{"id":3590,"date":"2010-08-16T14:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2010-08-16T14:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:13:29","slug":"wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia : Lamest Edit Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Open-Source-Living\/143481129011476\">Open Source Living<\/a> comes a link to a Wikipedia page about&#8230; Wikipedia pages.\u00a0 Specifically the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars\"><strong>Lamest Edit Wars<\/strong><\/a> on Wikipedia pages.\u00a0 The list contains some thought-provoking debates, and some truly trivial arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of debates that became a big deal in Wikipedia lore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compact Disc or Compact disc?<\/li>\n<li>J.K. Rowling.\u00a0 Rhymes with &#8220;rolling&#8221; or &#8220;howling&#8221;.\u00a0 Apparently it doesn&#8217;t matter how she pronounces it.<\/li>\n<li>Color\/Flavor vs. Colour\/Flavour&#8230; etc.<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars:\u00a0 Is the Death Star 120km or 160km in diameter?\u00a0 Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker &#8211; one character or two?\u00a0 Which came first, Episode IV or Episode I?<\/li>\n<li>Daylight Saving Time or Daylight Savings Time?<\/li>\n<li>Was Fred G. Sanford an &#8220;irascible curmudgeon&#8221; or merely &#8220;irritable&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discuss&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the folks at Open Source Living comes a link to a Wikipedia page about&#8230; Wikipedia pages.\u00a0 Specifically the Lamest Edit Wars on Wikipedia pages.\u00a0 The list contains some thought-provoking debates, and some truly trivial arguments. Some highlights of debates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2927,2938,2952,2979],"tags":[4994,5354,5308,4242,4960,5386,3111],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-humor","category-online-services","category-wiki","tag-entertainmentculture","tag-humor","tag-open-source-living","tag-reference","tag-technologyinternet","tag-wiki","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-VU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}