up with other editors' views, or updates, of the subjects on the watchlist.

Because of the wiki-principle, most edits of Misplaced Pages articles are kept within an edit history which can be viewed by everyone. Exceptions include whole articles which are deleted (their histories are no longer available to anyone other than Misplaced Pages administrators), and revisions of articles which may contain libellous statements, copyright violations, or other content which may incur legal liability or which may be highly detrimental to the project. As a result, Misplaced Pages is the first major encyclopedia where everybody can see how an article evolved over time and whether the content of an article was ever controversial. Other than the exceptions noted above, all controversial standpoints which were once voiced and afterwards deleted - and even simple vandalism - remain visible for everyone, providing additional information about the article's topic and its degree of controversy, and adding the dimension of time to every article.

History

Misplaced Pages began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts through a formal process. Nupedia was founded on 9 March 2000 under the ownership of Bomis, Inc, a Web portal company. Its principal figures were Jimmy Wales, Bomis CEO, and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Misplaced Pages. Nupedia was described by Sanger as differing from existing encyclopedias in being open content; not having size limitations, as it was on the Internet; and being free of bias, due to its public nature and potentially broad base of contributors. Nupedia had a seven-step review process by appointed subject-area experts, but later came to be viewed as too slow for producing a limited number of articles. Funded by Bomis, there were initial plans to recoup its investment by the use of advertisements. It was licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License initially, switching to the GNU Free Documentation License prior to Misplaced Pages's founding at the urging of Richard Stallman.

On January 10 2001, Larry Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki alongside Nupedia. Under the subject "Let's make a wiki", he wrote:

No, this is not an indecent proposal. It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. Jimmy Wales thinks that many people might find the idea objectionable, but I think not. (…) As to Nupedia's use of a wiki, this is the ULTIMATE "open" and simple format for developing content. We have occasionally bandied about ideas for simpler, more open projects to either replace or supplement Nupedia. It seems to me wikis can be implemented practically instantly, need very little maintenance, and in general are very low-risk. They're also a potentially great source for content. So there's little downside, as far as I can see.

Misplaced Pages was formally launched on 15 January 2001, as a single English-language edition at wikipedia.com, and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. It had been, from 10 January, a feature of Nupedia.com in which the public could write articles that could be incorporated into Nupedia after review. It was relaunched off-site after Nupedia's Advisory Board of subject experts disapproved of its production model. Misplaced Pages thereafter operated as a standalone project without control from Nupedia. Its policy of "neutral point-of-view" was codified in its initial months, though it is similar to Nupedia's earlier "nonbias" policy. There were otherwise few rules initially. Misplaced Pages gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and search engine indexing. It grew to approximately 20,000 articles among 18 language editions by the end of its first year. It had 26 language editions by the end of 2002, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the end of 2004. Nupedia and Misplaced Pages coexisted until the former's servers went down, permanently, in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Misplaced Pages.

Wales and Sanger attribute the concept of using a wiki to Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb or Portland Pattern Repository. Wales mentioned that he heard the concept first from Jeremy Rosenfeld, an employee of Bomis who showed him the same wiki, in December 2000, but it was after Sanger heard of its existence from Ben Kovitz, a regular at this wiki, in January 2001, and proposed a creation of a wiki for Nupedia to Wales that Misplaced Pages's history started. Under a similar concept of free content, though not wiki production, the GNUPedia project existed alongside Nupedia early in its history. It subsequently became inactive and its creator, free-software figure Richard Stallman, lent his support to Misplaced Pages.

Citing fear of commercial advertising and lack of control in a perceived English-centric Misplaced Pages, users of the Spanish Misplaced Pages forked from Misplaced Pages to create the Enciclopedia Libre in February 2002. Later that year, Wales announced that Misplaced Pages would not display advertisements, and moved its website to wikipedia.org. Projects have since forked from Misplaced Pages's content for editorial reasons, such as Wikinfo, which abandoned "neutral point-of-view" in favor of multiple complementary articles written from a "sympathetic point-of-view".

