{"id":614,"date":"2009-01-27T00:23:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2009-01-27T00:51:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:51:45","slug":"britannica-to-follow-wikipedia-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/britannica-to-follow-wikipedia-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Britannica to follow Wikipedia.  Twas inevitable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Encyclopaedia Brittanica is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7846986.stm\">adopting some of the open management approach of Wikipedia<\/a> to improve its product.  Readers and contributing experts will help expand and maintain entries online.  I don&#8217;t suppose it will have the vibrancy of Wikipedia, but it is testament to the power of open systems.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7851400.stm\">Wikipedia is proposing a system of flagged revisions<\/a>, which would mean any changes made by a new or unknown user would have to be approved by one of the site&#8217;s editors, before the changes were published.\u00a0 This discussion has been ongoing for some time.\u00a0 And might be more appropriate now than when Wikipedia was nascent because of its depth and breadth of coverage and authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encyclopaedia Brittanica is adopting some of the open management approach of Wikipedia to improve its product. Readers and contributing experts will help expand and maintain entries online. I don&#8217;t suppose it will have the vibrancy of Wikipedia, but it is testament to the power of open systems. Meanwhile, Wikipedia is proposing a system of flagged &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/britannica-to-follow-wikipedia-inevitable\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Britannica to follow Wikipedia.  Twas inevitable.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-9U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}