This Website Will Turn Any Wikipedia Page Into A "Real" Academic Paper

On Tuesday, MSCHF, a digital product agency, launched a site named M-Journal that can make a seemingly real academic article from a Wikipedia’s one. People can send the link to anyone they want or even cite it in their papers.

What the company did to make this happen is to publish the whole content of Wikipedia on its academic journal. On the site, users can search for any article on Wikipedia, and they will have a citation referring to M-Journal of MSCHF instead of Wikipedia.

According to MSCHF’s founder Gabe Whaley, the aim of this project is a show the academic system’s nonessential and repetitive hoops that students must jump through.

He also said that at least one student had used M-Journal, and the professor did not find out about it.

M-Journal can also make citations for Chicago, MLA, and APA styles.

One of the best parts of M-Journal is that it can generate a seemingly real link to the academic paper if your professor asks for it. However, there will be a fake paywall so that no one can see the whole article. This works on the assumption that only a few people will want to go past the paywall to read the entire thing.

This is not the first time MSCHF came up with something it thinks will help students. Last year, the agency launched Times Newer Roman, a font that looks exactly like Times New Roman but with a bigger size to make your papers seem to be longer.