From Misplaced Pages and Nupedia, the Wikimedia Foundation was created on June 20 2003. Misplaced Pages and its sister projects thereafter operated under this non-profit organization. Misplaced Pages's first sister project, "In Memoriam: September 11 Wiki" had been created in October 2002 to detail the September 11, 2001 attacks; Wiktionary, a dictionary project, was launched in December 2002; Wikiquote, a collection of quotes, a week after Wikimedia launched; and Wikibooks, a collection of collaboratively-written free books, the next month. Wikimedia has since started a number of other projects, detailed below.

Misplaced Pages has traditionally measured its status by article count. In its first two years, it grew at a few hundred or fewer new articles per day; by 2004, this had accelerated to 1,000 to 3,000 per day across all editions. The English Misplaced Pages reached a 100,000 article milestone on January 22 2003. Misplaced Pages reached its one millionth article among 105 language editions on September 20, 2004, while the English edition alone reached its 500,000th on March 18 2005.

The Wikimedia Foundation applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Misplaced Pages® on September 17 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16 2004 and in the European Union on January 20 2005. Technically a servicemark, the scope of the mark is for: "Provision of information in the field of general encyclopedic knowledge via the Internet".

There are currently plans to license the usage of the Misplaced Pages trademark for some products like books or DVDs. The German Misplaced Pages will be printed in its entirety by Directmedia, in 100 volumes of 800 pages each. Publication will begin in October 2006 and finish in 2010.

On February 27 2006, Misplaced Pages reached the one million registered users mark. On March 1 2006 the English Misplaced Pages reached the one million article mark (the millionth article being Jordanhill railway station).

Software and hardware

Misplaced Pages is run by MediaWiki free software on a cluster of dedicated servers located in Florida and four other locations around the world. MediaWiki is Phase III of the program's software. Originally, Misplaced Pages ran on UseModWiki by Clifford Adams (Phase I). At first it required CamelCase for links; later it was also possible to use double brackets. Misplaced Pages began running on a PHP wiki engine with a MySQL database in January 2002. This software, Phase II, was written specifically for the Misplaced Pages project by Magnus Manske. Several rounds of modifications were made to improve performance in response to increased demand. Ultimately, the software was rewritten again, this time by Lee Daniel Crocker. Instituted in July 2002, this Phase III software was called MediaWiki. It was licensed under the GNU General Public License and used by all Wikimedia projects.

Misplaced Pages was served from a single server until 2003, when the server setup was expanded into a distributed multitier architecture. In January 2005, the project ran on 39 dedicated servers located in Florida. This configuration included a single master database server running MySQL, multiple slave database servers, 21 web servers running the Apache software, and seven Squid cache servers. By September 2005, its server cluster had grown to around 100 servers in four locations around the world.

Page requests are processed by first passing to a front-end layer of Squid caching servers. Requests that cannot be served from the Squid cache are sent to two load-balancing servers running the Perlbal software, which then pass the request to one of the Apache web servers for page-rendering from the database. The web servers serve pages as requested, performing page rendering for all the Wikipedias. To increase speed further, rendered pages for anonymous users are cached in a filesystem until invalidated, allowing page rendering to be skipped entirely for most common page accesses. Wikimedia has begun building a global network of caching servers with the addition of three such servers in France. A new Dutch cluster is also online now. In spite of all this, Misplaced Pages page load times remain quite variable. The ongoing status of Misplaced Pages's website is posted by users at a status page on OpenFacts.

Funding

Misplaced Pages is funded through the Wikimedia Foundation. Its 4th Quarter 2005 costs were $321,000 with hardware making up almost 60% of the budget.

Bomis, an online advertising company that hosts mostly adult-oriented web-rings, played a significant part in the early development of Misplaced Pages.

Evaluations

Misplaced Pages's claimed status as an encyclopedia has been increasingly controversial as it has gained prominence. This is seen in articles and discussion venues both within Misplaced Pages and elsewhere. Information related to evaluations of Misplaced Pages, including individual opinions, quality control, and awards are discussed below.

General criticism

Criticism of Misplaced Pages has increased with its prominence. Critics of Misplaced Pages include Misplaced Pages editors themselves, ex-editors, representatives of other encyclopedias, and even subjects of the articles. Notable criticisms include that its open nature makes Misplaced Pages unauthoritative and unreliable, that Misplaced Pages exhibits systemic bias and that the group dynamics of its community are hindering its goals.

