{"id":16220,"date":"2011-01-17T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2011-01-17T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T20:03:26","slug":"wikipedia-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2011\/01\/wikipedia-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

My friend Brannon, who hosts a great blog called Sanctifying Worship<\/a>, came across this story on Slate<\/a>. I think it\u2019s a fantastic example of the \u201chave it your way\u201d American Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Jesus of Wikipedia<\/h1>\n
Using Christ\u2019s page as a guide to the online encyclopedia\u2019s ten-year history.<\/em><\/p>\n
By\u00a0Chris Wilson<\/p>\n
At 1:12 a.m. on March 3, 2001, Jimmy Wales created a page for Jesus on a three-month-old site called\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>. \u201cJesus Christ is a central figure in Christianity,\u201d he wrote. The site\u2019s co-founder followed with a petition to his fellow first-generation editors: \u201cI fear great controversy if this encyclopedia entry isn\u2019t written well, and so I think we should all plunge in and duke it out quickly.\u201d Four months later, a user called \u201cHiram\u201d answered the call, changing \u201ca central figure\u201d to \u201cthe central figure\u201d and writing a respectable four-paragraph summary of the Biblical story of Jesus. \u201cAdded some details. Not enough, I know,\u201d he noted in the comments to his edit.<\/em><\/p>\n
Wikipedia turned 10 years old this week, and perhaps no entry better captures its chaotic ascendency than that of\u00a0Jesus Christ<\/a>. What follows is a brief history of Wikipedia Jesus\u2014his test, trials, and the chaotic world into which he was born.<\/em><\/p>\n
Jesus had a quiet adolescence, reared by well-behaved editors. Users fiddled with sentences and paragraphs, expanding on references and adding a broader accounting of his role in the Judaic religions. He was briefly promoted to the \u201cmost central figure in Christianity,\u201d but was restored to mere centrality in the next edit. The \u201cJews for Jesus\u201d made a brief appearance on his page in August of 2002, but were\u00a0removed<\/a> with a polite explanation as to why. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger occasionally ducked in to brush up little disputes.<\/em><\/p>\n
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My friend Brannon, who hosts a great blog called Sanctifying Worship, came across this story on Slate. I think it\u2019s a fantastic example of the \u201chave it your way\u201d American Jesus. \u00a0 Jesus of Wikipedia Using Christ\u2019s page as a guide to the online encyclopedia\u2019s ten-year history. By\u00a0Chris Wilson At 1:12 a.m. on March 3, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[389,230,872,14,875,878],"class_list":["post-16220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-american-jesus","tag-jesus","tag-jimmy-wales","tag-news","tag-slate","tag-wikipedia"],"yoast_head":"\nWikipedia Jesus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My friend Brannon, who hosts a great blog called Sanctifying Worship, came across this story on Slate. 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