{"id":886,"date":"2008-10-08T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=886"},"modified":"2008-10-08T05:45:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T09:45:56","slug":"how-i-became-a-wikipedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/10\/08\/how-i-became-a-wikipedian\/","title":{"rendered":"How I became a Wikipedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had forgotten the long essay I wrote about this transition here on my blog&#8230; or rather, on my first law school blog, when <em>blogs.law<\/em> was new and cuddly. \u00a0My transition to the current wordpress <strong>skin<\/strong> made it more visible, new-found visibility online made it a repeated spam target, and I rediscovered it today. \u00a0So spam has done something good for me. \u00a0T<strong>hanks<\/strong>, <em>spam king<\/em>! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who missed it the first time around <strong>in early 2004<\/strong>, before I knew <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/09\/19\/how-wikipedia-works\/\">how wikipedia works<\/a> or even that it was community owned and run. \u00a0Here it is again: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/01\/28\/multilingual-encyclopedia-and-dictionary-public-domain\/\">On Multilingual Encyclopedia and Dictionary (public domain)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had forgotten the long essay I wrote about this transition here on my blog&#8230; or rather, on my first law school blog, when blogs.law was new and cuddly. \u00a0My transition to the current wordpress skin made it more visible, new-found visibility online made it a repeated spam target, and I rediscovered it today. \u00a0So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"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":[206,205,211,1],"tags":[3238,1201,78845],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod","category-glory-glory-glory","category-international","category-uncategorized","tag-multilingual","tag-public-domain","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-ei","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}