Misplaced Pages is criticised on the following issues:

• Anti-elitism as a weakness
• Systemic bias in coverage
• Systemic bias in perspective
• Difficulty of fact checking
• Use of dubious sources
• Exposure to vandals
• Privacy concerns
• Flame wars
• Fanatics and special interests
• Censorship

It must be noted that many university lecturers discourage their students from using any encyclopedia as a reference in academic work, preferring primary sources instead.

Quality

Misplaced Pages has been both praised and criticized for being open to editing by anyone. Proponents contend that open editing improves quality over time while critics allege that non-expert editing undermines quality.

Misplaced Pages has been criticized for a perceived lack of reliability, comprehensiveness, and authority. It is considered to have no or limited utility as a reference work among many librarians, academics, and the editors of more formally written encyclopedias. A website called Misplaced Pages Watch has been created to denounce Misplaced Pages as having "…a massive, unearned influence on what passes for reliable information."

Some argue that allowing anyone to edit makes Misplaced Pages an unreliable work. Misplaced Pages contains no formal peer review process for fact-checking, and the editors themselves may not be well-versed in the topics they write about. In a 2004 interview with The Guardian, librarian Philip Bradley said that he would not use Misplaced Pages and is "not aware of a single librarian who would. The main problem is the lack of authority. With printed publications, the publishers have to ensure that their data is reliable, as their livelihood depends on it. But with something like this, all that goes out the window" (Waldman, 2004). Similarly, Encyclopædia Britannica's executive editor, Ted Pappas, was quoted in The Guardian as saying: "The premise of Misplaced Pages is that continuous improvement will lead to perfection. That premise is completely unproven." On October 24, 2005, The Guardian published an article "Can you trust Misplaced Pages?" where a group of experts critically reviewed entries for their fields. Discussing Misplaced Pages as an academic source, Danah Boyd said in 2005 that "t will never be an encyclopedia, but it will contain extensive knowledge that is quite valuable for different purposes".

Academic circles have not been exclusively dismissive of Misplaced Pages as a reference. Misplaced Pages articles have been referenced in "enhanced perspectives" provided on-line in Science. The first of these perspectives to provide a hyperlink to Misplaced Pages was "A White Collar Protein Senses Blue Light" (Linden, 2002), and dozens of enhanced perspectives have provided such links since then. However, these links are offered as background sources for the reader, not as sources used by the writer, and the "enhanced perspectives" are not intended to serve as reference material themselves.

In a 2004 piece called "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia," former Britannica editor Robert McHenry criticized the wiki approach, writing,

owever closely a Misplaced Pages article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler… The user who visits Misplaced Pages to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.

In response to this criticism, proposals have been made to provide various forms of provenance for material in Misplaced Pages articles; see for example Misplaced Pages:Provenance. The idea is to provide source provenance on each interval of text in an article and temporal provenance as to its vintage. In this way a reader can know "who has used the facilities before him" and how long the community has had to process the information in an article to provide calibration on the "sense of security." However, these proposals for provenance are quite controversial (see Misplaced Pages talk:Provenance). Aaron Krowne wrote a rebuttal article in which he criticized McHenry's methods, and labeled them "FUD," the marketing technique of "fear, uncertainty, and doubt."

Former Nupedia editor-in-chief Larry Sanger criticized Misplaced Pages in late 2004 for having, according to Sanger, an "anti-elitist" philosophy of active contempt for expertise.

Misplaced Pages's editing process assumes that exposing an article to many users will result in accuracy. Referencing Linus' law of open-source development, Sanger stated earlier: "Given enough eyeballs, all errors are shallow." Technology figure Joi Ito wrote on Misplaced Pages's authority, "lthough it depends a bit on the field, the question is whether something is more likely to be true coming from a source whose resume sounds authoritative or a source that has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people (with the ability to comment) and has survived." Conversely, in an informal test of Misplaced Pages's ability to detect misinformation, its author remarked that its process "isn't really a fact-checking mechanism so much as a voting mechanism", and that material which did not appear "blatantly false" may be accepted as true.

