How often do you use wikipedia?

What do you think of it?

Do you even know what the Wiki stands for?!

i like looking up all kinds of nonsense on wikipedia. i love that website.

i was just on it looking up H&M. i had no idea that store was from sweden! i thought it was british!

a friend of mine wanted to do a wikipedia entry on me but i guess he decided not to. ah well.

FruitToAttractBears said:

Sure. The first such software to be called a wiki, WikiWikiWeb, was named by Ward Cunningham. Cunningham remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so-called "Wiki Wiki" Chance RT-52 shuttle bus line that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web." "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication of "wiki", a Hawaiian-language word for fast. The word wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki (weekie, weekie). The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for "what I know is", which describes the knowledge contribution, storage, and exchange function.

2the9s said:

did you look that up on wikipedia?

2the9s said:

Oh sure, that's what they'd like you to think.

JasmineFire said:

It's fun and it's a pretty good source for a lot of different things. IIt's well written mostly and well documented.

As a reference tool, I love it.

Wasn't someone (Nikster?) going to do an entry for Prince.org?

JasmineFire said:

Don't be ridiculous.

2the9s said:

so far i haven't found prince.org on there but i also haven't looked for awhile.

The org broke on me for a few seconds and i went over to wikipedia and read about tina turner.

JasmineFire said:

So did I! Only I read about whether or not glass could be considered a liquid!

2the9s said:

can it be?

tom robbins thinks so...what does wikipedia think?

JasmineFire said:

They think not.

Though pitch is considered a liquid.

Check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...experiment

JasmineFire said:

at school we were taught it was, fluid dynamics or something? Supposedly old panes of glass are thicker at the top than at the bottom proving it is flowing, just VERY slowly because of it's superviscosity

or that could be completely untrue!

Okay, the Org went down yet again so I read about the Autokey cipher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...key_cipher

Okay, they don't have an entry for Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

2the9s said:

imagine the excitment when a drop fell!

ZombieKitten said:

Imagine if you missed it because you had to go to the bathroom!


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2the9s said:

but imagine if it had happened after everyone went home for the day!

ZombieKitten said:

I remember my 8th grade science teacher saying exactly that.

it's totally true

FruitToAttractBears said:

Is it? Maybe I read the article wrong.

2the9s said:

maybe 8th grade science teachers the world round are spreading LIES!

2the9s said:

No! Here it is:



http://en.wikipedia.org/w...s_a_liquid

2the9s said:

The bad thing about wiki is, you can't trust the articles.

FruitToAttractBears said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w..._Wikipedia

2the9s said:

I wouldn't trust that information

ZombieKitten said:

ZombieKitten said:

It's like those door-guarding things from the Labyrinth! How do you know which one to believe? There's no way to tell!

LOVE THAT SITE!

2the9s said:

I was very skeptical when I first heard about the nature of it, but I find I check it out all the time now. I still take everything there with a grain of salt, but to my surprise I generally find the articles well-written and edited.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia