Wikitruth

Wikitruth is a website critical of the online encyclopedia project . It was created on March 20, 2006, and its final posting - a farewell notice announcing the mothballing of the site - was put up on February 5, 2009.
The site argues that there are fundamental problems with the structure of . It highlights the reported actions and statements of prominent Wikimedia Foundation members, such as Jimmy Wales, and probes the concepts of vandalism, censorship of articles on , and other aspects of .
Contributors and software
In a posting dated December 22, 2006, a Wikitruth story stated that then-current administrators did contribute to Wikitruth and that "some exhibits we have here can only be done by administrators."
Wikitruth ran its site on the MediaWiki software, but readers could contact the editors only through e-mail; Wikitruth also promised to contact editors who placed the words tell the wikitruth in articles or discussion pages.
, the server is still running, but editing is restricted to registered users and account creation is disabled; hence, the site is read-only.
Publicity
The first major media attention to Wikitruth was given on April 13, 2006, in an article in the British general-interest newspaper The Guardian by Andrew Orlowski, the San Francisco bureau chief for The Register, a British technology news and opinion website.

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