No detail lost about Lost in Lostpedia

Lostpedia, the Lost encycopedia

Have you just been lost waiting for the return of Lost on ABC? In celebration of Lost Season 4 returning to ABC this evening, today's wiki-of-the-day is Lostpedia. It's an online encyclopedia with all the details you may have lost about the series. It has over 3,500 articles. The articles cover topics like the survivors of Flight 815, the Others, the mysterious happenings, filming locations, Lost locations, episode summaries, official Lost podcasts, and timelines. If you've lost some important facts and want to catch up, if can't get enough of Lost and need more, or if you think that you have key details to contribute, don't lose any more time, visit Lostpedia.

Searching for the right words at LyricWiki

LyricWiki is a website where you can search for lyrics. Unlike many of the other lyric sites on the Web, you will not be bombarded by invasive, pop-up ads while visiting LyricWiki. The songs are indexed by artist, by album, by genre, by artist hometown, by label, and by language. The LyricWiki home page lists iTunes Top Songs, a Song of the Day, and an Album of the Week. The site has 659,222 pages and is managed by 13 administrators for the 15,011 users who have uploaded over 11,400 files. Because it's a wiki, site visitors can participate by adding content to the site. In addition to the lyrics of a song, it provides links, as available, to other sites where you can listen to the music and view music videos recorded for the song. So, LyricWiki is a great resource when you just can't remember the lyrics to a song, when you need to be reminded of the melody, or you want to listen to a song that you just can't get out of your head!

The fortunate few who blog

Today's wiki-of-the-day is the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki

Have you wondered about how in-tune the Fortune 500 companies are to the social networking technologies? The Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki is a directory of the Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs. The listing was originally created as a collaboration between Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine and Ross Mayfield of Socialtext. It has developed into a wiki, a website where its visitors can easily collaborate and add content without any technical knowledge. The wiki notes that approximately 9% of the list blog, as of December 2007. This number seems rather small. You can see their list of companies which blog, links to sample blogs, and some reviews on the wiki. Do you know of more? You can contribute to the site!

BTW, the PBwiki blog, The Daily Peanut , mentioned in September 2007 that over one-third of the Fortune 500 companies has used PBwiki. Wow! I would have suspected that more would be blogging than working in the wiki world. If that many have used PBwiki's hosting service, then how many more are experimenting on other wiki hosting services? Maybe we can find some to explore on this blog. I imagine many are private wikis with limited access. We'll keep our eyes open for them! You can post a comment or send an e-mail to me about any of the Fortune 500 wikis.

If you're still wondering what's the difference between a wiki and a blog, check out the post on Wiki'd Ways today.


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Wikicars, a collaborative guide about cars

Wikicars is an collaborative guide to automobiles. It has over 4,125 articles. Users can find specs, histories and other general information about all types of makes and models of automobiles. You can read reviews of many makes and models. Since it's a wiki, you can post information too. The wiki includes useful articles, like car buying tips and information about hybrids. Wikicars also includes some interesting articles from the most famous cars (e.g., the Oscar Mayer wienermobile, the Pope mobile), what the stars drive, to places you can have your car blessed. If you're in the market for a new car, if you're a car collector, or if you're looking for some interesting trivia, visit Wikicars.

An amazing place about those on an amazing adventure

The Amazing Race Wiki fansite

There are a lot of wiki fan sites on the Web. Since The Amazing Race concluded this week, I decided to take a look at its fansite. The official Amazing Race fansite wiki on Wetpaint offers episode summaries, video clips, polls, online chat, and trivia. Have you ever wondered about what's up with prior race contestants? There's a spot on the wiki for those details too. There is a section called My Amazing Race where the community members can post interesting information about their hometowns in case the contestants zip through their town. Members can post details about their own amazing trips on the site too. This fan site has over 5,100 community members and twelve members with moderator and higher authority.

