{"id":1078,"date":"2007-10-01T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T07:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2007-10-01T07:45:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T07:45:45","slug":"wikipedias_growing_pains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/wikipedias_growing_pains\/","title":{"rendered":"wikipedia&#8217;s growing pains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insularity, editorial abuses, jargon, anonymity, power&#8230; some of the difficulties that beset the great public knowledge experiment of our day. Our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/\">Karen Schneider<\/a> has a smart piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/141650\/Wikipedia_s_Awkward_Adolescence\/1\">Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;awkward adolescence.&#8221;<\/a> Worth a read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Like a startup maturing into a real business, Wikipedia&#8217;s corporate culture seems, at times, conflicted between its role as a harmless nouveau-digital experiment and its broader ambitions.<br \/>\n&#8230;The quieter rumblings about Wikipedia have less to do with vanity edits or poor maintenance of content than they do with the organization&#8217;s increasingly arbitrary editorial overrides and deletions and rapidly thickening in-group culture.<br \/>\n&#8230;Sock puppets, spy-versus-spy hijinks, and super-secret-vocabularies may be fine for a short-term experiment in information management; but Wikipedia positions itself not as a free encyclopedia, but <\/i>the<i> free encyclopedia. A FAQ claims, &#8220;We want Wikipedia to be around at least a hundred years from now, if it does not turn into something even more significant,&#8221; and Wikipedia&#8217;s fundraising page asks potential donors to &#8220;Imagine a world in which every single person can share freely in the sum of human knowledge.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insularity, editorial abuses, jargon, anonymity, power&#8230; some of the difficulties that beset the great public knowledge experiment of our day. Our friend Karen Schneider has a smart piece on Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;awkward adolescence.&#8221; Worth a read. Like a startup maturing into a real business, Wikipedia&#8217;s corporate culture seems, at times, conflicted between its role as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,2016],"tags":[3053],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-wikipedia","tag-wikipedia-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}