Dear Clay, Nina, Charles and friends,

thanks, Nina. I shall use praise for 'va.n.na'.

As for wiki, Clay is correct to point out the nature of this web
application -- collaborative, the origin of the word also indicates
it starts from the big brother (i.e. United States). While a wiki
site may look like any normal website, its operational aspects is
different.

Wikipedia, the most famous wiki site, is a collaborative
encyclopedia. If you look at the entry for tipitaka,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipitaka, you will find the link to
tipitaka.net, which I put up a long time ago. :-) Unfortunately, that
was my only contribution to wikipedia so far.

A wiki site need not always be an encyclopedia. However, it is almost
certainly a knowledgebase. The first-ever wiki, the Portland Pattern
Repository, is a collaborative site dedicated to pattern languages
(as in computer programming). You may visit their site and also learn
about wiki here: http://www.c2.com/ Enter the wiki, and try
the "EditText" link to get a feel of it.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Clay Collier wrote:

'Wiki' is a term for a special sort of website. The name comes
from 'wikiwiki', a Hawiian term meaning 'quick' or 'super fast'. The
idea of a Wiki is to avoid the 'bottleneck' of a single webmaster by
allowing anyone who is a member of a website (or in some cases,
anyone at all) to edit the documents that are stored there. These
sorts of systems are often referred to as 'collaborative content',
because the idea is that all the members of a community will work
together to improve the site content.

> I saw it in the singular in a sutta. To speak praise means:
> to praise.
>
> I have another question. Could you or someone else give a
> definition of wicky to an atechnical person who does not know
> much about software?