[Wikipedia-l] Re: Steve Jobs on Wikipedia

Tim Starling t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au
Wed Jun 8 04:47:25 UTC 2005


Bernd Kulawik wrote:
> Quote:
> 
> "This is a favourite of mine: Wikipedia. For those of you who don't 
> know: This is an Open Source encyclopedia where everybody contributes 
> to it. It has now become one of the most robust and certainly  accurate
> encyclopedias in the world because you got experts from all  over the
> world contributing to it. And we just look up "tiger" in  here, and you
> get the low-down (?) on all kinds of tigers. So that's  Wikipedia and
> it's great."
> 
> Maybe I made some mistake in understanding or spelling ...


>From WordNet 2.0:

  low-down
       n : slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight
           dope?" [syn: dope, poop, the skinny]


-- Tim Starling




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