{"id":670,"date":"2004-10-26T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2004\/10\/26\/guardian-youd-be-insane-to-bet-against"},"modified":"2004-10-26T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T18:55:10","slug":"guardian-youd-be-insane-to-bet-against-wikimania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/10\/26\/guardian-youd-be-insane-to-bet-against-wikimania\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian :  &#8220;you&#8217;d be insane to bet against Wikimania&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a570'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the stars from headliners past comes out of the woodwork for this one : <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.siliconvalley.com\/column\/dangillmor\/\">Dan Gillmor<\/a>, web guru; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/10\/27#a573\">Dale Hoiberg<\/a>, <a href=\"\">Britannica editor-in-chief; a mention of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/10\/04#a541\">c&#8217;t content review<\/a>; the <a href=\"\">IBM research paper<\/a> on how quickly vandalism gets removed; a token naysaying librarian (&#8220;<i>practically, I wouldn&#8217;t use it; and I&#8217;m not aware of a single librarian who would.<\/i>&#8220;); a charming anachronism (in this case, the spectre of retro-cased <b>BarnStars<\/b> being used as universal rewards for good deeds done); a hopeful glance toward the horizon and <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia 1.0\">Wikipedia 1.0 &#8212; <i>Stable Edition<\/i><\/a>.  It&#8217;s like down-home week on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Press coverage\">&#8220;In the Press&#8221; <\/a>page.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a great article.  It touches on <b>a hundred facets<\/b> of the project with only the smallest of misperceptions.  It seems to have had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steinsky.me.uk\/images\/G2_wikipedia.jpg\">prominent placement<\/a> on Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.guardian.co.uk\/guardian20041026.jpg\">front page<\/a>&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/news\/0,12597,1335892,00.html'>Guardian :  &#8220;you&#8217;d be insane to bet against Wikimania&#8221; &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the stars from headliners past comes out of the woodwork for this one : Dan Gillmor, web guru; Dale Hoiberg, Britannica editor-in-chief; a mention of the c&#8217;t content review; the IBM research paper on how quickly vandalism gets removed; a token naysaying librarian (&#8220;practically, I wouldn&#8217;t use it; and I&#8217;m not aware of a [&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-670","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-aO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}