For your light amusement, my attempt at predicting what Wikipedia will be like in 5 years:
http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-will-wikipedia-be-like-5-ye...
-Ragesoss
On 03/02/07, Sage Ross sage.ross@yale.edu wrote:
For your light amusement, my attempt at predicting what Wikipedia will be like in 5 years:
http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-will-wikipedia-be-like-5-ye...
-Ragesoss
Interesting read. All features we want and which would be of benefit to Wikipedia.
Sage Ross wrote:
For your light amusement, my attempt at predicting what Wikipedia will be like in 5 years:
http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-will-wikipedia-be-like-5-ye...
So if we call the "necessary" improvements N1-N6, and the "hoped-for" improvements H1-H3: N2 and N4 have the Foundation's attention and will probably be done soon. N1 and H2 have had some developer interest. Probably not enough in the case of N1, due to competition from the commercial search engines, although limited improvements are likely. N3 is simple and just needs an interested developer. For N5 and N6 there's Semantic MediaWiki, which has a strong developer community and may produce something useful sooner or later. H3 has a great deal of demand behind it, and several things in this area should be implemented within a month or two. H1 has little demand or developer interest, so if you want it then you'd better start lobbying.
-- Tim Starling
On 2/3/07, Sage Ross sage.ross@yale.edu wrote:
For your light amusement, my attempt at predicting what Wikipedia will be like in 5 years:
http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-will-wikipedia-be-like-5-ye...
You're looking for a "google it" analogon? A suitable pesudo-verb to shorten "I looked it up on wikipedia" might be "I wp'd it" (pronounced "I whipped it").
This might cause confusion in the BDSM scene, though. It might also trigger baseless accusations from the animal protection people. But then, so could "mouse driver".
Magnus
On 05/02/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
You're looking for a "google it" analogon? A suitable pesudo-verb to shorten "I looked it up on wikipedia" might be "I wp'd it" (pronounced "I whipped it").
"I wiki'd it" will probably be used. People already use "wiki" to mean "Wikipedia."
- d.
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
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
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 2/5/07 8:27 PM, phoebe ayers at phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
"Wiki'd" as a verb is not as bad, but 'whipped' (under any spelling) is better.
'whipped' or, perhaps, 'whiked'?
Marc
I think we're a bit late to the party. If only this mailing list was the Académie française of English.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiki (currently 34 up, 34 down) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiki+it
-- Tim Starling
On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:19, Tim Starling wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 2/5/07 8:27 PM, phoebe ayers at phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
"Wiki'd" as a verb is not as bad, but 'whipped' (under any spelling) is better.
'whipped' or, perhaps, 'whiked'?
Marc
I think we're a bit late to the party. If only this mailing list was the Académie française of English.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiki (currently 34 up, 34 down) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiki+it
-- Tim Starling
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wik+it+up
That one's not so so bad. --keitei
On 2/5/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Someone was bold enough to claim "all websites will be wiki" back in '02 IIRC. I predict that all wiki will be icky, and hence all net will be nutty.
-SV
On 06/02/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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.
It's already common usage. Hopefully wikis will become more common in general.
(Common phonecall I get: people who wonder how they could do their own "Wikipedia" in their company. I have to explain that "wiki" is generic, the concept is not patented, there's lots of different software, MediaWiki is really easy and lots of hosting companies offer it in a cheap hosting package, talk to your IT guy, the *hard* bit is getting people to want to use it.)
- d.
On 2/5/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
This might cause confusion in the BDSM scene, though.
And god knows we wouldn't want that!
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On 2/5/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
This might cause confusion in the BDSM scene, though.
And god knows we wouldn't want that!
It might make the edit wars more interesting.
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