Law Wikis

Robert Ambrogi has an excellent piece on Law.com this week, "Legal Wikis Are Bound to Wow You," which describes how wikis are being used to promote legal scholarship and "lawyer-to-lawyer collaboration."  Ambrogi also supplies a large list of legal wikis, including the Death Penalty Wiki and the Internet Law Treatise sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  What's a wiki?  It's a website that allows individuals to edit the content of the site collectively.  Wikis can be open to edits from the entire world, or they can be password-protected so that only particular individuals can contribute content.  What are the origins of the word "wiki"?  It's allegedly derived from the Hawaiian word "wiki," which means "quick."