{"id":231,"date":"2005-06-23T07:52:48","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T07:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2005-06-23T07:52:48","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T07:52:48","slug":"letter_to_the_wikitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/letter_to_the_wikitor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;letter to the wikitor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Mayfield from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/many\/archives\/2005\/06\/22\/letter_to_the_wikitor.php\">Many 2 Many<\/a> was dismayed when the LA Times hurriedly <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/on_second_thoug.html\">cancelled its &#8220;wikatorials&#8221;<\/a> experiment after a single, unpleasant spate of vandalism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m still a bit irked that the LA Times Editors shut down the Wikitorials community. I started to become engaged in the community and saw promise. They shut it down without warning and without thinking things through to begin with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So he&#8217;s leading the charge on a community-penned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.net\/supernova\/index.cgi?open_letter_to_the_la_times_editors\">letter to the editor<\/a> on (you guessed it) a wiki, to perhaps breathe a little warmth into cold feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Mayfield from Many 2 Many was dismayed when the LA Times hurriedly cancelled its &#8220;wikatorials&#8221; experiment after a single, unpleasant spate of vandalism: I&#8217;m still a bit irked that the LA Times Editors shut down the Wikitorials community. I started to become engaged in the community and saw promise. They shut it down without [&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],"tags":[3037],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-broadcast-and-the-press","tag-wiki-wikatorials-newspaper-journalism-media-community-online-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}