A bold Los Angeles Times experiment in letting readers rewrite the paper’s editorials lasted all of three days.
The newspaper suspended its “Wikitorial” Web feature after some users flooded the site over the weekend with foul language and pornographic photos.
But here's the really great part of he article, where someone finally explains to me what the fuck "wiki" means and why in about 7 months the New York Times will have a piece about our wiki-culture and how all the kids with their ipods and their wiki and boho are wiki-hip.
“Wikis,” based on the Hawaiian word “wiki wiki” for “quick,” are online communities that encourage users to collectively write and edit articles, and even override and delete other contributors’ work. The end product can be thought of as a community’s shared knowledge.
There are Wiki cookbooks, collections of quotations and an encyclopedia.
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