Joined wikipedia and wrote a couple of articles and tweaked a couple mirwin user page.

It has a prioritized "most wanted" page autogenerated from the wiki database which is a pretty cool collaboration technique. I noticed thrust was the current most wanted and wrote a fairly concise precise article for it. Then it suckered me into looking over force, which led to statics, dynamics, engineering mechanics, newton's law's etc. So ..... now I know that a good wiki with interesting material is much like peanuts, potato chips, and popcorn ...... singularity is difficult.

The site also provides diff support which provides easy review of modified articles.

Query regarding misgivings inserted here to avoid recentlog .... time travel ! 8) see wiki FAQ/talk page. see also entries 96, 97 13 Feb 02

A related question, is a business plan or organizational charter for wikipedia intended to be published at some point such that its contributors can be confident it will always be available free to the public at large?

Is the wikipedia code going to be released under a free or open license? The reason I ask is that it seems to me that the information in the wiki entries is greatly diminished if one cannot access the related wiki links and track to more detailed or general information on the subject of interest.

What is to prevent the wikipedia from vanishing or becoming unfree in the future once the critical mass has been achieved to attract aspiring academics and professionals and multitudes of prosperous users demand fast reliable access that only large server farms with plenty of expensive bandwidth can provide? [[user:mirwin]]