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 == Founding ==
-'''Susan Marie Gerbic''' (born August 8, 1962) and Mark Edward proposed "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW) as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeptiCamp Skepticamp] presentation, choosing that title to describe "skeptical" activism that is "more underground, more grass-root, more mole-like".<ref name="TAM9">AV media; TAM 9 Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Susan Gerbic; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160309052222/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Archive date: March 9, 2016</ref> The idea for organized effort came from Tim Farley after Gerbic's attempts to use typical WikiProjects where she found them either&nbsp;dormant or not user-friendly for new editors. She then started communicating and training others on Facebook and by email.<ref name="prism">http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Episode 11; Luchtefeld, Jason, Ritchey, Grant: The Prism Podcast; The Prism, December 15, 2013 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20150903024652/http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Archivedate: September 3, 2015; Accessdate August 29, 2015</ref>
+'''Susan Marie Gerbic''' (born August 8, 1962) and Mark Edward proposed "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW) as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeptiCamp Skepticamp] presentation, choosing that title to describe "skeptical" activism that is "more underground, more grass-root, more mole-like".<ref name="TAM9">AV media; TAM 9 Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Susan Gerbic; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160309052222/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Archive date: March 9, 2016</ref> The idea for organized effort came from Tim Farley after Gerbic's attempts to use typical WikiProjects where she found them either dormant or not user-friendly for new editors. She then started communicating and training others on Facebook and by email.<ref name="prism">http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Episode 11; Luchtefeld, Jason, Ritchey, Grant: The Prism Podcast; The Prism, December 15, 2013 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20150903024652/http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Archivedate: September 3, 2015; Accessdate August 29, 2015</ref>
 Her efforts to influence Wikipedia grew after presentations at SkeptiCalcon and a Sunday paper presentation at The Amaz!ng Meeting<ref name="TAM9" /> and she created a blog on the subject. She stated that the formal beginning of GSoW is May 2010.<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP">Gerbic, Susan: Wikapediatrician Susan Gerbic discusses her Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project; http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped ; Skeptical Inquirer by Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, March 8, 2015; https://web.archive.org/web/20150830023844/http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped ; Archivedate August 30, 2015 Accessdate January 13, 2015</ref> Gerbic is often asked about her Wikipedia contributions and edits: "I discovered that there are people in our community that have been looking for a way to become more involved but need more structure, support, and training."<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP" /> When people ask how they can help the skeptical movement, Gerbic is quick to suggest that they, too, learn to edit Wikipedia: "We rewrite Wikipedia, and proof the pages, we remove citations that are not noteworthy, we add citations, we do just about everything in Wikipedia to improve content."<ref name="tamers">AV media: Guttormson, Joel: Meet the Amazing TAMers: Susan Gerbic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdV2WD2P3dE ; Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science; November 5, 2013; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307082521/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdV2WD2P3dE ; Archive date: March 7, 2016</ref>

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 == Founding ==
-'''Susan Marie Gerbic''' (born August 8, 1962) and Mark Edward proposed "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW) as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeptiCamp Skepticamp] presentation, choosing that title to describe "skeptical" activism that is "more underground, more grass-root, more mole-like".<ref name="TAM9">AV media; TAM 9 Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Susan Gerbic; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160309052222/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Archive date: March 9, 2016</ref> The idea for organized effort came from Tim Farley after Gerbic's attempts to use typical WikiProjects where she found either them dormant or not user-friendly for new editors. She then started communicating and training others on Facebook and by email.<ref name="prism">http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Episode 11; Luchtefeld, Jason, Ritchey, Grant: The Prism Podcast; The Prism, December 15, 2013 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20150903024652/http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Archivedate: September 3, 2015; Accessdate August 29, 2015</ref>
