{"id":2206,"date":"2012-03-25T23:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T22:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2012-03-25T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T22:25:10","slug":"qotd-long-discussions-cause-challenges-for-wikipedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/qotd-long-discussions-cause-challenges-for-wikipedians\/","title":{"rendered":"QOTD: long discussions cause challenges for Wikipedians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tldrwikipedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tldrwikipedia-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tldrwikipedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tldrwikipedia-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tldrwikipedia-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tldrwikipedia.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long discussions cause challenges for Wikipedians. That&#8217;s great motivation from some of my work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Such discussions can often present a challenge to the editor who steps up to close them; &#8220;no consensus&#8221; is a common outcome for convoluted debates, a lack of resolution that opens the possibility of discussion starting all over again as the same issues continue to arise. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost\/2012-03-19\/Discussion_report \">Wikipedia Signpost, 2012-03-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report also links to Wikipedia&#8217;s essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:TLDR\"> Too long; didn&#8217;t read<\/a>; image from <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/tldr\">KnowYourMeme&#8217;s coverage of tl;dr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long discussions cause challenges for Wikipedians. That&#8217;s great motivation from some of my work. Such discussions can often present a challenge to the editor who steps up to close them; &#8220;no consensus&#8221; is a common outcome for convoluted debates, a lack of resolution that opens the possibility of discussion starting all over again as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,174],"tags":[512,341,511,253],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentative-discussions","category-phd-diary","tag-coordination-on-wikipedia","tag-quotes","tag-tldr","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}