{"id":739,"date":"2006-06-19T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2006\/06\/19\/wikipedia-nation-how-not-to-steal-a-si"},"modified":"2006-06-19T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T16:32:28","slug":"wikipedia-nation-how-not-to-steal-a-sidekick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2006\/06\/19\/wikipedia-nation-how-not-to-steal-a-sidekick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia nation : How not to steal a sidekick 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1265'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, entering the factory to see how <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">sausages <\/span>are made can be fascinating and rewarding.&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wikipedia <\/span>is a fun factory in this regard; you never know if you&#8217;re going to be rewarded or confused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion\/How_NOT_to_steal_a_SideKick_2\">How NOT to steal a Sidekick 2<\/a>&#8221; was an article created last week based on an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">internet meme<\/span>, garnering 70+ edits before being deleted for insufficient notability (not to mention poor article titling).&nbsp; The deletion discussion I linked to above ran for a standard 5 days, and included new and veteran contributors to the site (as most such do).&nbsp; It demonstrates many aspects of how this new breed of information amateur (in the traditional sense) is helping define relevance, utility, and authority (in the authority file sense) online. <\/p>\n<p>The motivations and suggestsions made on that page are fascinating, and make me proud to be part of that community.&nbsp; As does the ever-improving <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style\">Manual of Style<\/a>; one of the three great Wikipedian products&#8230; but that&#8217;s a thought for another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, entering the factory to see how sausages are made can be fascinating and rewarding.&nbsp; Wikipedia is a fun factory in this regard; you never know if you&#8217;re going to be rewarded or confused. &#8220;How NOT to steal a Sidekick 2&#8221; was an article created last week based on an internet meme, garnering 70+ edits [&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":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-bV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}