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Gregory Kohs was Examiner.com's only citizen journalist assigned to exclusively cover Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Kohs held this role from July 2010 until July 2016, when Examiner closed down due to financial insolvency. Over that span of time, he published 90 different articles which collectively received over 80,000 page views. Archived copies of these articles are kept here for posterity.
[[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Gregory Kohs]] was Examiner.com's only citizen journalist assigned to exclusively cover Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Kohs held this role from July 2010 until July 2016, when Examiner closed down due to financial insolvency. Over that span of time, he published 90 different articles which collectively received over 80,000 page views. Archived copies of these articles are kept here for posterity.
==National Wiki Edits Examiner==
==National Wiki Edits Examiner==
* '''[http://archive.is/Wd3Y5 Wikipedia rejects name for South Beach neighborhood]''' - May 25, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/Wd3Y5 Wikipedia rejects name for South Beach neighborhood]''' - May 25, 2011
''On the afternoon of May 18, a Miami-based executive specializing in hotel real estate wanted to give a name to the famously ritzy section of South Beach along Collins Avenue, between 24th and 15th Streets. We know this...''
''On the afternoon of May 18, a Miami-based executive specializing in hotel real estate wanted to give a name to the famously ritzy section of South Beach along Collins Avenue, between 24th and 15th Streets. We know this...'' ([http://archive.is/ERNlf map]) ([http://archive.is/nzK1r photo])
* '''[http://archive.is/EoNWk Wikimedia Foundation and its CTO no longer fit]''' - June 6, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/EoNWk Wikimedia Foundation and its CTO no longer fit]''' - June 6, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/S8xTF Wikimedia Foundation board does not change]''' - June 22, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/S8xTF Wikimedia Foundation board does not change]''' - June 22, 2011
''The non-profit foundation that is responsible for Wikipedia and multitudes of smaller sister projects announced the results last week of its board of trustees election. As reported earlier here at Examiner, the foundation determined that its best interests...''
''The non-profit foundation that is responsible for Wikipedia and multitudes of smaller sister projects announced the results last week of its board of trustees election. As reported earlier here at Examiner, the foundation determined that its best interests...'' ([http://archive.is/Lh0F8 photo 1]) ([http://archive.is/IBev2 photo 2]) ([http://archive.is/6TaQl photo 3])
* '''[http://archive.is/5HFwQ Wikipedia reveals Top 10 most contentious people]''' - July 11, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/5HFwQ Wikipedia reveals Top 10 most contentious people]''' - July 11, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/WPcNc Wikimedia UK trustee finds his hands tied]''' - November 29, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/WPcNc Wikimedia UK trustee finds his hands tied]''' - November 29, 2011
''Earlier this month the new charitable organization, Wikimedia UK, received its government clearance to operate as a non-profit in the United Kingdom. The mission of the Wikimedia UK, a spin-off from the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/KRLef link])
''Earlier this month the new charitable organization, Wikimedia UK, received its government clearance to operate as a non-profit in the United Kingdom. The mission of the Wikimedia UK, a spin-off from the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/KRLef link] with photo)
* '''[http://archive.is/LT9cw Wikimedia UK stonewalling effort to see documents]''' - December 20, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/LT9cw Wikimedia UK stonewalling effort to see documents]''' - December 20, 2011
* '''[http://archive.is/auC5s Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales denies Kazakhstan connection]''' - December 23, 2012
* '''[http://archive.is/auC5s Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales denies Kazakhstan connection]''' - December 23, 2012
''Over the past 48 hours, something very strange and disturbing has been panning out on one of Wikipedia's most popular pages -- the Talk page of the project's co-founder, Jimmy Wales. Accusations have been leveled...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/VUyjq link])
''Over the past 48 hours, something very strange and disturbing has been panning out on one of Wikipedia's most popular pages -- the Talk page of the project's co-founder, Jimmy Wales. Accusations have been leveled...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/VUyjq link])
===2013===
* '''[http://archive.is/uknGj Explosive timeline links Jimmy Wales, Tony Blair, and Kazakhstan regime]''' - January 4, 2013
''Today, a rigorously assembled timeline was completed that connects key figures of the Internet, the former British government, and an oppressive central Asian regime.Two weeks ago, Examiner broke a controversial story that explored some...''
* '''[http://archive.is/JHssT Wikipedia intervenes to hide identity of Russavia]''' - March 5, 2013
''Wikipedia was in a bit of chaos today, as some of its administrators and its Arbitration Committee seek to wipe away any mention of the real name of a user who goes by the nickname "Russavia". One popular...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/uiCdd link])
* '''[http://archive.is/mPJRD Many vandalized Wikipedia edits traced to Wikimedia Foundation itself]''' - April 23, 2013
''Most people are familiar by now with the fact that Wikipedia is a huge encyclopedia, but that it suffers from occasional vandalism by users. And while we're often reassured that most vandalism on Wikipedia is usually fixed within minutes, how many of us knew that some Wikipedia vandalism emanates from the offices of the Wikimedia Foundation headquarters itself?...''
