{"id":19071,"date":"2013-02-18T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19071"},"modified":"2013-02-18T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:00:45","slug":"did-you-know-that-wikipedia-has-an-obsession-over-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/did-you-know-that-wikipedia-has-an-obsession-over-gibraltar\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know &#8230; that Wikipedia has an obsession over Gibraltar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d noticed one or two of these &#8220;Did you know&#8230;&#8221; entries on the <em>Wikipedia<\/em> site, but I didn&#8217;t realize just how much of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/02\/18\/wikipedia_gibraltar_fancy_that\/\" target=\"_blank\">fixation<\/a> the online encyclopedia has for &#8220;The Rock&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last October <em>Wikipedia<\/em>&#8216;s supreme leader Jimmy Wales called for a &#8220;strong moratorium&#8221; on the online project&#8217;s strange obsession with promoting Gibraltar &mdash; even suggesting a five-year ban on Gibraltar-loving Did You Know&#8230; posts on <em>Wikipedia<\/em>&#8216;s front page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is clear that there should be a strong moratorium on any Gibraltar-related DYKs on the front page of <em>Wikipedia<\/em>. I would recommend a total ban on them for five years, but that might be too extreme. I support that we get wider community attention on the issue,&#8221; he wrote in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>The moratorium was opposed by <em>Wiki<\/em> editors but they did agree on certain guidelines. Every Gibraltar DYK has to be reviewed by two reviewers to check for conflict-of-interest issues or promotionalism, and no more than one Gibraltarpedia hook is allowed in one a day. Also, Bamkin (user name Victuallers) is not allowed to create or nominate Gibraltar-related articles to DYK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jimmy Wales speaks, and <strong><em>Wikipedia<\/em> leaps into action<\/strong>. In December, they restricted themselves to a mere nine Gibraltar DYK entries. January saw 12 Gibraltarpedia links. As of today, there have been six Gibraltar-related posts in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d noticed one or two of these &#8220;Did you know&#8230;&#8221; entries on the Wikipedia site, but I didn&#8217;t realize just how much of a fixation the online encyclopedia has for &#8220;The Rock&#8221;: Last October Wikipedia&#8216;s supreme leader Jimmy Wales called for a &#8220;strong moratorium&#8221; on the online project&#8217;s strange obsession with promoting Gibraltar &mdash; even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[4,62,28],"tags":[886,444],"class_list":["post-19071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-media","tag-gibraltar","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4XB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19072,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions\/19072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}