{"id":1101,"date":"2006-03-12T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2006-03-12T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T17:48:53","slug":"digital-domain-on-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/digital-domain-on-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Domain on Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1074\">A while back I had a chat and exchanged some email<\/a> with Randy Stross, author of the NYTimes Digital Domain column, about Wikipedia.  I may have been amusing and even on target, but I didn&#8217;t make the article. Randy had a much better source in Jimmy Wales and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/12\/business\/yourmoney\/12digi.html\">that lead to a good article that saw ink today<\/a>.<br \/>\nI disagree with Randy and his headline writer, who wrote <em>Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source<\/em>, and Jeff Bates, who is quoted as saying that &#8220;Every Open Source project has a benevolent dictator who takes responsibility&#8221; and that &#8220;everyone puts their name on it.&#8221; Well, yes the headline writer is right, but not quite. Open Source projects that I&#8217;ve been in and around hardly ever contend with questions of anonymity at all. I mean, it never comes up. It may or may not be the case that it is good or bad in Open Source to be anonymous. It&#8217;s just that like pigs flying it never happens.<br \/>\nWriting though has a different history, be it history, fiction, reporting, or even the &#8220;Federalist Papers.&#8221; Or encyclopedian. Or Wikipedia and its kin. Somehow the consequences in this kind of writing begs for the sometimes covert cover of anonymity or pseudo-anonymity. It has for ages and ages. I don&#8217;t expect that to change. Anonymous writer or sourced author doesn&#8217;t make the writing more true. Ask Jonathan Frey or Nadijj or Belle de Jour or Steven Glass or Jason Blair or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I had a chat and exchanged some email with Randy Stross, author of the NYTimes Digital Domain column, about Wikipedia. I may have been amusing and even on target, but I didn&#8217;t make the article. Randy had a much better source in Jimmy Wales and that lead to a good article that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}