{"id":254,"date":"2007-01-05T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/05\/wikipedia-corrections-in-motion\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T03:17:22","slug":"wikipedia-corrections-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/05\/wikipedia-corrections-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia corrections in motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia is “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit<\/a>“. As a result, it has at times come under pretty heavy criticism for being very subjective compared to traditional encyclopedias. To counter this argument, many Wikipedia die-hards assert that opinions and inappropriate content are quickly removed.<\/p>\n

I’ve collected here a few screenshots, links, and fake quotations (my guess as to the thought process behind various Wikipedia contributions) illustrating the introduction and subsequent removal of casual subjectivity on a Wikipedia article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"adam_brody_0.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\nHmmm. I’ll add my personal opinion to this article… is that wrong? I know I’ll add a smilie so that people aren’t offended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"adam_brody_1.png\"><\/p>\n

What’s with that smilie? How immature. I’ll fix this article up!… that’s how you spell definitely<\/a> right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"adam_brody_2.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What the hell is that?! Stupid immature people screwing around with my<\/em> Wikipedia! If this happens again, I’ll block their asses!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it seems that for every person who wants to write “OMG! He is so totally awesome!” on the Wikipedia page of their favourite celebrity, there is some finger-wagger waiting to pounce! Let’s hear it for the finger-waggers! (Seriously)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia is “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit“. As a result, it has at times come under pretty heavy criticism for being very subjective compared to traditional encyclopedias. To counter this argument, many Wikipedia die-hards assert that opinions and inappropriate content are quickly removed. I’ve collected here a few screenshots, links, and fake quotations … Continue reading “Wikipedia corrections in motion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-46","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}