On 2/5/07, William Pietri william@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