{"id":8998,"date":"2015-10-08T14:39:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:03","slug":"the-chaotic-wisdom-of-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/08\/the-chaotic-wisdom-of-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chaotic Wisdom of Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/122954\/chaotic-wisdom-wikipedia-paragraphs\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ford_gettyimages-83479753_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>But what is genuinely most fascinating, at least to me [&#8230;] is the strange way it lets you write encyclopedia pages\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe structures that have built up since its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Wikipedia\">founding in 2001<\/a>. The way that Wikipedia is composed is a good example of what happens when you build something so incredibly simple that anyone can use it, and then everyone does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/122954\/chaotic-wisdom-wikipedia-paragraphs\">The Chaotic Wisdom of Wikipedia Paragraphs | The New Republic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Wikipedia&#8217;s editors built an online universe that anyone could use, and then everyone did.<\/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":[1116,1115,123],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-paul-ford","tag-the-new-republic","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","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=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}