On 2/5/07, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
"I wiki'd it" will probably be
used. People already use "wiki" to mean
"Wikipedia."
I hadn't come across this before, but no sooner did David mention this
than I saw a link titled "What did you Wiki today and why?" leading to a
discussion thread where people talk about their Wikipedia experiences:
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.773c4efd
You'll find people using "wiki" as a verb for searching or looking
something up on Wikipedia, and they use it a lot as a noun. E.g.: " I
have to do a lot of research on cancer-related topics and Wiki is
surprisingly good for that." It's also a nice collection of
average-citizen reactions to and interactions with Wikipedia, which I
find endlessly fascinating.
William
Thanks for the link; it's always interesting to see what people actually
find the site useful for.
Though, "Wiki" as a noun meaning Wikipedia? Ugh, ugh, ugh. Surely we can do
better things than that to the language; people already have a hard time
differentiated other wikis vs Wikipedia. "Wiki'd" as a verb is not as bad,
but 'whipped' (under any spelling) is better.
-- phoebe
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