{"id":3218,"date":"2012-01-18T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2012-01-19T23:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T06:00:22","slug":"wikipedia-takes-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Takes a Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to visit the Wikipedia site today, specifically the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">English language Wikipedia site<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see a message about a world without free knowledge. I have some issues with that.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe reason Wikipedia, along with other sites, is protesting is because of pending legislation in Your Nation&#8217;s Capital regarding copyright protection.<\/p>\n<p>I like my copyrights protected, thank you. I think thieves should be punished, and I think ISPs and web sites need to be responsible, even if it&#8217;s merely a link to pirated material. That&#8217;s because I lose money ever day from pirated copies of my work. It sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia obviously feels different. That&#8217;s okay. They distribute mediocre, barely-accurate, crowd-sourced information. It&#8217;s not terrible, but it&#8217;s not the same high quality as you can get when you &#8212; Oh, I don&#8217;t know &#8212; buy a book.<\/p>\n<p>So Wikipedia can take its holiday. I don&#8217;t think it will prove anything, other than driving people elsewhere for their free, mediocre information.<\/p>\n<p>And if you really want to use Wikipedia, get the Chrome browser and visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">French language Wikipedia site<\/a>. Then click the button on top of the browser window to translate the page into English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I wrote this post for Wednesday, January 18. Sadly, I screwed up the scheduling software, so it didn&#8217;t appear until 36 hours later. The Wikipedia shutdown is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to visit the Wikipedia site today, specifically the English language Wikipedia site, you&#8217;ll see a message about a world without free knowledge. I have some issues with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}