{"id":1471,"date":"2010-09-09T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:42","slug":"one-wikipedia-entry-12-print-books-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/09\/one-wikipedia-entry-12-print-books-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"One Wikipedia entry = 12 print books.  Wow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1473\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/09\/one-wikipedia-entry-12-print-books-wow\/wikipedia\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1473\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wikipedia-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wikipedia-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wikipedia-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wikipedia.png 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/about\/\">James Bridle<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/\">booktwo.org<\/a>, writes about how one entry in Wikipedia &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq_National_Library_and_Archive#Iraq_War\">The   Iraq War<\/a> &#8211; turned into a multi-volume set, 12 books in all.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically, Mr Bridle, took all the edits to that one entry, made between Dec. 2004 and Nov 2009 and turned them into a 12-volume look into &#8216;flow of history,&#8217; Wikipedia-style<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This particular book\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor rather, set of books\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis every edit made to a  single Wikipedia article,\u00c2\u00a0 during the five years between the article\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inception in  December 2004 and November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost  7,000 pages.<\/p>\n<p>It amounts to twelve volumes: the size of a single old-style  encyclopaedia. It contains arguments over numbers, differences of  opinion on relevance and political standpoints, and frequent moments  when someone erases the whole thing and just writes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Saddam Hussein was a  dickhead\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a rather fascinating concept and posting.\u00c2\u00a0 Read it at <a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/notebook\/wikipedia-historiography\/\">booktwo.org<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 See his presentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/stml\/james-bridle-dconstruct-2010\">Slideshare<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Or listen to his presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/huffduffer.com\/dConstruct\/25256\">Huffduffer<\/a> [he presented at dContruct 2010].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bridle, of booktwo.org, writes about how one entry in Wikipedia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Iraq War \u00e2\u20ac\u201c turned into a multi-volume set, 12 books in all.  Basically, Mr Bridle, took all the edits to that one entry, made between Dec. 2004 and Nov 2009 and turned them into a 12-volume look into \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcflow of history\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Read more on our blog at http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/blog\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,68,124,126,70,123],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-booktwo","tag-history","tag-iraq","tag-jamesbridle","tag-war","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}