SourceWatch:About

SourceWatch is a free encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda that is being written collaboratively on this web site. It catalogues descriptions and details of PR firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives. (More...)

You may not agree with all of the criticisms, and if you think something that appears here is unfair, you can fix it! The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every article in SourceWatch. As more and more people edit the articles, they improve in quality all the time. (More...)

All of our articles are covered by the GNU Free Documentation License, to ensure that they can remain freely available forever. (More...)

• Purpose
• SourceWatch:What is a wiki and how does it work?
• SourceWatch: General disclaimer
• Contributing
• Copyrights
• Frequently asked questions
• Flack Attack: the reason for and some samples from SourceWatch

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History

• Today: SourceWatch has 68,584 articles.
• July 3, 2004: SourceWatch is the world's 14th biggest wiki website by mere article count.
• March 10, 2003: SourceWatch is publicly launched.
• January 15, 2003: SourceWatch is first created.
• December 18, 2002: PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton attends a conference in Amsterdam hosted by World-Information.org and first learns about Wikipedia.