{"id":1514,"date":"2009-01-15T19:52:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/happy-8th-birthday-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:52:47","slug":"happy-8th-birthday-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/happy-8th-birthday-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 8th Birthday Wikipedia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago today Jimmy Wales created <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia#History\">Wikipedia<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s been that long. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Wikipedia\">Wikipedia<\/a> has become one of the senior sites on the web, growing from a top 1000 site shortly after its creation to the fourth most visited site on the web in the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>And on its eight birthday Wikipedia exists in 265 languages and well over 10million articles &#8211; with thousands and thousands of active editors.<\/p>\n<p>This morning Jimmy conducted an interview on CBC Radio\u2019s \u201cQ\u201d &#8211; a national morning show broadcast across Canada and on Sirius satellite radio.\u00a0 The interview will be ported to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/podcasting\/pastpodcasts.html?42#ref42\">podcast<\/a> a bit later today.\u00a0 Take a listen to hear the founder recount the history of one of the greatest projects on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the volunteers who have built Wikipedia from a grand idea to a truly grand project.\u00a0\u00a0Thumbs up\u00a0to many more years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago today Jimmy Wales created Wikipedia.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s been that long. Wikipedia has become one of the senior sites on the web, growing from a top 1000 site shortly after its creation to the fourth most visited site on the web in the last few months. And on its eight birthday Wikipedia exists in 265<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/happy-8th-birthday-wikipedia\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy 8th Birthday Wikipedia!&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}