--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *Superb* long article on Wikipedia in the > NYTimes magazine: > > http://tinyurl.com/2ofc4h > > The writer, Jonathan Dee (a novelist as > well as a contributor to the magazine), has > managed to combine a great deal of solid > information about Wikipedia with a wonderful > feel for its ethos and what the people are > like who do the bulk of the work. Lots of > telling anecdotes, a good bit of humor. > > I practically worship journalism like this. > This article is a work of art, but it's so > compusively readable you may not realize it > until you take a step back and realize what > Dee has accomplished. >
Just occurred to me, the word 'wiki' *might* be (an?) adaptation of English 'quick' into Hawaiian (morpho?)phonology...
