{"id":122,"date":"2005-04-04T14:04:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T14:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2005-04-04T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T14:04:33","slug":"britannica_storms_wikipedia_ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/britannica_storms_wikipedia_ne\/","title":{"rendered":"britannica storms wikipedia &#8211; networked accumulatio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wikipediaSurvivorTee.png\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/wikipediaSurvivorTee.png\" width=\"153\" height=\"154\" align=\"right\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"30\" height=\"154\" align=\"right\"> Beginning on as an april fool&#8217;s prank, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia\">Britannica&#8217;s hostile takeover of Wikipedia<\/a> has snowballed over the past few days into a sprawling collaborative goof-off on a nerdy conspiracy theory. The article is currently being considered for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Guide_to_Votes_for_deletion\">deletion<\/a>, or consignment to Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BJAODN\">Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense<\/a> archive. A funny specimen of web <a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.byu.edu\/rhetoric\/Figures\/A\/accumulatio.htm\">accumulatio<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/infocult.typepad.com\/infocult\/2005\/04\/britannica_capt.html\">Infocult<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning on as an april fool&#8217;s prank, Britannica&#8217;s hostile takeover of Wikipedia has snowballed over the past few days into a sprawling collaborative goof-off on a nerdy conspiracy theory. The article is currently being considered for deletion, or consignment to Wikipedia&#8217;s Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense archive. A funny specimen of web accumulatio (thanks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1861],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_networked_book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","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=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}