{"id":47,"date":"2006-08-30T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_web\/wikipedia_news.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"wikipedia_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2006\/08\/30\/wikipedia_news","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/' title='Wikipedia'>Wikipedia<\/a> has been in the news a lot lately. Some of the articles are quite insightful: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/060731fa_fact\">Know It All: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?<\/a> in the July 31 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\">New Yorker<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200609\/wikipedia\">The Hive<\/a> in the September issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\">Atlantic Monthly<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Each article examines a different aspect of Wikipedia knowledge and culture, and they fit together nicely (although presumably unintentionally). Both articles are proof that traditional print media can still be relevant and coexist semi-peacefully with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benkler.org\/CoasesPenguin.html\">peer production<\/a> efforts like Wikipedia. They are also excellent examples of something other than a knee-jerk defensive reaction by incumbent media to a perceived threat (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,193634,00.html\">this FOX news story<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.britannica.com\/britannica_nature_response.pdf\">Britannica&#8217;s response<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v438\/n7070\/full\/438900a.html\">Nature&#8217;s article comparing Wikipedia to Brittanica<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, an interesting unrelated Wikipedia commentary in the blogosphere: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laboratorium.net\/archives\/SevenWikipediaFallacies.html\">Seven Wikipedia Fallacies<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2003\/04\/cyberdemocracy-conference-information.html\">enfant terrible<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laboratorium.net\">James Grimmelmann<\/a>. It&#8217;s nice to see James blogging more, now that his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laboratorium.net\/archives\/AWordfromOurSponsor.html#comments\">judicial clerkship is over<\/a>. (Is he still an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enfant_terrible\">enfant terrible<\/a> now that he has finished his clerkship? Only time will tell.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia has been in the news a lot lately. Some of the articles are quite insightful: Know It All: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? in the July 31 New Yorker. The Hive in the September issue of the Atlantic Monthly Each article examines a different aspect of Wikipedia knowledge and culture, and they fit together nicely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}