AFSCME 3357-HOF'S BLOG

Wikipedia - the world's most up-to-date encyclopedia

I can remember as a kid having an encyclopedia at home that we bought second hand from a relative. Even though it was five years out of date when we got it, and a decade and a half out of date when I went to college, it was still useful, but the march of time made some listings seem irrelevant or perhaps even deceptively wrong.

The free collaberative encyclopedia on line, the wikipedia, is marvelously up to date. I looked up Aceh, the northern province of Sumatra that has been devastated by the December 26, 2004 tsunami, and lo and behold, less than two weeks after the disaster, the effects of the tsunami are well-incorporated into the listing. Kudos Kudos Kudos.


Aceh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia