"I certainly never write a review about a book I don't think worth reviewing, a flat-out bad book, unless it's an enormously fashionable bad book." --
says, John Gardner in Conversations with John Gardner
Quoted from 'Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations'     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p.150. Available @ Amazon.com

Sunday, April 08, 2007

'Wiki' Wins Place in Oxford English Dictionary


INTERNATIONAAL NIEUWS
'Wiki' finally legit, says OED
Gregg Keizer, InfoWorld
Six years after Wikipedia.org debuted, editors at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have finally deigned to add the word "wiki" to the OED's online version.
The term joined a handful of other technology-related entries added to the online OED as part of the dictionary's quarterly update. Also added: "Infobahn," "malware," "undelete" and "virtualize." Continue reading
See also:

  • 'Wiki' is Now an English Word, Techtree News Staff

    Previous posts from my Blog:
  • Wikipedia and Academia Hit News Headlines Again
  • Is this yet another Wiki in Library and Information Science

    NB. This is not a review from my desktop.
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