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Since you’re following WikiAnswers on Twitter - you are following WikiAnswers on Twitter, right? - here’s the latest way to celebrate the Wiki way with the very best Q&A community around: #WikiWednesday. 

As you’ve realized, WikiAnswers Wednesday  is the weekly column we do on no.stupid.answers featuring the bizarre side of questions and answers. We want to extend that tradition of making Wednesday a day for wiki Q&A. 

So at some point today (and every other Wednesday), find a question you love, hate, smiled at, laughed at, or cried about… and tweet it with the #WikiWednesday hashtag. That way, we can all share and track the WikiAnswers Wednesday love by tweeting our favorites, retweeting others’, and viewing the growing collection of #WikiWednesday Q&A’s.

Word buffs and green folk alike should be pleased at the selection of hypermiling as top word of 2008. It refers to the activity - actually, for some, like top hypermiler Wayne Gerdes, it’s a competitive sport - of squeezing every last drop out of a gallon of gas. If that requires driving only downhill, so be it.

Other top words that didn’t make it to No. 1 were moofer - as in, one who moofs, a mobile out-of-office worker who gets his job done via Blackberry and the like; staycation - for those who want to enjoy their precious days off close to home or can’t afford to travel; and tweet, as in what you do when you use Twitter (shouldn’t it be called twit? Anyone?).

I detect a theme of mobility: These words all have to do with where you’re going (or not going) and how you get there.

Gotta love the way language grows and reshapes itself to fit our lives. 2008, we salute you.

I know what it’s like. Don’t feel bad about it. You just can’t get enough WikiAnswers. You need more. You need now. You need always. You need… tweets.

That’s right! WikiAnswers has become an entity on Twitter, so if daily blog posts haven’t given you enough vitamin W, you can find out what’s happening on WikiAnswers by the second.

We’ve got quite a WikiAnswers-Twitter community growing these days, so follow WikiAnswers and maybe you’ll find some other contributors to follow and be followed by.

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