{"id":591,"date":"2004-03-24T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2004\/03\/24\/german-primers-online-last-wikiplug-fo"},"modified":"2004-03-24T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T19:07:14","slug":"german-primers-online-last-wikiplug-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/03\/24\/german-primers-online-last-wikiplug-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"German Primers online:  Last Wikiplug for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a407'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Well, my infatuation is only growing stronger, but I think I&#8217;ll go back to posting about communication and general dissemination of ideas and hold off on the wikilinks for a while.&nbsp; First, however, I want to share one of the <EM>recent results<\/EM> of the <STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.wikibooks.org\">Wikibooks<\/A><\/STRONG> project:&nbsp; A colorful, neatly laid-out <A href=\"http:\/\/wikibooks.org\/wiki\/German\">German primer<\/A> for English-speakers, with audio files and external references (to websites and texts), broken into three levels of advancement.&nbsp; In all, this is probably the equivalent of a <STRONG>full<\/STRONG> <STRONG>year<\/STRONG> of university German; I suppose that means that in print the text(s) would run you some $60.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>This trio of texts&nbsp;is complete now, though still undergoing&nbsp;quiet improvements;&nbsp;the project to develop this book was begun <STRONG>six months<\/STRONG> ago.&nbsp; Of course many of the people who contributed had been gatharing their own private notes and images for years prior to that, but this is how life goes &#8212; 99% of all usefully-collated information gets packed up in a box and eventually recycled&#8230; as tree pulp, not as information.&nbsp; A non-rival award of two <STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.oofm.com\">oofm<\/A><\/STRONG> to those who <STRONG>reuse<\/STRONG>&nbsp;such order&nbsp;instead.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wikibooks.org\/wiki\/German'>German Primers online:  Last Wikiplug for a while &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my infatuation is only growing stronger, but I think I&#8217;ll go back to posting about communication and general dissemination of ideas and hold off on the wikilinks for a while.&nbsp; First, however, I want to share one of the recent results of the Wikibooks project:&nbsp; A colorful, neatly laid-out German primer for English-speakers, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"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_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":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glory-glory-glory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-9x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}