In a message dated 7/27/2007 2:17:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, better_than_good@yahoo.com writes: Joan and List, Do not rely just on Wikipedia, as there was an article in the newspaper and on tv nightly news about people being able to get into Wikipedia and change the info. Double check with another source too. tracy p.s. Article was interesting. Tracy- Wikipedia (and any other site that used Wiki technology) is interactive and users add the content. However, there is some degree of checking done on the source input and notes are placed on data that is input and is unsourced. This particular data appears to be accurate and well sourced. By the way--the term Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word wiki wiki which means to do something quickly. Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

I thought I heard that term in a lot of hula dances on TV :O) Wiki wiki :o) Thanks Joan :o) Lynn Joan wrote: > By the way--the term Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word wiki wiki which > means > to do something quickly.

Wikipedia defines itself as the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It states, "The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it) and encyclopedia". I always thought of a portmanteau as a suitcase; but Wikipedia defines it as a a morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. In other words, "Wikipedia" is a combination of a wiki web site and an encyclopedia. There are safeguards to allow reversals of editorial mistakes. The Wikipedia History states, "Wiki wiki is a reduplication of wiki, an Hawaiian-language word for fast. I remember the expression "wiki-wiki" from my sojourn in the Hawaiian Islands during WWII. As Joan said, it means quickly; as in "you come wiki-wiki". One of my favorite memories of the colorful language they employed is of the time I heard a policeman tell a kid, "Hey, you fella, one more time I catch you here, I bus' you up". That was a long time ago. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] wikipedia > > In a message dated 7/27/2007 2:17:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, > better_than_good@yahoo.com writes: > > Joan and List, > > Do not rely just on Wikipedia, as there was an article in the > newspaper and on tv nightly news about people being able to get into > Wikipedia and change the info. Double check with another source too. > > tracy > > p.s. Article was interesting. > > > > > Tracy- > > Wikipedia (and any other site that used Wiki technology) is interactive > and > users add the content. However, there is some degree of checking done on > the > source input and notes are placed on data that is input and is unsourced. > This particular data appears to be accurate and well sourced. > > By the way--the term Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word wiki wiki which > means > to do something quickly. > > Joan