{"id":2466,"date":"2008-06-05T00:07:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T04:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2008-06-05T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T04:07:26","slug":"search-wikipedia-for-the-word-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/06\/05\/search-wikipedia-for-the-word-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Wikipedia for the word &#8220;lame&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Props to Michael Geist for holding the government&#8217;s feet to the fire for editing the Industry Minister&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/2999\/125\/\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>. Not just because it&#8217;s unseemly for agents of the current administration (or any administration, for that matter) to be editing Wikipedia entries directly, but also because what they added was so, well&#8230; lame. I can understand removing controversial comments about whether Prentice delayed the proposed copyright legislation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/06\/04\/industry-canada-invo.html\">as a result of<\/a> public pressure (which Michael was instrumental in helping to orchestrate). Some of what was written arguably breached the site&#8217;s &#8220;neutral point of view&#8221; requirements. But at the same time, adding phrases like &#8220;he is widely praised in both political and private circles, as he personifies experience, confidence and competence, ability and capability&#8221; not only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2008\/06\/04\/tech-prentice.html?ref=rss\">breaches those rules<\/a>, but breaches the nausea rule as well. Lame, lame, lame.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Props to Michael Geist for holding the government&#8217;s feet to the fire for editing the Industry Minister&#8217;s Wikipedia entry. Not just because it&#8217;s unseemly for agents of the current administration (or any administration, for that matter) to be editing Wikipedia entries directly, but also because what they added was so, well&#8230; lame. I can understand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/06\/05\/search-wikipedia-for-the-word-lame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Search Wikipedia for the word &#8220;lame&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}