What more I hoped to see. I saw a page with a link to the CBS webpage for information on how to apply for the race. It also had a spot for visitors to post their application videos on the wiki to show other fans. However, there was only one video posted on the page. I checked YouTube and found a lot of videos posted at that site. I also found another site on the Web with some general hints about applying as a contestant. I guess I was just hoping to see a bit more about the applicants and that process.

If you're amazed by this whirlwind adventure around the world and think you'd like to pursue it, check out the following links:
How to get on Amazing Race, from AssociatedContent
The application site by CBS

Here are two videos from YouTube posted by race applicants that you will likely enjoy:

Rob and Kayla from Colorado

As posted on YouTube by amazingracevote4us


Team Ren

As posted on YouTube by kaitlinp1

Once again, another wiki site that is informative, interesting, and entertaining. Check it out.



Image credit: Wikipedia's article on The Amazing Race

How do you do that?

wikiHow is a wiki-based collaboration to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. It was created by Jack Herrick and Josh Hannah. The site started as an extension of the eHow website and has evolved to >29,000 how-to articles. In December 2007, wikiHow had 8.5 million unique readers who visited 11.7 million times that month. Can you guess the topic of the first article to reach 1 million page views? I won't spoil the fun for you. Check out their milestones page for the answer.

If you're for something interesting to do during a lull moment, check out the content on wikiHow. In browsing around, I found an article on How to run up a wall and flip. That's something I frequently see in action movies and often wonder if it can really be done or if they're using the smoke-and-mirrors of the movie industry. Check out the how-to instructions on how to wall flip. I immediately began to wonder how popular this topic might be. I found numerous videos on YouTube describing and demonstrating how to run up a wall and flip. Check out the wikiHow article and the two videos posted below. Each video has taken a bit different approach. Although the wikiHow site has photos in the how-to article, it doesn't have a video demonstrating how it is done, which I think would be valuable and definitely entertaining. What do you think?

Taegashi Wall Flip Tutorial


As posted on YouTube by EmperorErnest

Wall Flip Tutorial


As posted on YouTube by Jumpism

The wikiHow wiki definitely meets my criteria for a neat site: it has informative, amusing, and entertaining content. I hope that you find it interesting and helpful too. Post a comment on this blog about the most interesting article you find in wikiHow. Enjoy!

Reference:

wikiHow site statistics

About wikiHow

Root-a-toot-toot

Before we start the journey across the Web to find wiki'd places, please bear with me one moment as I toot my own horn. I'd like to start with one of my own wikis for a very special reason. This week the Wetpaint wiki hosting service is saluting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his ambition to dream. I've been selected as a featured top contributor on Wetpaint's home page this week. Because the Wetpaint Crew thinks that my new Bucket Lists wiki dares to dream and in an effort to recognize [my] efforts, my just_tonya user name and its avator plus a link to that wiki are posted on the Wetpaint home page. It's not my biggest or my best yet, but it's my new little baby. Yippee! I sure look good on that Wetpaint home page. (hehehe)

Bucket Lists is a wiki site hosted on Wetpaint that is designed for visitors to share their life list, the list of things to do before kicking the bucket. It's a place to get ideas on popular and incredible life goals and to see information about famous life listers. On the site, visitors can provide helpful information to others on how to achieve common life goals. It's a place to log a simple contract with yourself listing the goals you hope to accomplish in your lifetime. On the site, you can log your life list, share your progress, and encourage others too. It's a new little wiki that needs community members. The site meets my criteria for a neat site -- it's informative, amusing, and entertaining! But, I may be biased. ; )

Visit the Wetpaint home page to see me and link to my wiki. Don't delay, it won't be there long. ; ) Better yet, join my Bucket Lists community there and let's follow our dreams together.

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Starting a new adventure

Today I'm starting a new adventure. The adventure in finding the interesting, informative, amusing, and entertaining wikis on the Web! I was inspired to start this blog by the 33 Wikis project conducted on the eastwikkers blog last year. I learned about several wikis then. There are so many neat wikis on the Web. We just need to spread the word about those we love. If you have a wiki that you'd like covered on this blog, send me a note or post a comment. Join me in this adventure and help direct my path to the wiki'd places on the Web.