{"id":479,"date":"2008-10-24T09:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2008-10-24T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:17:08","slug":"a-busy-day-at-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/a-busy-day-at-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy day at Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain&#8217;s running mate on August 29, 2008.  Shortly before the announcement, her Wikipedia page looked like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Sarah_Palin&#038;oldid=234967718\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About nine hours and 1100 edits after the announcement, the article was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Sarah_Palin&#038;oldid=235068581\">vastly different<\/a>, and much, much better.<\/p>\n<p>The example comes from an enjoyable talk by David Weinberger that I attended last night. Weinberger also runs a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/\">blog<\/a>, but note that, like many blogs, you need to look at the back catalogue to see what it&#8217;s like outside American election season.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I wonder what a graph of the frequency of edits to Palin&#8217;s page would show <em>before<\/em> the announcement, as compared with other contenders for the VP slot?  Her page does seem to get a remarkable amount of editing attention in the runup to the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain&#8217;s running mate on August 29, 2008. Shortly before the announcement, her Wikipedia page looked like this. About nine hours and 1100 edits after the announcement, the article was vastly different, and much, much better. The example comes from an enjoyable talk by David Weinberger that I attended last&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/a-busy-day-at-wikipedia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A busy day at Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikipedia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}