<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">From our blog: <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://webpub.mit.edu">http://webpub.mit.edu</A>/</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Did you know that term “wiki” is derived from the phrase “WikiWiki”, which is the Hawaiian word for “quick”? I meant to post this awhile ago…for those of you who missed it, NPR’s Fresh Air had Wikipepdia founder Jimmy Wales on last month. It’s a good listen, he explains the basics of how to edit pages, whether they will start taking adds, and more. </FONT><A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">Here’s the interview</FONT></FONT></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> From the NPR site:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Verdana">Jimmy Wales helped create Wikipedia, the interactive online encyclopedia founded in 2001. Users write and edit Wikipedia entries themselves; the site also has a dedicated corps of editors. There are often “edit wars” over entries — some, including the one headlined “2006 Lebanon War,” have been edited and then re-edited thousands of times — and Wikipedia’s accuracy has been questioned by some professors and colleges, who forbid students to cite it as a source. 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