If you haven’t seen Wikipedia yet, drop everything and point your browser to http://en.wikipedia.org. Wikipedia is a type of wiki, which is a special type of website. In a wiki, everyone who reads the webpage also has the ability to edit, add, or delete from the page as well. This sounds like it would lead to chaos, but strangely enough it doesn’t. Wikipedia is a great example of this. It is an encyclopedia. Anyone can read the articles, write new articles, edit existing articles, or delete existing articles. So far over a half million articles have been written on the English version of Wikipedia.

I’ve even gotten in on the act. I’ve written a half dozen or so articles on things that interest me and that I have a little knowledge in. I wrote one on the USCGC Sundew, one on the USCGC Mackinaw, one on Split Rock Lighthouse, and one on the Two Harbors Lighthouse. Take a look and if you feel like I’ve made any errors, feel free to edit them or to add additional articles.

–Pete