{"id":18979,"date":"2016-01-15T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2016-01-15T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:44:29","slug":"is-wikipedia-the-best-site-on-the-web-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18979","title":{"rendered":"Is Wikipedia the best site on the web?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the title of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/IT2007#Review40\">a column<\/a> that I wrote eight years ago. At the time,\u00a0Wikipedia had 8 million articles in more than 250 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The amazing site is 15 years old this week and now has over 38 million articles, over 5 million articles in English alone. I use it all the time as a starting point for many inquiries and I contribute small sums to its funding.<\/p>\n<p>You can read how Wikipedia changed the world <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/wikipedia\/12100516\/How-Wikipedia-changed-the-world.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the title of a column that I wrote eight years ago. At the time,\u00a0Wikipedia had 8 million articles in more than 250 languages. The amazing site is 15 years old this week and now has over 38 million articles, over 5 million articles in English alone. I use it all the time as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}