{"id":153,"date":"2005-06-25T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/06\/25\/la-times-learns-about-wiki-vandalism\/"},"modified":"2005-06-25T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T19:00:19","slug":"la-times-learns-about-wiki-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/06\/25\/la-times-learns-about-wiki-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times Learns about Wiki Vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a923'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weekend America interviews Jimmy Wales about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/opinion\/la-ed-wiki17jun17,1,1789326.story\">Los Angeles<br \/>\nTimes&#8217;&nbsp; wiki<\/a>, which they had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/la-wiki-splash,0,1349109.story\">remove<\/a>, on the Iraq war and the problems they had with<br \/>\nvandalism.&nbsp; Jimmy points out that without a giant community of<br \/>\nguardians, policing wiki vandalism is very difficult.&nbsp; He thinks<br \/>\nsome vandals can be deterred by posting community rules. <\/p>\n<p>Just to make things more fun,&nbsp; Weekend America misidentified Jimbo<br \/>\non their Web site as Jim Dale and provided a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.com\/\">.com URL<\/a> for&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nI<br \/>\nwrote to them, saying &#8220;Were your site a wiki, I could correct the<br \/>\nproblems myself and not bother you with this bit of correspondence.&#8221;<br \/>\nWithin minutes, I received a response from their Web staff indicating<br \/>\nthe errors had been corrected.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/weekendamerica.publicradio.org\/programs\/index_20050625.html#hour2'>LA Times Learns about Wiki Vandalism &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend America interviews Jimmy Wales about the Los Angeles Times&#8217;&nbsp; wiki, which they had to remove, on the Iraq war and the problems they had with vandalism.&nbsp; Jimmy points out that without a giant community of guardians, policing wiki vandalism is very difficult.&nbsp; He thinks some vandals can be deterred by posting community rules. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-2t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}