{"id":1033,"date":"2006-09-09T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2006-09-09T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T03:30:18","slug":"washington-post-writes-the-fear-of-wikipedia-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post writes the &#8220;fear of wikipedia&#8221; article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post is running a version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/09\/AR2006090900085.html\">mainstream media &#8220;concern troll&#8221; article<\/a> about Wikipedia.    Parents and teachers are dismayed that kids are plagiarizing homework assignments from Wikipedia.  The answer comes from a new product from AOL, called &#8220;Study Buddy&#8221;, which, er, contains authorized material for kids to plagiarize from?   The answer, of course, that kids are supposed to be learning critical thinking skills. They&#8217;re not supposed to be plagiarizing articles from the World Book Encyclopedia either. They are supposed to be learning to look up more than one source.<br \/>\nThe article sniffs that &#8220;User-created content, such as entries found in Wikipedia, the open-to-most online encyclopedia, comes with varying degrees of trustworthiness.&#8221; Of course, and human-created content comes with varying degrees of trustworthiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post is running a version of the mainstream media &#8220;concern troll&#8221; article about Wikipedia. Parents and teachers are dismayed that kids are plagiarizing homework assignments from Wikipedia. The answer comes from a new product from AOL, called &#8220;Study Buddy&#8221;, which, er, contains authorized material for kids to plagiarize from? The answer, of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Washington Post writes the &#8220;fear of wikipedia&#8221; article&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-gF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}