{"id":149,"date":"2008-05-31T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T01:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:01:54","slug":"laws-sausages-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Laws, Sausages, and Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want a sense of the dynamic <em>behind<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> <em>administration<\/em>, then read <div style=\"padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration\/C68-FM-SV\">Requests for arbitration\/C68-FM-SV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration\/C68-FM-SV\">its discussion page<\/a>,<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration\/C68-FM-SV\/Evidence\">the evidence page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration\/C68-FM-SV\/Evidence\">the discussion page for the evidence page<\/a>,<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration\/C68-FM-SV\/Workshop\">the proposed remedies workshop<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration\/C68-FM-SV\/Workshop\">the discussion page for the remedies workshop<\/a><\/div> (If you're only going to read <em>one<\/em> of these pages, then I would suggest that it be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration\/C68-FM-SV\/Evidence\">the evidence page<\/a>.) <abbr title=\"for what it's worth\">FWIW<\/abbr>, I recognize some of the disputants as villains, and some of the others as either villains or rather great fools; I <em>don't<\/em> know, one way or the other, about the rest.  It's quite possible that some are fine people, or that all are jerks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want a sense of the dynamic behind Wikipedia administration, then read Requests for arbitration\/C68-FM-SV, its discussion page,the evidence page, the discussion page for the evidence page,the proposed remedies workshop, and the discussion page for the remedies workshop (If you're only going to read one of these pages, then I would suggest that it [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,104,4],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-information-technology","category-news","category-public","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}