{"id":19,"date":"2007-10-16T07:57:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-10-16T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T07:57:18","slug":"faulty-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/19-faulty-encyclopedia.html","title":{"rendered":"Faulty Encyclopedia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really old news, but I figured not everybody knew it so I guess I will repeat it here anyway. This is the case that the new collaborative workings of the internet is one-upping an old institution. Wikipedia has, as we all know, some errors in it, they are continously corrected of course. The thing is that some of the competition also has problems, and since it&#8217;s printed it&#8217;s not that easy to change as Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>If you visit this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop\u00e6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia\">page<\/a> you can read Wikipedia&#8217;s list of errors in Encyclopedia Britannica. Some of the errors are a bit bigger than I would have guessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really old news, but I figured not everybody knew it so I guess I will repeat it here anyway. This is the case that the new collaborative workings of the internet is one-upping an old institution. Wikipedia has, as we all know, some errors in it, they are continously corrected of course. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,23,26,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-19","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-internet","7":"tag-britannica-encyclopedia","8":"tag-humor","9":"tag-wiki","10":"tag-wikipedia","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xqPf-j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40,"url":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/40-the-10-most-puzzling-ancient-artifacts-really.html","url_meta":{"origin":19,"position":0},"title":"The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts. 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