{"id":293,"date":"2005-12-06T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T19:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=293"},"modified":"2005-12-06T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T19:08:31","slug":"wikipedia-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wikipedia-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much, much more to say (and respond to) on the Collaboration in the Humanities thread, but I need to note the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Seigenthaler_Sr._Wikipedia_biography_controversy\">current Wikipedia controversy over an inaccurate biography<\/a>. Many fascinating and urgent issues raised by these events, with the best talk about them occurring on Wikipedia itself, especially in the discussion pages.<\/p>\n<p>In case the article I linked to above is deleted by the Wikipedia admins, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10339204\/\">another description of the controversy<\/a>. This account trumpets the value and accuracy of traditional media in ways that seem a bit self-serving to me, especially since traditional media don&#8217;t always get it right, either. It&#8217;s also worth noting that the vigorous and thoughtful discussion of the issue on Wikipedia doesn&#8217;t get a mention. No surprises there&#8211;this is an economic competition, after all, and I&#8217;m sure MSNBC wants us to get all our information from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much, much more to say (and respond to) on the Collaboration in the Humanities thread, but I need to note the current Wikipedia controversy over an inaccurate biography. Many fascinating and urgent issues raised by these events, with the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wikipedia-controversy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-4J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}