{"id":20,"date":"2005-12-16T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2012-03-05T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:21:12","slug":"more-wikipedia-hub-ub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"More Wikipedia Hub-ub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/2005\/12\/16\" target=\"_top\">Penny Arcade had a great commentary<\/a> today on the recent Wikipedia issues, with a particularly brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2005\/12\/16\" target=\"_top\">comic<\/a> to go with it. They seem to have a slightly different view of Wikipedia than I do, and I must admit their points are valid. I still think that the project is worthwhile and important, but it certainly isn&#8217;t going to turn into some shining gem containing the sum of all human knowledge any time soon. A quote I just loved and had to repeat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What you&#8217;ve proposed is a kind of <i>quantum encyclopedia<\/i>, where genuine data both exists and <i>doesn&#8217;t<\/i> exist depending on the precise moment I rely upon your discordant fucking mob for my information.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also have to agree with this point (and I think I already said something about peer review and expertise in my first article on the subject, below).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact of the matter is that all sources of information are not of equal value, and I don&#8217;t know how or when it became impolitic to suggest it.  In opposition to the spirit of Wikipedia, I believe there is such a thing as expertise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, must write faster, thesis will eat me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Arcade had a great commentary today on the recent Wikipedia issues, with a particularly brilliant comic to go with it. They seem to have a slightly different view of Wikipedia than I do, and I must admit their points are valid. I still think that the project is worthwhile and important, but it certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}