Re: [Wikipedia-l] The New Cliche: "It's the Wikipedia of..."

What is a dermatology atlas?

Dermatology, I understand. Atlas, I understand. But what is a dermatology atlas? A book of maps of the skin?

Mark

On 04/10/05, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:

Thought you all would find this amusing - Jeremey Wagstaff, WSJ tech columnist, had a great piece about the Wikipedia as a new cliche...

http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2005/09/the_new_cliche_.html

The New Cliche: "It's the Wikipedia of..."

You know something has arrived when it's used to describe a phenomenon. Or what people hope will be a phenomenon. Here's a sampling:

* Laptops This from Nicholas Negroponte, describing his $100

laptop for the developing world (via Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth): "It's the Wikipedia equivalent (of hardware)," he said, describing the spirit of the laptop initiative.

* Gasbuddy  Poster at ezboard: "It's the Wikipedia of Gas pumps. I

use it whenever I need gas. I can't believe I forgot about it until now."

* New York Times — This from a Xanga blogger: "It's the Wikipedia

of newspapers: great resource with plenty of interesting but useless content. For goodness' sake, it's a newspaper, not Cosmo Girl."

* The UK Good Food/Good Pub guide, described on Wikipedia chat as

"It's the wikipedia of food guides"

* Urban Dictionary — described by this blogger as "the Wikipedia

of the streets beyach!"

* Sushi World Guide — "it seems the community is still growing. It

is the 'Wikipedia of Sushi'.

* Pure Energy Systems – " We will be the Wikipedia of alternate

energy technology."

* Wondir — hailed on the unofficial google blog as "the Wikipedia

of answer sites"

* Dermatlas — described here as "the Wikipedia of dermatology atlases"

* Math World — described here as "the wikipedia of math"

* GuitarWiki — described by a visitor as possibly becoming "the

Wikipedia of the guitar world"

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