Misplaced Pages has been accused of deficiencies in comprehensiveness because of its voluntary nature, and of reflecting the systemic biases of its contributors. Encyclopædia Britannica editor-in-chief Dale Hoiberg has argued that "people write of things they're interested in, and so many subjects don't get covered; and news events get covered in great detail. The entry on Hurricane Frances was five times the length of that on Chinese art, and the entry on Coronation Street was twice as long as the article on Tony Blair." (As of December 2005, this is no longer the case.) Former Nupedia editor-in-chief Larry Sanger stated in 2004, "when it comes to relatively specialized topics (outside of the interests of most of the contributors), the project's credibility is very uneven."

The English-language website also suffers from frequent timeouts, server errors and occasional downtime due to heavy user traffic. These problems have had a negative impact on Misplaced Pages's desired image as a fast and reliable source of information.

It has been praised for, as a wiki, allowing articles to be updated or created in response to current events. For example, the then-new article on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on its English edition was cited often by the press shortly after the incident. Its editors have also argued that, as a website, Misplaced Pages is able to include articles on a greater number of subjects than print encyclopedias may.

Microsoft Encarta has started to solicit comments from readers in attempt to improve the accuracy and timeliness of its encyclopedia. Encarta Feedback allows any user to propose revisions for review by their staff.

The German computing magazine c't performed a comparison of Brockhaus Premium, Microsoft Encarta, and Misplaced Pages in October 2004: Experts evaluated 66 articles in various fields. In overall score, Misplaced Pages was rated 3.6 out of 5 points ("B-"), Brockhaus Premium 3.3, and Microsoft Encarta 3.1. In an analysis of online encyclopedias, Indiana University professors Emigh and Herring wrote that "Misplaced Pages improves on traditional information sources, especially for the content areas in which it is strong, such as technology and current events.". The journal Nature reported in 2005 that science articles in Misplaced Pages were comparable in accuracy to those in Encyclopedia Britannica. Misplaced Pages had an average of four mistakes per article; Britannica contained three. Of eight "serious errors" found — including misinterpretations of important concepts — four came from each source.. On March 24, 2006, Britannica provided a rebuttal labeling the study "fatally flawed". .

At the end of 2005, controversy erupted after journalist John Seigenthaler Sr. found that his biography had been written largely as a hoax about Seigenthaler. This led to the decision to restrict the ability to start articles to registered users.

Community

The Misplaced Pages community consists of users who are proportionally few, but highly active. Emigh and Herring argue that "a few active users, when acting in concert with established norms within an open editing system, can achieve ultimate control over the content produced within the system, literally erasing diversity, controversy, and inconsistency, and homogenizing contributors' voices." Editors on Wikinfo, a fork of Misplaced Pages, similarly argue that new or controversial editors to Misplaced Pages are often unjustly labeled "trolls" or "problem users" and blocked from editing. Its community has also been criticized for responding to complaints regarding an article's quality by advising the complainer to fix the article.

In a page on researching with Misplaced Pages, its authors argue that Misplaced Pages is valuable for being a social community. That is, authors can be asked to defend or clarify their work, and disputes are readily seen. Misplaced Pages editions also often contain reference desks in which the community answers questions.

Awards

Misplaced Pages won two major awards in May 2004: The first was a Golden Nica for Digital Communities, awarded by Prix Ars Electronica; this came with a 10,000 euro grant and an invitation to present at the PAE Cyberarts Festival in Austria later that year. The second was a Judges' Webby award for the "community" category. Misplaced Pages was also nominated for a "Best Practices" Webby. In September 2004, the Japanese Misplaced Pages was awarded a Web Creation Award from the Japan Advertisers Association. This award, normally given to individuals for great contributions to the Web in Japanese, was accepted by a long-standing contributor on behalf of the project.

Misplaced Pages has received plaudits from sources including BBC News, Washington Post, The Economist, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Science, The Guardian, Chicago Sun-Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, The Financial Times, Time Magazine, Irish Times, Reader's Digest and The Daily Telegraph.

