Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Thing 32 Wikis



I think Wiki has to be a resource with which to be reckoned. When looking up any general piece of information on Google, it is often one of the first of the resources listed. Although it can be manipulated, bad manipuations do not tend to linger. The information is indeed encyclopedic in the way in which it scatters a wealth of potential pieces of information relating to any one topic.



It has a series of news events such as: A series of bomb blasts in Jaipur, India kills at least 80 people.
An earthquake (epicenter shown on map) measuring 7.9 Mw strikes Sichuan, China with over thirteen thousand people reported dead.
Sudan cuts diplomatic relations with Chad, blaming it for helping rebels from Darfur to launch an attack on Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
An international relief operation begins after Cyclone Nargis strikes Burma, with at least 100,000 people reported killed or missing. The Burmese military regime conducts a constitutional referendum days after the cyclone's strike.
A tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Missouri, United States kills at least 23 people.



It has the day's featured article such as :



Super Smash Bros. Melee is a crossover fighting/action game released for the Nintendo GameCube shortly after its launch in 2001. It is the sequel to the 1999 Nintendo 64 game Super Smash Bros., and the predecessor to the 2008 Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl. HAL Laboratory developed the game, with Masahiro Sakurai as head of production. The game is centered on characters from Nintendo's video gaming franchises such as Mario, Pokémon and The Legend of Zelda.



It has the things that occured on this date years past such as: May 14th



1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition led by explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (pictured) left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois and began the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.



It has a featured picture such as the one above beside the Wikipedia symbol which is the lights along the fire line shown in 2007 to memorialize the Rotterdam blitz which took place in 1940 during German's invasion of the Netherlands.

These are only a few of its general features not to mention the lengthy articles on most any subject.





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