{"id":226,"date":"2005-06-21T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T10:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2005-06-21T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T10:24:42","slug":"on_second_thought_wikis_are_ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/on_second_thought_wikis_are_ha\/","title":{"rendered":"on second thought&#8230; (wikis are hard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times has temporarily <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.latimesinteractive.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Wikitorial\">shelved<\/a> its plans for running &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-ednote12jun12,0,3840544.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials\">wikatorials<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; editorials that any reader can edit &#8211; due to a flood of &#8220;inappropriate material.&#8221; The whole experiement with wikis was a risky move for a well-established newspaper to take, and it&#8217;s not surprising that they immediately panicked once the riff raff showed up. It&#8217;s hard to establish an open, collaborative environment from the top-down. Whereas, if you start from a point of low stakes, with little prestige on the line (as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:About\">Wikipedia<\/a> did), then the enterprise can evolve slowly, embarrassing missteps, spam and all.<br \/>\nSomeone should start an experiment: dump the LA Times content in a non-affiliated wiki and try the wikatorials there. Give it time, let the community build, work out the hiccups, and then give the LA Times a call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times has temporarily shelved its plans for running &#8220;wikatorials&#8221; &#8211; editorials that any reader can edit &#8211; due to a flood of &#8220;inappropriate material.&#8221; The whole experiement with wikis was a risky move for a well-established newspaper to take, and it&#8217;s not surprising that they immediately panicked once the riff raff showed up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547,1861],"tags":[2608],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-broadcast-and-the-press","category-the_networked_book","tag-latimes-newspaper-media-journalism-wiki-wikatorial-wikipedia-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}