{"id":3670,"date":"2013-10-22T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:10","slug":"the-decline-of-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/22\/the-decline-of-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/featuredstory\/520446\/the-decline-of-wikipedia\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wiki.tablex519.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who generally work under pseudonyms and habitually bicker with each other.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Because there is no other free information source like it, many online services rely on Wikipedia. Look something up on Google or ask Siri a question on your iPhone, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll often get back tidbits of information pulled from the encyclopedia and delivered as straight-up facts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Wikipedia and its stated ambition to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153compile the sum of all human knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are in trouble. The volunteer workforce that built the project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flagship, the English-language Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/featuredstory\/520446\/the-decline-of-wikipedia\/\">The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia and its stated ambition to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153compile the sum of all human knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are in trouble. The volunteer workforce that built the project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flagship, the English-language Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking<\/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":[3],"tags":[855,853,854,852,123],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-decline","tag-fail","tag-failure","tag-shrinking","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}