“Wiki” enters the OED
The word “wiki” will be entering the Oxford English Dictionary, that great bastion of the Mother Tongue.
This is especially cool considering the “reading process” used to populate the OED.
Relevant quote from the OED’s own history piece:
Many of the most consistently productive readers were not renowned scholars, but interested laypeople.
*pause*
Now think of the people who contribute to the wikis of the world. How many are (legitimately) “renowned scholars”? How many are just “interested laypeople”?
Mm-hmm.
I can go on about the formal review process too, but I think I’ll leave that discussion for somebody else.
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March 20th, 2007 at 09:55:32
I’ve been wondering… did it help that [[Erin McKean]] was added to our Advisory Board?
March 20th, 2007 at 10:28:39
I don’t know that it helped, but it probably didn’t hurt.
Now that I think about it, though, this could get people to stop using “wiki” and “Wikipedia” interchangeably.