{"id":1021,"date":"2006-09-12T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T21:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2006-09-12T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T21:41:28","slug":"wikipedia-and-brittitanica-and-worldviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wikipedia-and-brittitanica-and-worldviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia and Britannica and worldviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB115756239753455284-A4hdSU1xZOC9Y9PFhJZV16jFlLM_20070911.html?mod=blogs\">the striking conversation<\/a> between Jimmy Wales and Dale Hoiberg, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www,wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/\">Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a> respectively, and I suddenly had the strangest thought.<\/p>\n<p>These two publications represent completely different creations stories.<\/p>\n<p>Britannica is the Garden of Eden, a perfectly designed place that can only get worse as people tamper with it.  It is the &#8220;order to chaos&#8221; model and so it is surrounded with protection to keep it in it&#8217;s pristine form.<\/p>\n<p>(I was also surprised to read Mr. Hoiberg&#8217;s comment that the Britannica endeavours to represent all of human knowledge.  That seems absurd to me.)<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is the Ojibway creation story worldview, the one in which the animals help Giizhigokwe make a new world out of some soil and a turtle&#8217;s back.  In this model we move from chaos to order by inviting as many people as possible to come and contribute, knowing that things can only get better in general.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t thought of these two efforts as inhabiting the archetypes of world creation stories before.  I probably need to get out more!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tags]wikipedia, encyclopedia britannica, creation stories, jimmy wales, dale hoiberg[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the striking conversation between Jimmy Wales and Dale Hoiberg, from Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica respectively, and I suddenly had the strangest thought. These two publications represent completely different creations stories. Britannica is the Garden of Eden, a perfectly designed place that can only get worse as people tamper with it. It is the &#8220;order to chaos&#8221; model and so it is surrounded with protection to keep it in it&#8217;s pristine form. (I was also surprised to read Mr. Hoiberg&#8217;s comment that the Britannica endeavours to represent all of human knowledge. That seems absurd to me.) Wikipedia is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-gt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}