{"id":1823,"date":"2009-02-15T03:27:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2009-02-15T03:28:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:28:58","slug":"jimmy-wales-likes-wikipedia-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/jimmy-wales-likes-wikipedia-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Wales likes Wikipedia Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right. The co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> has joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=75066111912\">Facebook Group<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\">Wikipedia Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for some credibility? If only <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion\/Wikipedia_Art\">these guys<\/a> agreed (still <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia_Art\">marked for deletion<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=75066111912\">The group<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png\">click image<\/a> to see that he is a member &#8211; this is for real, people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1824\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1824\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1824\" title=\"Facebook Group for Wikipedia: member name, Jimmy Wales\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2-300x259.png?resize=300%2C259\" alt=\"Facebook Group for Wikipedia: member name, Jimmy Wales\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png?w=982&amp;ssl=1 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Group for Wikipedia: member name, Jimmy Wales<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right. The co-founder of Wikipedia has joined the Facebook Group for Wikipedia Art. How&#8217;s that for some credibility? If only these guys agreed (still marked for deletion). The group. Or click image to see that he is a member &#8211; this is for real, people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[6,3,27,28,30,7,38,4,9,8,2,19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-creative-commons","category-ireland-art","category-links","category-me","category-milwaukee-art","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-tp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1939,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/jimmy-wales-talks-art-and-wikipedia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1823,"position":0},"title":"Jimmy Wales talks Art and Wikipedia","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 May 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Nice to see Jimbo talk about Art and Wikipedia. It's worth a read if only to hear how carefully Wikipedia's figure-head thinks and speaks in relation to notability and possibilities with arts coverage on Wikipedia. I agree with all of what he says (although it's admittedly very noncommittal - so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1239,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/25\/artist-in-residence-updatereview-so-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":1823,"position":1},"title":"iCommons iSummit Artist in Residence update\/review (so far)","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 June 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry for the delay on posting art, etc - internet was down at the hotel for ages. The conference has been amazing thus far. 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