I don't seek to excuse such an error for one second, but there is an important difference between the two : the Wordpress site is written
in XHTML 1.0 Transitional, a stable specification against which the
Validator can check pages accurately; the W3C site, on the other hand,
is written in HTML 5, a "work in progress", and as both the draft
specification and the validator can (and do) change on a daily basis,
validation here is very much a moving target.  One error is indeed
inexcusable :

Error Line 9, Column 39: No space between attributes.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"media="handheld, only screen and (max-dev…

the others may well have been valid at some point in time.

Philip Taylor
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Jon Reece wrote:

​Apparently, even the W3C have trouble keeping all of their pages
passing validation ;)

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/blog/dpub/2014/10/01/new-draft-for-the-requirements-for-latin-text-layout-and-pagination-published/
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