* '''[http://archive.is/vA5Lz Jimmy Wales breaks Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden]''' - June 25, 2013
''Wikipedia's notorious co-founder, Jimmy Wales, has launched an investigation to determine if any of the pseudonyms who edit the world's biggest encyclopedia are in fact (or suspected to be) classified security info leaker, Edward Snowden...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/kSTDS link])
* '''[http://archive.is/Aa2b8 Newtown school shooter Adam Lanza may have edited Wikipedia]''' - July 1, 2013
''Hartford Courant reporters Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner believe that they have uncovered an Internet user identity that appears to have been used by the Newtown school killer, Adam Lanza, to engage in conversations on many websites, including Wikipedia...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/T2EW6 link])
* '''[http://archive.is/CLywO Wikipedia's new editing software gets failing grade]''' - July 20, 2013
''If you're not one of the 34,000 or so people who edit the English Wikipedia at least five times per month, you may not have noticed the change that has taken place on the massive encyclopedia, but...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/VdNLq link])
* '''[http://archive.is/xJpS3 Wikimedia Foundation's Oliver Keyes stripped of administrator status]''' - August 12, 2013
''In a shocking decision today, the English Wikipedia's highest volunteer governing body, the Arbitration Committee, has defrocked a Wikimedia Foundation paid contract staff member, Oliver Keyes, for "conduct unbecoming an administrator, and for bringing the project into...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/tDC8j link])
* '''[http://archive.is/8B9DI List of Wikipedia's biggest failures]''' - September 30, 2013
''Since its January 2001 inception by Dr. Larry Sanger (with some software and server help from Jimmy Wales), Wikipedia has grown from just a handful of crowdsourced encyclopedia articles to over 4.3 million articles in the English-language version...''
* '''[http://archive.is/Pkx2l Wiki users' private info left unsecured]''' - October 3, 2013
''In the wee hours of this morning, Thursday, October 3rd, over 35,000 users of Wikipedia's sister projects received a startling e-mail from the Wikimedia Foundation, telling them that their private user information inadvertently had...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/hoEBf link])
* '''[http://archive.is/eQmeM Jimmy Wales keynotes Alfresco Summit]''' - November 4, 2013
''Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales delivers a paid keynote speech to a conference of information technologists meeting at the Alfresco Summit. What Jimbo (as he is affectionately called online) will be leaving behind at Wikipedia are the heated arguments regarding a controversy about purportedly 250 "sockpuppet" editor accounts...''
* '''[http://archive.is/q20YO Wikimedia law firm fiddles Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales hides]''' - November 25, 2013
''Last week, Examiner reported that Wikimedia Foundation law firm Cooley LLP issued a cease and desist letter to a Wikipedia editing company, Wiki-PR, telling them to stop editing Wikipedia -- or else. Yesterday, the other shoe dropped, where it...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/sQafM link])
* '''[http://archive.is/G5avy Wikipedia's "scrutineers" snoop on living arrangements of contributors]''' - December 11, 2013
''Just when you thought that the nerdy know-it-alls who run Wikipedia couldn't get much creepier, it was revealed yesterday (December 10, 2013) that Wikipedia contributors who voted in the recent "Arbitration Committee" election will...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/6tiF8 link])
===2014===
* '''[http://archive.is/eIDVE Wikipedia page views in downhill slide]''' - January 7, 2014
''Yesterday, the foremost Wikipedia criticism site, Wikipediocracy.com, revealed on its blog a batch of web traffic data from the Wikimedia Foundation that is truly newsworthy: Wikipedia experienced in 2013 the first-ever year-over-year loss in page...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/4vOQj link])
* '''[http://archive.is/RdlCj Wikimedia Foundation employee caught sockpuppeting and loses admin rights]''' - March 8, 2014
''Yesterday morning, March 7, a software developer employed by the Wikimedia Foundation was compelled to turn over his Wikipedia administrator toolkit, when it had become clear that he had been caught using a "sockpuppet" account to badger another...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/LzFm6 link])
* '''[http://archive.is/up6QV Lila Tretikov to head Wikimedia Foundation]''' - May 1, 2014
''The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, recognized International Workers Day today by hiring an international replacement for their most important worker, outgoing executive director Sue Gardner. The foundation announced that Gardner, a Canadian, will be replaced...''
