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dermotti
March 9th, 2005, 10:03 PM
What is a Wiki? Man took me forever to figure out what a blog was , now this!
krusbjorn
March 9th, 2005, 10:06 PM
look it up in the largest wiki there is!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ;)
lordofkhemenu
March 9th, 2005, 10:58 PM
All this time of using Wikis and I never knew it has Portland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Pattern_Repository), Oregon connections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham).\\:D/
Sleeping at the wheel again.:???:
jwb
March 9th, 2005, 11:11 PM
So what keeps me from goin ginto the wikipedia and changing the entry for "Ohio River" to read "Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

I don't like the name. Wiki. Wiki, wiki. Sounds like the Budweiser ferret.

Remember the lizards? "Wiki, wiki? What's that mean, Frankie?"

Maybe they should have called it lightpost, or Penelope.
DJ_Max
March 9th, 2005, 11:17 PM
A wiki is simply a system where anyone can add, or edit articles. Such as http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org
dermotti
March 9th, 2005, 11:27 PM
Where does the name Wiki come from?
DJ_Max
March 9th, 2005, 11:43 PM
Where does the name Wiki come from?
"Wiki wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word, which means "quick" or "super-fast"
BorgHunter
March 9th, 2005, 11:49 PM
So what keeps me from goin ginto the wikipedia and changing the entry for "Ohio River" to read "Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"
Absolutely nothing. You could do that right now if you wanted to (though I would hope you wouldn't). It would be reverted back in about 30 seconds, though, because the enormous number of people working on Wikipedia would notice that you just deleted an entire article...