{"id":723,"date":"2016-01-21T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/?p=723"},"modified":"2016-01-21T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:04:43","slug":"wikipedia-brown-and-the-case-of-the-half-baked-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/quickstudy\/2016\/01\/wikipedia-brown-and-the-case-of-the-half-baked-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Half-Baked Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrate it or hate it as you will,<\/strong> Wikipedia has metamorphosed from its beginnings as a gangly cultural interloper into the de facto reference work of first resort….. My column from last week on Wikipedia’s 15th birthday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in one of the Half-Baked Ideas to Save the World (is that trademarked?) offered at the Random Nerds blogazine, editor-in-chief Bryce Rudow makes the case for “A Wiki History Textbook.”<\/a> Actually it seems like the historians have been working in that direction — see my interview with the editors of The American Yawp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or, if you’re just here killing time…..<\/p>\n