{"id":43,"date":"2007-06-27T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T12:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/06\/27\/said-you-were-smart-said-it-would-just-take-a-day-of-your-time\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T12:36:23","slug":"said-you-were-smart-said-it-would-just-take-a-day-of-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/06\/27\/said-you-were-smart-said-it-would-just-take-a-day-of-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Said you were smart, said it would just take a day of your time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No-one will ever start a serious general encyclopedia again on the &#8220;one smart person writes the whole thing&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aristotle\">Aristotle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_History_%28Pliny%29\">Pliny the Elder<\/a>) or &#8220;a bunch of smart people write the whole thing&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/\">Britannia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/brockhaus.de\/\">Brockhaus<\/a>) models &mdash; they\u2019ll use wikis and massive collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, no-one will ever start a serious specialist encyclopedia on the one-smart-person or bunch-of-smart-people models again, because wikis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikia.com\/\">already<\/a> do the job much better, much faster.<\/p>\n<p>For general encyclopedias the earlier models are already <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica#Corporate_structure\">economically unviable<\/a>; for specialist encyclopedias they\u2019re not only unviable but just can\u2019t produce as useful results nearly as quickly.<\/p>\n<p>(I haven&#8217;t posted this month because <a href=\"http:\/\/reddragdiva.livejournal.com\/423576.html\">Freda<\/a> has been keeping me busy. No, she doesn&#8217;t have a Wikipedia login yet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No-one will ever start a serious general encyclopedia again on the &#8220;one smart person writes the whole thing&#8221; (Aristotle, Pliny the Elder) or &#8220;a bunch of smart people write the whole thing&#8221; (Britannia, Brockhaus) models &mdash; they\u2019ll use wikis and massive collaboration. In fact, no-one will ever start a serious specialist encyclopedia on the one-smart-person &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/06\/27\/said-you-were-smart-said-it-would-just-take-a-day-of-your-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Said you were smart, said it would just take a day of your time.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}