+'''Susan Marie Gerbic''' (born August 8, 1962) and Mark Edward proposed "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW) as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeptiCamp Skepticamp] presentation, choosing that title to describe "skeptical" activism that is "more underground, more grass-root, more mole-like".<ref name="TAM9">AV media; TAM 9 Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Susan Gerbic; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160309052222/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Archive date: March 9, 2016</ref> The idea for organized effort came from Tim Farley after Gerbic's attempts to use typical WikiProjects where she found them either&nbsp;dormant or not user-friendly for new editors. She then started communicating and training others on Facebook and by email.<ref name="prism">http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Episode 11; Luchtefeld, Jason, Ritchey, Grant: The Prism Podcast; The Prism, December 15, 2013 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20150903024652/http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Archivedate: September 3, 2015; Accessdate August 29, 2015</ref>
 Her efforts to influence Wikipedia grew after presentations at SkeptiCalcon and a Sunday paper presentation at The Amaz!ng Meeting<ref name="TAM9" /> and she created a blog on the subject. She stated that the formal beginning of GSoW is May 2010.<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP">Gerbic, Susan: Wikapediatrician Susan Gerbic discusses her Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project; http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped ; Skeptical Inquirer by Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, March 8, 2015; https://web.archive.org/web/20150830023844/http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped ; Archivedate August 30, 2015 Accessdate January 13, 2015</ref> Gerbic is often asked about her Wikipedia contributions and edits: "I discovered that there are people in our community that have been looking for a way to become more involved but need more structure, support, and training."<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP" /> When people ask how they can help the skeptical movement, Gerbic is quick to suggest that they, too, learn to edit Wikipedia: "We rewrite Wikipedia, and proof the pages, we remove citations that are not noteworthy, we add citations, we do just about everything in Wikipedia to improve content."<ref name="tamers">AV media: Guttormson, Joel: Meet the Amazing TAMers: Susan Gerbic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdV2WD2P3dE ; Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science; November 5, 2013; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307082521/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdV2WD2P3dE ; Archive date: March 7, 2016</ref>

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 '''Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia''' is not a funny fake organisation for comedy purposes but a serious organisation of so-called [[Skeptical_movement|"skeptics]]" to influence and manipulate [[Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] articles in a systematic way. The group was founded by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Gerbic Susan Gerbic], an American [[Skeptical_movement|pseudo skeptical]] activist.
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 == Founding ==
-'''Susan Marie Gerbic''' (born August 8, 1962) and Mark Edward proposed "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW) as a Skepticamp presentation, choosing that title to describe "skeptical" activism that is "more underground, more grass-root, more mole-like".<ref name="TAM9">AV media; TAM 9 Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Susan Gerbic; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160309052222/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Archive date: March 9, 2016</ref> The idea for organized effort came from Tim Farley after Gerbic's attempts to use typical WikiProjects and found them dormant and not user-friendly for new editors. She then started communicating and training others on Facebook and by email.<ref name="prism">http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Episode 11; Luchtefeld, Jason, Ritchey, Grant: The Prism Podcast; The Prism, December 15, 2013 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20150903024652/http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Archivedate: September 3, 2015; Accessdate August 29, 2015</ref>
+'''Susan Marie Gerbic''' (born August 8, 1962) and Mark Edward proposed "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW) as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeptiCamp Skepticamp] presentation, choosing that title to describe "skeptical" activism that is "more underground, more grass-root, more mole-like".<ref name="TAM9">AV media; TAM 9 Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Susan Gerbic; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160309052222/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUd9uwVjqA ; Archive date: March 9, 2016</ref> The idea for organized effort came from Tim Farley after Gerbic's attempts to use typical WikiProjects where she found either them dormant or not user-friendly for new editors. She then started communicating and training others on Facebook and by email.<ref name="prism">http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Episode 11; Luchtefeld, Jason, Ritchey, Grant: The Prism Podcast; The Prism, December 15, 2013 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20150903024652/http://www.prismpodcast.com/the-prism-podcast-episode-11 ; Archivedate: September 3, 2015; Accessdate August 29, 2015</ref>