Authors

During January 2005, Misplaced Pages had about 13,000 or more users who made at least five edits that month; 9,000 of these active users worked on its three largest language editions. A more active group of about 3,000 users made more than 100 edits per month, over half of these users having worked in the three largest editions. According to Wikimedia, one-quarter of Misplaced Pages's traffic comes from users without accounts, who are less likely to be editors.

Maintenance tasks are performed by a group of volunteer developers, stewards, bureaucrats, and administrators, which number in the hundreds. Administrators are the largest such group, privileged with the ability to prevent articles from being edited, delete articles, or block users from editing in accordance with community policy. Many users have been temporarily or permanently blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. Vandalism or the minor infraction of policies may result in a warning or temporary block, while long-term or permanent blocks for prolonged and serious infractions are given by Jimmy Wales or, on its English edition, an elected Arbitration Committee.

Former Nupedia editor-in-chief Larry Sanger has said that having the GFDL license as a "guarantee of freedom is a strong motivation to work on a 💕." In a study of Misplaced Pages as a community, Economics professor Andrea Ciffolilli argued that the low transaction costs of participating in wiki software create a catalyst for collaborative development, and that a "creative construction" approach encourages participation. Misplaced Pages has been viewed as a social experiment in anarchy or democracy. Its founder has replied that it is not intended as one, though that is a consequence.

Alternative spellings

Template:SpecialChars-section Here is a list of alternative spellings for Misplaced Pages, according to the language editions:

See also

• Internet encyclopedia project
• List of encyclopedias
• Open Site
• Uncyclopedia, parody of Misplaced Pages

References

1. See plots at "Visits per day", Misplaced Pages Statistics, 1 January 2005
2. Jimmy Wales, "Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia", 8 March 2005, <wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org>
3. "Misplaced Pages as a press source 2005", Misplaced Pages (28 March 2005)
4. "C-38", LEGISINFO (28 March 2005)
5. Misplaced Pages as a source
6. ^ "Complete list of language Wikipedias available", Meta-Wiki (29 January 2006)
7. "All languages", Misplaced Pages statistics, 21 March 2005
8. For example, "Translation into English," Misplaced Pages. (9 March 2005)
9. "Power structure", Meta-Wiki, 10:55 4 April 2005
10. "Edit war", Misplaced Pages (26 March 2005)
11. "Misplaced Pages sociology", Meta-Wiki, 23:30 24 March 2005
12. ^ Larry Sanger, "Q & A about Nupedia", Nupedia, March 2000
13. Sanger, Larry (January 10, 2001). "Let's make a wiki". Internet Archive. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
14. Sanger, Larry (January 17, 2001). "Misplaced Pages is up!". Internet Archive. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
15. ^ Sanger, Larry (18 April 2005). "The Early History of Nupedia and Misplaced Pages: A Memoir". {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |org= ignored (help)
16. "Multilingual statistics", Misplaced Pages, 30 March 2005
17. Jimmy Wales, "Re: Sanger's memoirs", 20 April 2005,<wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org>
18. Stallman, Richard (1999). "The 💕 Project". {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |org= ignored (help)
19. Jimmy Wales: "Announcing Wikimedia Foundation", 20 June 2003, <wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org>
20. "Misplaced Pages, the 💕, reaches its 100,000th article", Wikimedia Foundation, January 21 2003
21. "Misplaced Pages Reaches One Million Articles", Wikimedia Foundation, 20 September 2004
22. "Misplaced Pages Publishes 500,000th English Article", Wikimedia Foundation, March 18 2005
23. Nair, Vipin (December 5, 2005). "Growing on volunteer power". Business Line.
24. "Budget/2005". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2006-03-11.
25. ^ Simon Waldman, "Who knows?", The Guardian, 26 October 2004.
26. Danah Boyd, "Academia and Misplaced Pages", Many-to-Many, 4 January 2005.
27. Robert McHenry, "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia", Tech Central Station, 15 November 2004.
28. Aaron Krowne, "The FUD-based Encyclopedia", Free Software Magazine, 1 March 2005.
29. ^ Larry Sanger, "Why Misplaced Pages Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism", Kuro5hin, 31 December 2004.
30. Larry Sanger, "Misplaced Pages is wide open. Why is it growing so fast? Why isn't it full of nonsense?", Kuro5hin, 24 September 2001.
31. Joi Ito, "Misplaced Pages attacked by ignorant reporter", Joi Ito's Web, 29 August 2004.
32. Anonymous blogger, "How Authoritative is Misplaced Pages", Dispatches from the Frozen North, 4 September 2004.
33. "Misplaced Pages:Replies to common objections", Misplaced Pages, 22:53 13 April 2005.
34. "Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2005-04-11/Encarta editing", Misplaced Pages, 11 April 2005.
35. Michael Kurzidim: Wissenswettstreit. Die kostenlose Misplaced Pages tritt gegen die Marktführer Encarta und Brockhaus an, in: c't 21/2004, 4 October 2004, S. 132-139.
36. William Emigh and Susan C. Herring, "Collaborative Authoring on the Web: A Genre Analysis of Online Encyclopedias", paper presented at the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004.
37. "Misplaced Pages survives research test". BBC News. BBC. December 15, 2005.
38. "Journal Nature study "fatally flawed" says Britannica". WikiNews. Misplaced Pages Foundation. March 24, 2006.
39. "Critical views of Misplaced Pages", Wikinfo, 07:28 30 March 2005.
40. Andrew Orlowski, "Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book", The Register, 23 July 2004.
41. "Misplaced Pages:Researching with Misplaced Pages", Misplaced Pages (28 March 2005).
42. "Trophy Box", Meta-Wiki (28 March 2005).
43. Paragraph's statistics taken from "Active wikipedians" (Misplaced Pages Statistics, 21 March 2005).
44. "Misplaced Pages", Meta-Wiki, 08:02 30 March 2005.
45. Larry Sanger, "Britannica or Nupedia? The Future of 💕s", Kuro5hin, 25 July 2001.
46. Andrea Ciffolilli, "Phantom authority, self-selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Misplaced Pages", First Monday December 2003.
47. Jimmy Wales, "Re: Illegitimate block", 26 January 2005, <wikien-l@wikimedia.org>.

