the power of wiki’s
The popularity of wiki’s facinates me. The success of wikipedia astounds me. I even have friends who have installed their own personal wiki’s. My wife and I are using a wiki to write a book together. Simple, easy and amazingly powerful.
Here is a interesting article on wiki’s
‘Over the last six years, something incredible has happened. People all around the world who have no other connection to one other have come together to begin building a giant, free encyclopaedia. Because of its quasi-exponential rate of growth, the phenomenon has, in the last few months especially, been subject to some well-deserved attention, not to mention its fair share of scrutiny.
“There’s no way of knowing who wrote it. It’s not backed up – nobody will put their name to it,” this was what I was told by an otherwise liberal-minded professor from Wesleyan University in the United States, when I asked him what he thought of Wikipedia.’
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