Notes + Links on creativity, art, & design

by Casey A. Gollan

This story sounded sus­pi­ciously wiki.” The obvi­ous col­lo­quial ana­logue would be “the story seemed fishy.” But note the dis­tinc­tion. A “fishy” story, like a “fish story,” is a far­fetched story that is prob­a­bly a lie or exag­ger­a­tion that in some way redounds to the teller’s ben­e­fit. A “wiki” story, on the other hand, is a story, per­haps far­fetched, that is prob­a­bly backed up by no author­ity other than a Wikipedia arti­cle, or per­haps just a ran­dom web site. The only advan­tage it yields to the user is that one appears knowl­edge­able while hav­ing done only the absolute min­i­mum amount of research.