Further reading

• Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kushal Dave, "Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow Visualizations", CHI 2004 April 24 - April 29 2004. Preliminary report "History Flow" available on the IBM website.
• Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages in academic studies
• Misplaced Pages:Introduction
• Misplaced Pages:FAQ
• Misplaced Pages:Press releases
• Misplaced Pages:Press coverage
• Misplaced Pages:Why Misplaced Pages is not so great
• Misplaced Pages:Replies to common objections
• Statistics
• Open Directory Project: Misplaced Pages
• OpenFacts: Copies of Misplaced Pages content
• SourceWatch: Misplaced Pages

External links

2. Part 2

• wikipedia.org, multi-lingual portal
• en.wikipedia.org, English language edition
• Meta-Wiki, policy-related and technical discussions regarding Wikimedia
• Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Misplaced Pages
• Larry Sanger on the origins of Misplaced Pages from Slashdot and Open Sources 2.0
• Larry Sanger about the origins of Misplaced Pages
• BBC article regarding Misplaced Pages flaws
• Guardian UK article
• Interview with Misplaced Pages founder Jimmy Wales," nPost, November 1 2005.
• Misplaced Pages Signpost, newspaper about the English Misplaced Pages
• Misplaced Pages in the news. Aggregated news and rss-feed. (Multilingual)
• Why Misplaced Pages will survive the storm, from News.com
• Nature comparison between Misplaced Pages and Britannica
• Britannica's response to Nature's study on Misplaced Pages
• The Misplaced Pages Review, a forum for discussion about Misplaced Pages and other Wikimedia projects as well as issues affecting them.
• Misplaced Pages Watch, a website offering an unfavorable view of Misplaced Pages
• Critical Review Of Misplaced Pages
• Can Misplaced Pages Survive Its Own Success?, Wharton School
• Who Owns Your Misplaced Pages Biography?, The Register
• The Wiki Watch
• Uncyclopedia and Wickerpedia, Misplaced Pages parodies

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