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Wikipedia How often do you use wikipedia?
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Do you even know what the Wiki stands for?! | |
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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. | |
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FruitToAttractBears said: Do you even know what the Wiki stands for?!
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. | |
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2the9s said: FruitToAttractBears said: Do you even know what the Wiki stands for?!
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. did you look that up on wikipedia? | |
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2the9s said: FruitToAttractBears said: Do you even know what the Wiki stands for?!
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. Oh sure, that's what they'd like you to think. | |
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JasmineFire said: 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. 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? | |
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JasmineFire said: 2the9s 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. did you look that up on wikipedia? Don't be ridiculous. | |
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2the9s said: JasmineFire said: 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. 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? 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. | |
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JasmineFire said: 2the9s 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? 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. So did I! Only I read about whether or not glass could be considered a liquid! | |
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2the9s said: JasmineFire 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. So did I! Only I read about whether or not glass could be considered a liquid! can it be? tom robbins thinks so...what does wikipedia think? | |
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JasmineFire said: 2the9s said: So did I! Only I read about whether or not glass could be considered a liquid! can it be? tom robbins thinks so...what does wikipedia think? They think not. Though pitch is considered a liquid. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...experiment | |
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JasmineFire said: 2the9s said: So did I! Only I read about whether or not glass could be considered a liquid! can it be? tom robbins thinks so...what does wikipedia think? 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! | |
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Okay, the Org went down yet again so I read about the Autokey cipher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...key_cipher | |
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Okay, they don't have an entry for Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
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2the9s said: JasmineFire said: can it be? tom robbins thinks so...what does wikipedia think? They think not. Though pitch is considered a liquid. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...experiment imagine the excitment when a drop fell! | |
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ZombieKitten said: 2the9s said: They think not. Though pitch is considered a liquid. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...experiment imagine the excitment when a drop fell! Imagine if you missed it because you had to go to the bathroom! . [Edited 11/22/06 18:19pm] | |
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2the9s said: ZombieKitten said: imagine the excitment when a drop fell! but imagine if it had happened after everyone went home for the day! | |
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ZombieKitten said: JasmineFire said: can it be? tom robbins thinks so...what does wikipedia think? 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! I remember my 8th grade science teacher saying exactly that. it's totally true | |
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FruitToAttractBears said: ZombieKitten 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! I remember my 8th grade science teacher saying exactly that. it's totally true Is it? Maybe I read the article wrong. | |
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2the9s said: FruitToAttractBears said: I remember my 8th grade science teacher saying exactly that. it's totally true Is it? Maybe I read the article wrong. maybe 8th grade science teachers the world round are spreading LIES! | |
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2the9s said: FruitToAttractBears said: I remember my 8th grade science teacher saying exactly that. it's totally true Is it? Maybe I read the article wrong. No! Here it is: One common misconception is that glass is a liquid of practically infinite viscosity at room temperature and as such flows, though very slowly, similar to pitch. Glass is generally treated as an amorphous solid rather than a liquid, though different views can be justified since characterizing glass as either 'solid' or 'liquid' is not an entirely straightforward matter [3]. However, the notion that glass flows to an appreciable extent over extended periods of time is not supported by empirical evidence or theoretical analysis.
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2the9s said: FruitToAttractBears said: I remember my 8th grade science teacher saying exactly that. it's totally true Is it? Maybe I read the article wrong. The bad thing about wiki is, you can't trust the articles. | |
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FruitToAttractBears said: 2the9s said: Is it? Maybe I read the article wrong. The bad thing about wiki is, you can't trust the articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/w..._Wikipedia | |
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2the9s said: FruitToAttractBears said: The bad thing about wiki is, you can't trust the articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/w..._Wikipedia I wouldn't trust that information | |
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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! | |
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LOVE THAT SITE! I'M NOT SHOUTING, JEEZ! | |
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2the9s said: How often do you use wikipedia?
What do you think of it? 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. | |
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