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« Hyla, Willis, Lee in multimedia | Main | Getting clever with us » Friday, January 19, 2007"How To" by teamworkWe're all familiar by now, or anyone reading this is, with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written and edited entirely by its end users. But "wiki" is about more than encyclopedia-building. It describes a kind of online project, in which users are collectively responsible for modifying and improving the product, whatever that product may be. Corporations like Google and even intelligence analysts in the US government are now using wikis internally, as a way to aggregate all the company's knowledge and news on a given topic in one place. I now notice that there is a wiki devoted to "how to" guides. If you want to know how to remove a splinter (I actually used that one the other day) or make a weather barometer with a balloon or make a model of the Starship Enterprise out of a floppy disk (um, okaaay...), then here's your place. Posted by Evan Hughes at 06:33 PM
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