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Interview (below) With Jimmy Wales in English from One More Thing on Vimeo (12:14) (24 sec. intro only is in Dutch)
History of Wiki Wiki Web - "...In 1995 a series of Wiki pages hosted by WardCunningham were part of the PortlandPatternRepository and contained "an incomplete and casually written history of programming ideas". The overall philosophy of (a) Wiki is the same as that of CollectiveCodeOwnership as taught in ExtremeProgramming: if you find a problem it belongs to you to fix it, not to blame others for it (or otherwise it would become WikiChaos)..."
"....PAIDEIA: The term paideia is probably best known to modern English-speakers through its use in the word encyclopedia, which is a combination of the Greek terms enkyklios, or "complete system/circle", and paideia.[5] In ancient Greek, the word n. paedeia or paideia (παιδεία) [ to educate (see PAEDEUTICS n.)
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STROOPWAFELS (Source: Wikipedia) This Wikipedia source was last modified on 30 August 2010 at 21:18. (viewed 30 August 2010)
"...The Stroopwafel (syrup waffle or treacle) is a waffle made from two thin layers of baked batter with a caramel-like syrup filling in the middle. The stroopwafel originates from Gouda in the Netherlands. It was first made in the 18th or 19th centuries by a baker using left-overs from a bakery using crumbs which were sweetened with syrup. One story ascribes the invention of the stroopwafel to the baker Gerard Kamphuisen, which would date the first stroopwafels somewhere between 1810, the year when he opened his bakery, and 1840, the year of the oldest known recipe for syrup waffles.[1] In the 19th century, there were around 100 syrup waffle bakers in Gouda, which was the only city in which they were made until 1870. After 1870 they were also made at parties and in markets outside the city of Gouda. In the 20th century factories started to make stroopwafels. In 1960 there were seventeen factories in Gouda alone, of which four are currently still open....."[1]
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