[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia futurology

stvrtg stvrtg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 09:54:12 UTC 2007


On 2/5/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at 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


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