From nicholas@uci.edu Sat Aug 04 21:52:11 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 5 Aug 2001 04:52:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 92443 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2001 04:52:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Aug 2001 04:52:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 04:52:10 -0000 Received: from localhost (nicholas@localhost) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09093; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:52:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: e4e.oac.uci.edu: nicholas owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:52:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: To: Cc: Nick NICHOLAS Subject: Re: [lojban] wiki Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Nick NICHOLAS X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 9207 From: "Craig" >>what does wiki mean? >Short for 'wiki wiki web.' >Wiki wiki is hawai'ian for 'fast' or 'quick.' I have no >clue what the connection is. Wikis are web nodes which are completely freely editable by anyone that comes along to them. In this, they differ from the traditional mode of collaborative authorship (vide CVS), in which access to the text being edited is closely controlled. The Lojban wiki is hosted on Jay's Lojban news site: http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki It already contains more stuff than you might think, and I really think people should be keeping an eye on it. There's lots of ideological stuff underlying the Wiki Wiki Web; I'm presuming the base concept behind the etymology is that it's quick and easy to get something up online if individuals take the responsibility for filling in the gaps they perceive, rather than bitching about it to some central authority. (OK, that's enough from the peanut gallery! :-) -- == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == Nick Nicholas, Breathing {le'o ko na rivbi fi'inai palci je tolvri danlu} nicholas@uci.edu -- Miguel Cervantes tr. Jorge LLambias