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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 1:43 pm
I see a link at the top for it. Does anyone have one? Is it like Myspace?
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 1:48 pm
Think of it as a giant real time encyclopedia that can be edited by most anyone.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 1:53 pm
An encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone? Why?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 1:54 pm
Is this like an ad?
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 2:01 pm
As I understand it, the idea is a world wide encyclopedia that can be accessed by anyone for free. It is a growing document, with the ability for most anyone to create an entry or add to an entry. The person with Bomis (James Wales) helped to create Wikia. (he is still hosting us for free by the way)
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 2:02 pm
We'll post more on this soon. Wikia (related to Bomis) is our hosting provider. They've asked us to set up a Wikia on reality TV. It would be something you all could contribute to. Stay tuned!!
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 2:10 pm
From Wikipedia itself: the history of Wikipedia
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 2:15 pm
And from Wikipedia: wikia
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 2:21 pm
The man behind the TVCH scenes--he has hosted TVCH for all but about the first year. We suck up bandwidth like a herd of vacuum cleaners, and he keeps us going at no charge. Jimmy Wales
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 2:29 pm
And be VERY careful when using Wiki as a reference. Because ANYONE can add to or change the entry, there is often very wrong information on it despite their efforts at removing spam and hateful garbage. I have colleagues who have had their scholarly entries decimated by other posters (and then their name is still on it as the author). Their German site is very authentic and doesn't have as much erroneous info as the English site. It would probably be good for something like reality TV that changes quickly, though, so this is a good fit. And since your career doesn't depend on the authenticity of the entry...go for it! <Marm is envisioning some of the reality tv trivia that can be collected on this wiki!>
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 3:38 pm
after reading about jimmy wales i now understand why the Bomis home page used to have a female dressed like a little farm girl with pigtails. never could figure that out before. lol eta: thanks for that info Schoolmarm. i didn't know that about wikipedia.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 3:56 pm
And who knows more about reality television than us? Nobody, that's who. Well, I mean, almost everybody knows more about it than I do, but I am the odd bird here.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Friday, August 18, 2006 - 7:41 am
This mean we all will be Wikians?
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