* '''[http://archive.is/lHryL Wikipedia finally bans middle-aged pervert]''' - June 30, 2014
''It took Jimmy Wales only a matter of minutes to install the software that would become Wikipedia. But it took years for another of Jimmy Wales' creations, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, to finally ban a middle-aged...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/3zR99 link])
* '''[http://archive.is/rsjYK Jimmy Wales mired in Wikipedia anger]''' - August 29, 2014
''Only weeks after Wikipedia editors from around the globe gathered for a happy and uplifting Wikimania 2014 rally in London, many long-time active editors of Wikipedia are expressing their rage today on the Talk page of Wikipedia...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/do18n link])
* '''[http://archive.is/ZYUMZ Assessing Wikipedia's coverage of Ebola]''' - October 28, 2014
''On October 26, New York Times reporter (and frequent cheerleader for Wikipedia) Noam Cohen published a story about how Wikipedia's article about the Ebola virus disease is now a credible source, and that its "requirement for sourcing...''
* '''[http://archive.is/1pqKB Broken promises of Jimmy Wales]''' - December 26, 2014
''Jimmy Wales had a busy Christmas Eve on Twitter, trumpeting what a principled and successful man he is. The co-founder of Wikipedia has come under fire for his acceptance of a $500,000 award from Mohammed bin...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/uX13r link])
===2015===
* '''[http://archive.is/elp1t Wikimedia Foundation caught self-promoting on Wikipedia]''' - February 21, 2015
''On Thursday, February 19, the organization that operates Wikipedia posted a blog article that proudly declared, "Research finds the Wikimedia Foundation to be the largest known Participatory Grantmaking Fund". Shortly after this was published, the Wikipedia criticism...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/xLwx4 link])
* '''[http://archive.is/ln4dn How to spread misinformation on Wikipedia]''' - May 2, 2015
''Imagine it's 1918. World War One has drawn to a close in Europe. The city of Cleveland founded its own orchestra. And over in Japan, the Sagami Railway is nearing completion of its first section...''
* '''[http://archive.is/BUJre Unmasking Victoria Taylor as a Wikipedian]''' - July 4, 2015
''In the United States, the tenth-most popular website is Reddit.com, a message-based social networking and news sharing site. Yesterday, Friday July 3rd, the various message boards of Reddit erupted in turmoil. Volunteer moderators have shut...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/dbfVs link]) ([http://archive.is/YBpGZ photo 1]) ([http://archive.is/2L3JL photo 2]) ([http://archive.is/lQG0B photo 3]) ([http://archive.is/G0EiP photo 4])
* '''[http://archive.is/ipnxn 5 Travel Tips for Wikipedians Going to Mexico City]''' - July 15, 2015
''The excitement is in the air. A veritable fiesta of sun-starved Wikipedia nerds and nerdettes will descend on Mexico City today (from July 15-19, 2015) to participate in their biggest annual wiki-conference: Wikimania. While salmon...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/xJK4Y link])
* '''[http://archive.is/pwWM3 Jimmy Wales shames PR editors]''' - July 27, 2015
''Some companies, like General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and Apple, spend many millions of dollars in promotional advertising campaigns. Other companies, like Rolls-Royce, Krispy Kreme, and the makers of Sriracha hot sauce, allocate no money toward traditional ad...''
* '''[http://archive.is/EgGKo Wikipedia's Ketel of conflict of interest]''' - September 23, 2015
''Surely readers are tiring by now of the news stories identifying people or companies "caught" editing their own Wikipedia articles. These "investigative" reports seem to appear like clockwork, every few weeks or so. This week, it...''
* '''[http://archive.is/khSgu Deciding the fate of images at Wikimedia Commons]''' - November 22, 2015
''What Wikipedia did for encyclopedias, Wikimedia Commons attempts to do for photo albums. A database of nearly 30 million freely usable images and other files, Wikimedia Commons is where so many of us turn in search of that perfect...'' (included [http://archive.is/AFJne slideshow], with this [http://archive.is/o2cYS summary slide])
* '''[http://archive.is/3G72M The doctor is out says WMF board]''' - December 29, 2015
''Late yesterday, the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees voted to remove one of its own members, Dr. James Heilman, from that governance body. Heilman, an emergency room physician from Canada, had just been appointed to the wiki...'' (alternate [http://archive.is/9mwln link])
===2016===
* '''[http://archive.is/w20wY Stanton Foundation manipulating Wikipedia again]''' - April 26, 2016
''An anonymous investigator blew the whistle today on Liz Allison, the primary director of the $228 million Stanton Foundation. Allison was caught editing Wikipedia's article about her own organization, despite having a huge personal financial conflict of...''
* '''[http://archive.is/XqgSF Diversity Conference at National Archives bars entry to news reporter]''' - June 16, 2016
''The National Archives will be the site tomorrow of a controversial "Diversity Conference" hosted jointly by the Wikimedia DC organization and the federally-funded Archives. The June 17-18 conference is billed as "open to everyone...''