{"id":81,"date":"2005-06-13T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-06-13T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T10:30:24","slug":"magnificently-constructive-udell-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Magnificently constructive Udell post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always glad to see another Jon Udell post come up in my RSS feeds, though some of them are beyond me. Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2005\/06\/13.html#a1249\">Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge<\/a> is an especially graceful bit of teaching, reminding us that Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;radical transparency&#8221; is really a better mousetrap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some knowledge is purely factual, but much is socially constructed and therefore inevitably prone to bias and dispute. Wikipedia&#8217;s greatest innovation is arguably the framework it provides to mediate the social construction of knowledge, advocate for neutrality, accommodate dispute, and offer a path to its negotiated resolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Udell also points us to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:NPOV_disputes\">a list of disputed topics<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial_issues\">a list of previously controversial issues<\/a>. I&#8217;d love to see (and so I suppose should make myself&#8230;) a screencast of the podcast revision contretemps, but beyond the soap opera dimensions of that food fight lurk some really interesting ideas about the uses of the wiki medium.<br \/>\nAddendum: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/archive\/2005\/06\/14\/automati.shtml\">waxy.org<\/a> prods the clever to automate: &#8220;I&#8217;d love to see a tool for animating Wikipedia history for a given entry or block of text&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always glad to see another Jon Udell post come up in my RSS feeds, though some of them are beyond me. Today&#8217;s Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge is an especially graceful bit of teaching, reminding us that Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;radical transparency&#8221; is really a better mousetrap: Some knowledge is purely factual, but much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}