{"id":487,"date":"2007-05-09T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=487"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:26:41","slug":"wikipedia-mostly-harmless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/05\/wikipedia-mostly-harmless.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia: Mostly Harmless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Nichols recently <a href=\"http:\/\/sarsaparillablog.net\/?p=528\">wrote at Sarsaparilla<\/a> about the vagaries of Wikipedia, its errors and omissions, some accidental and some by misguided intention.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Wikipedia has a real future, and this to me is it: it is a beautiful, worldwide record of what people think they know. Day by day it is going to become a bigger, bolder better record of changing attitudes and ideas&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/sarsaparillablog.net\/?p=528#comment-183601\">commenter described his own experience<\/a> of adding Australian content to the site, only to see overzealous volunteers (presumably not Australian) marking articles for deletion because they&#8217;d never heard of the people or places involved: &#8220;What struck me about the process was how difficult it seemed for volunteers to verify whether the work was deserving.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/ej_5.jpg\" title=\"A 1964 EH Holden Standard, to be precise.\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fortunately, some articles are self-evidently authoritative and thorough.  Below is the current Wikipedia entry for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holden_Standard\">Holden Standard<\/a>, the base model Australian family car of the 1950s and 60s, reprinted in its entirety:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>The Holden Standard was a vehicle manufactured by Holden in Australia. It&#8217;s a pretty standard vehicle. As far as standard cars built by Holden go, this is by far the standardest and most Holdeney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t even need a &#8220;citation needed&#8221; tag.  For additional fun, check out the entry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Holden_Standard&amp;action=history\">revision history<\/a>, showing the careful expansion and polishing it has undergone during the past six months.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Nichols recently wrote at Sarsaparilla about the vagaries of Wikipedia, its errors and omissions, some accidental and some by misguided intention. Wikipedia has a real future, and this to me is it: it is a beautiful, worldwide record of what people think they know. Day by day it is going to become a bigger, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}