{"id":4725,"date":"2012-07-30T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2012-07-30T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:50:42","slug":"journalism-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4725","title":{"rendered":"Journalism and Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/doc\/2012\/07\/30\/journalism-and-wikipedia\/\">Doc Searls<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Wikipedia is imperfect in countless ways. But at least it works, and its unambiguous purpose is to serve as a record. Every article has a history, and every revision can be found. Searches across the whole of any article\u2019s history (and across other variables) can be done. Again, it\u2019s not perfect, but improving it isn\u2019t out of the question, or in the hands of some .com or .org that might be sold.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking: Journalism, as a field, should be concerned with adding to the record that is Wikipedia. (Wikipedia clearly cares about journalism.) If you are a reporter or an editor, and you write something of worthy of citation in a Wikipedia article, maybe you should put it in there \u2014 or have somebody else do it \u2014 as a professional pro formality. Hey, why not?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls: Wikipedia is imperfect in countless ways. But at least it works, and its unambiguous purpose is to serve as a record. Every article has a history, and every revision can be found. Searches across the whole of any article\u2019s history (and across other variables) can be done. Again, it\u2019s not perfect, but improving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}