Detecting and preventing hoaxes in wikis

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This page is emerging from a lengthy discussion on Breaching Experiments dealing with possibilities of research in the wiki environment. While planning an experiment aimed to infiltrate such a material might be highly controversial, there is a (hopefully) general agreement that preventing incorrect information to appear on any site (e.g. Wikiversity or Wikipedia) is useful.

## List for now...

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Here are some pages that might form the core of the page. Feel free to add/rework:

* w:Reliability of Wikipedia
* w:Criticism of Wikipedia
* w:WikiScanner
* W:Wikipedia biography controversy
* w:USA Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia
* w:List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
* Wikipedia Unmasked
* Wikipedia and the art of censorship
* w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-03-08/News and notes#DYK featured fake BLP \- the problem is very real...
* here is the full story \- this is actually a case study from the "author" describing the whole process
* w:Edward Owens \- a case of a WP hoax designed by a group of students

## See also

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### On Wikiversity

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* Nature of wikis
* Wikisphere \- not sure if this belongs here, but might contain some useful stuff
* Breaching experiments
* Wikimedia Ethics/Response testing on WMF projects

### Other projects

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* Hoax
* Fictitious entry
* Pseudoscience
* Scientific misconduct
* w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
* Wiki Science/Self Healing