{"id":3701,"date":"2013-10-30T21:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2013-11-03T02:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T06:33:04","slug":"wikipedia-the-movie-the-maddest-thing-ive-seen-in-some-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/10\/30\/wikipedia-the-movie-the-maddest-thing-ive-seen-in-some-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia The Movie: the maddest thing I’ve read in some time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia The Movie<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a wiki-amusement started by Mark Pellegrini during the Chrome Age of Wikipedia, is hard to describe, and not exactly what you might expect. It is a surreal cataclysm of in-jokes pretzled together into a tilable shape. Its pieces have been polished by those who appreciate it: editors with a sense of humor, reflecting on a larger community whose relationship with humor is more nuanced. In short Dal\u00ed-scented scenes, and the language of cafeteria gossip, it captures something about the projects in a way that is honest to the madness of humanity. Enough to make any committed editor wince\/smile. \u00a0It makes me wonder what a similarly frank slice of subtext would look like for other large-scale projects. <\/p>\n

While I remember the original being written – not called ‘Episode 1’ at the time – I only discovered last year that it had been turned into a franchise, slowly unfolding year after year. And I can’t complain that I was\u00a0cast as<\/a> my favorite Shakespearean fragranceur.<\/p>\n\"Wikipedia<\/a>\n

And then there is the musical version. For you who have shared the private hallucinations of those who breathe too deep of lemony Huggle vapour, give over a few minutes of your day to a stroll down memory’s phantasmagoria:<\/p>\n

Wikipedia the Movie, Episode 1 <\/a> \u00b7\u00a0 Wikipedia: The Musical<\/a> <\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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