(2005-05-30) Taylor Time Wiki

Chris Taylor for Time Mag on Wiki. Mostly about Wikipedia, but... Whatever happens to Wikipedia, the wiki genie is out of the bottle. There are WikiBook-s for collaborative nonfiction, wikipes for recipes and wikimedia for citizen journalists. Jimmy Wales has a for-profit website, WikiCities (later Wikia), where anyone can form a community. (The two largest are geeking out on the chronologies of StarWars and Star Trek.) "It's a form of Brain Storming that's bigger than one person standing at a flip chart," says Ward Cunningham. "And there's a timelessness to it. You can do a wiki over one year or 10.