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Living Language Phrase of the Week: Wikification

01.14.2007

wikification

–noun
1. The process of opening online content to allow for collaboration from users; to turn an online site into a wiki.

–Related forms
wikify, verb

Earliest Citation:

"So why shouldn't the opinion industry find new competition in an open-source citizens' effort? I first started thinking about this as I wondered how to get my pet polling questions asked and answered. I wondered whether there could be a way to get established pollsters to charitably add questions to their surveys. But, of course, that's utterly unworkable: politics, money, work, logistics, and self-interest all get in the way. But then it occurred to me that it would be possible to set up a system for the people to take over polling:

It's the wikification, blogification, Craigsification, bittorrentification, linuxification of opinion."


—Jeff Jarvis, The Citizens' Survey: Open-source polling, BuzzMachine, April 1, 2005

 

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