Wikipedia/External Links
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- Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner and consider archiving the URLs behind the links you provide. See also related web sources.
- Wikipedia - English-language version, including the Wikipedia Signpost, its community-edited online newspaper
Founders
- Jimmy Wales - personal blog of Jimmy Wales ("free knowledge for free minds")
- Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia userpage
- Larry Sanger - personal website
Utilities
- Article Traffic Stats - displays traffic per time for individual articles
- Trending Topics - list pages that were most frequently accessed over the last month
- WikiScanner - database of 'anonymous' edits on Wikipedia, linking them to various organizations by IP address
- Wiki Rage - multilingual site displaying articles with the most recent edits
Criticism and controversy
- Wikipedia Watch - controversial, critical site by Daniel Brandt
- Wiki Truth - wiki edited by Wikipedians critical of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia Review - forums for critical discussion of Wikipedia
- A false Wikipedia 'biography' - USA Today editorial by John Seigenthaler on his experience of being accused via a Wikipedia article of involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- Andrew Keen - blog by the author of The Cult of the Amateur, a book which included criticism of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge — an article (from April 12, 2010) by Edwin Black on Wikipedia, expertise, vandalism and Google's search engine results pages
- Quote: "The Wikipedia concept, if turned right side up, could be a boon to mankind. Allowing named and credentialed scholars from around the world to collaborate in their area of expertise could revolutionize the speedy advancement of knowledge."