Re: Is there a genealogy Wiki anywhere?

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>> The beauty of Wikepedia is that it can be changed in the blink of an
>> eye, I would guess far quicker than if it was left to your experts to
>> dither and dally on deciding whether to accept the changes if they
>> were in charge of their own on-line encyclopaedia.
> 
> The other week I saw the breaking news of Arthur C Clarke's death on TV
(first
> mention) and immediately checked the Wikipedia entry which included a
> paragraph on his death.

  Indeed.  Wikipedia is so good on deaths that sometimes the announcement
of a death is made before the body is found.  (Case of a wrestler who
died, and the Wikipedia entry on his death predated the death by several
hours.  Authorities were quite interested.)

-- 
Robert Grumbine http://www.radix.net/~bobg/
Science faqs and amateur
activities notes and links.
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too
much 
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than
they 
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New
Sciences