 Her efforts to influence Wikipedia grew after presentations at SkeptiCalcon and a Sunday paper presentation at The Amaz!ng Meeting<ref name="TAM9" /> and she created a blog on the subject. She stated that the formal beginning of GSoW is May 2010.<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP">Gerbic, Susan: Wikapediatrician Susan Gerbic discusses her Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project; http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped ; Skeptical Inquirer by Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, March 8, 2015; https://web.archive.org/web/20150830023844/http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped ; Archivedate August 30, 2015 Accessdate January 13, 2015</ref> Gerbic is often asked about her Wikipedia contributions and edits: "I discovered that there are people in our community that have been looking for a way to become more involved but need more structure, support, and training."<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP" /> When people ask how they can help the skeptical movement, Gerbic is quick to suggest that they, too, learn to edit Wikipedia: "We rewrite Wikipedia, and proof the pages, we remove citations that are not noteworthy, we add citations, we do just about everything in Wikipedia to improve content."<ref name="tamers">AV media: Guttormson, Joel: Meet the Amazing TAMers: Susan Gerbic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdV2WD2P3dE ; Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science; November 5, 2013; Access date: August 29, 2015; Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307082521/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdV2WD2P3dE ; Archive date: March 7, 2016</ref>
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 === World Wikipedia project ===
-The World Wikipedia project began in August 2012 after Gerbic was unable to find non-English editing groups to do what she had done with the English project. Gerbic began forming and training non-English editors. Beginning with the "Lets Start with Jerry" project, all teams were asked to translate the English “Jerry Andrus” Wikipedia page into as many languages as possible. Arabic, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Portuguese articles were completed under her guidance.<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP"/>
+The World Wikipedia project began in August 2012 after Gerbic was unable to find non-English editing groups to do what she had done with the English project. Gerbic began forming teams and training non-English editors. Beginning with the "Lets Start with Jerry" project, all teams were asked to translate the English “Jerry Andrus” Wikipedia page into as many languages as possible. Arabic, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Portuguese articles were completed under her guidance.<ref name="Wikapediatrican CSICOP" />
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 '''Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia''' is not a funny fake organisation for comedy purposes but a serious organisation of so-called [[Skeptical_movement|"skeptics]]" to influence and manipulate [[Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] articles in a systematic way. The group was founded by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Gerbic Susan Gerbic], an American [[Skeptical_movement|pseudo skeptical]] activist.
-As the name indicates, '''GSoW''' is part of an international network of materialistic fanatics who - after their own understanding - try to edit and re-write articles in Wikipedia to ensure that Wikipedia is reflecting their personal world-view and ideology. This group is strongly connected to the German group of pseudo-skeptics [http://de.pluspedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_zur_wissenschaftlichen_Untersuchung_von_Parawissenschaften_(GWUP) '''GWUP'''], which also invites pharma lobbyists to advertise for Monsanto as the propagate on their own website.<ref>Homeopathy, Conspiracies and Glyphosate: The Recipe for SkepKon 2018 https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/the_skepkon_report_with_susan_gerbic#footer<ref/>
+As the name indicates, '''GSoW''' is part of an international network of materialistic fanatics who - after their own understanding - try to edit and re-write articles in Wikipedia to ensure that Wikipedia is reflecting their personal world-view and ideology. This group is strongly connected to the German group of pseudo-skeptics [http://de.pluspedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_zur_wissenschaftlichen_Untersuchung_von_Parawissenschaften_(GWUP) '''GWUP'''], which also invites pharma lobbyists to advertise for Monsanto as the propagate on their own website.<ref>”Homeopathy, Conspiracies and Glyphosate: The Recipe for SkepKon 2018” https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/the_skepkon_report_with_susan_gerbic#footer</ref>
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	As the name indicates, '''GSoW''' is part of an international network of materialistic fanatics who - after their own understanding - try to edit and re-write articles in Wikipedia to ensure that Wikipedia is reflecting their personal world-view and ideology. This group is strongly connected to the German group of pseudo-skeptics [http://de.pluspedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_zur_wissenschaftlichen_Untersuchung_von_Parawissenschaften_(GWUP) '''GWUP'''], which also invites pharma lobbyists to advertise for Monsanto as the propagate on their own website.<ref>Homeopathy, Conspiracies and Glyphosate: The Recipe for SkepKon 2018 https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/the_skepkon_report_with_susan_gerbic#footer<ref/>		As the name indicates, '''GSoW''' is part of an international network of materialistic fanatics who - after their own understanding - try to edit and re-write articles in Wikipedia to ensure that Wikipedia is reflecting their personal world-view and ideology. This group is strongly connected to the German group of pseudo-skeptics [http://de.pluspedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_zur_wissenschaftlichen_Untersuchung_von_Parawissenschaften_(GWUP) '''GWUP'''], which also invites pharma lobbyists to advertise for Monsanto as the propagate on their own website.<ref>Homeopathy, Conspiracies and Glyphosate: The Recipe for SkepKon 2018 https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/the_skepkon_report_with_susan_gerbic#footer<ref/>
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