Directory:Examiner articles by Gregory 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

2010

• Ting Chen is new chairman of Wikimedia Foundation - July 13, 2010

At its sixth annual "Wikimania" summit of devoted Wikipedia users and other guests, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the ascension of Ting Chen as the new chairperson of the Foundation's board of trustees. Mr. Chen, an information... (alternate link)

• Swingtips conquer Wikipedia - July 19, 2010

Wikipedia goes to great length to discourage in principle, if not prohibit in practice, the phenomenon of people or businesses writing about themselves on Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedians have cobbled together a 5,490-word "behavioral guideline"...

• British Museum pays for Wikipedia page views - July 26, 2010

One of Wikipedia's biggest problems is the fact (or perhaps it's merely a perception) that experts who work in the time-honored knowledge professions -- college professors, librarians, museum curators -- are often made to feel unwelcome by the belligerent...

• Wikipedia criticism group purges three critics - July 27, 2010

An academic group dedicated to fostering a "critical point of view" as regards Wikipedia has decided to purge three noteworthy Wikipedia critics from its ranks. The crime? They were too critical of Wikipedia. The Critical Point...

• Wikijunior took the money, but no books printed - August 3, 2010

As a struggle persists about whether or not to welcome avowed pedophiles to edit Wikimedia Foundation projects like Wikipedia, and whether or not it's okay to allow a 15-year-old volunteer administrator on Wikimedia Commons to view, judge... (alternate link)

• Wikimedia Foundation's boss gives orders - August 4, 2010

Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner has issued a rallying call to the loyal minions of the free culture movement. In order to help Wikipedia, volunteers are supposed to: Work to create a favourable public image for the movement Support...

• Wikipedia is not the encyclopedia anyone can edit - August 9, 2010

Wikipedia may claim as a headline on its very own main page to be "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", but nothing could be further from the truth. While we've seen how some self-promotional...

• Ten new Wikipedia articles - 2009 - August 13, 2010

Over the Labor Day weekend of 2009, I conducted a short case study of 10 new articles created on Wikipedia. Using the "recent changes" feature and looking for that big capital "N" (for new articles)...

• Wikimedia Foundation rules on naughty bits - September 23, 2010

Sue Gardner is the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit corporation that manages Wikipedia. In May and June 2010, the WMF was beset with complaints about the various floods of pornographic images, videos, and text... (alternate link)

• Wikipedia co-founder assists another damsel in distress - September 25, 2010

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is no stranger to assisting and even dating attractive brunettes through the focal point of their Wikipedia biographies. This week, he turned his editorial attention to perhaps the most attractive female government minister in...

• Jimmy Wales contradicts the rest of the Internet - September 29, 2010

The much maligned co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has once again stumbled into saying something that simply doesn't appear to be true, if judged against the evidence that the rest of the world sees on the Internet...

• Wikia takes down "Squirtage" wiki - October 2, 2010

Wikia, Inc. is often known as the "commercial spinoff" of Wikipedia, as it was co-founded by the co-founder of Wikipedia, and Wikipedia's non-profit board of trustees was once 60% stocked with Wikia, Inc... (alternate link)