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There's a Word for That: Wiki!

Last week’s word association was fun – thanks to everyone who commented.  We’ll do that again soon.  I’m thinking about trying to write something that includes all your associated words…stay tuned! So this week, as I was noodling around for what to write about in this week’s TWT post, I kept landing back on an oft-used website resource, Wikipedia.  And then I started to wonder, what is a “wiki” anyway?  So, I looked it up (on Wikipedia, of course!). A wiki, essentially, is a website that allows multiple people to create content and pages which are all linked together.  The creator of the first wiki, Ward Cunningham, named his wiki the WikiWikiWeb.  Wiki means “fast” in Hawaiian.  Later, other people turned it into an acronym and said it stood for What I … Read entire article »

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