The social norms of Wikipedia don’t make it possible to freely discuss issues on-site. Editors with differing opinions and incentives can turn such discussions into battlegrounds, attack and ban those with less supporters. This resulted in the creation of independent criticism forums, where the stakes are not so high.
Mainstream media articles about Wikipedia community, diversity, gender bias, harassment
Discourse, Discord
- Wikimedia Space discourse – official forum at Wikimedia Space
- Wikimedia discord – for all Wikimedia projects – source
- Mediawiki discord – for technical discussions – source
- Wikipediocracy discord – criticism
Criticism blogs
- The Wiki Cabal – Dysklyver
- Gender Desk – Article about misogyny (cunt: “a term of endearment in the UK.”)
- Wikipediocracy blog
- Boycott Wikipedia – February 2015
- The Wikipedian – William Beutler
- T.D. Adler – The Devil’s Advocate
- Wikipedia Sucks! (And So Do Its Critics.) – Strelnikov
- Wikipedia, we have a problem – Rome Viharo
- This and that – Ditjes en datjes (Dutch) – Graaf Statler
Criticism forums
- Wikipediocracy forum – most active
- Wikipediasucks forum – home of CrowsNest and Graaf Statler
- Wikipedia review – dormant since ca. 2012
- WikiRev – Auggie’s forum down since August 2019
Reddit subs
- r/WikiInAction – Criticism since December 2014
- r/MeanwhileOnWikipedia – Criticism since July 2019
- r/wikipediamemes – since January 2019
- r/wikipedia – Interesting articles every day – since October 2012
Twitter tags
- #wikipedia
- #wikimedia
- #Wikimania
- #Wikimania2019
- #wmhack – Wikimedia Hackathlon
- #VisibleWikiWomen
- Women in Red
- Let Us Edit Wikipedia