{"id":17285,"date":"2016-06-07T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=17285"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:58:42","slug":"wikipedia-envy-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/wikipedia-envy-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Envy Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a new 12,000-word article <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/science\/2016\/06\/what-is-open-access-free-sharing-of-all-human-knowledge\/\">&#8220;Open access: All human knowledge is there \u2014 so why can\u2019t everybody access it?&#8221;<\/a>. For those already versed in open access, it&#8217;s only really interesting for the final kicker idea&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As the price of storage continues to fall, and capacities increase, in the not-too-distant future it will be possible for most people to have a local copy of every academic paper ever written if they wish to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Otherwise the article seems a prime example of &#8216;Wikipedia Envy Syndrome&#8217;, an unfortunate trend increasingly common among long-form journalists. In which the reader is forced to work through page after page of potted history on the topic, in the hope that a few interesting insights or connections may eventually be made.  Which entails skim-reading that is fairly tedious on a Kindle ereader, and probably similarly annoying when slipping down the pages on a tablet.<\/p>\n<p>To overcome this problem might we not re-invent the sidebar, which is where such background matter really belongs?  For instance, one click on the button titled &#8220;I Know All This Already, Just Get To The Point&#8221; and the umpteen-page history-lesson-for-dummies would be snipped out and shunted to the foot of the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a new 12,000-word article &#8220;Open access: All human knowledge is there \u2014 so why can\u2019t everybody access &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/wikipedia-envy-syndrome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}