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A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone (excluding blocked or banned users) who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

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A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone (excluding blocked or banned users) who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

"Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" is a backronym for "What I Know Is".

History

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Cunningham was in part inspired by Apple's HyperCard. Apple had designed a system allowing users to create virtual "card stacks" supporting links among the various cards. Cunningham developed Vannevar Bush's ideas by allowing users to "comment on and change one another's text". In the early 2000s, wikis were increasingly adopted in enterprise as collaborative software. Common uses included project communication, intranets, and documentation, initially for technical users. Today some companies use wikis as their only collaborative software and as a replacement for static intranets. There may be greater use of wikis behind firewalls than on the public Internet.

On March 15, 2007, wiki entered the online Oxford English Dictionary.

Characteristics

Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:

  • A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons.
  • Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.
  • A wiki is not a carefully-crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.

A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively, in a simple markup language using a Web browser. A single page in a wiki website is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire collection of pages, which are usually well interconnected by hyperlinks, is "the wiki". A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing, and searching through information.

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Professors need IT lessons

KableNETLecturers responding to a UCISA survey on technology enhanced learning, said that web 2.0, mobile computing and podcasting and were the biggest of a list of new demands being placed on them, especially in the need to develop new skills.http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/8083091D41939718802...

When a widget attacks your profile

The Globe and MailMaggie Fox doesn't care what "Suzie from Moncton" had for breakfast. Neither do her clients.http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080914.wg...

New Independent Study Highlights Differences in How and Why Adults and Youth Share Online

Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance SAN FRANCISCO----A new study by Forrester Consulting commissioned by ShareThis, the sharing network that makes it simple and easy to share any online content, reveals new insights into what different segments share online, including how and when; the obstacles to sharing; and why the data about what people share is increasingly important for advertisers, publishers and marketers.http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080915/20080915005926.html?.v=1

Awareness, Inc. Unveils 2008 Report on Trends and Best Practices in Adopting Web 2.0

Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance Awareness, Inc., the leader in enterprise social media, today announced the release of the second in a series of reports on enterprise social media, "Trends and Best Practices in Adopting Web 2.0 in 2008." To download the free report, click here.http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080915/0433364.html

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Novell throws open GroupWise beta

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Scholarship for Web tools

Chicago Sun-TimesWe looked at the world around us and realized that in the commercial Web, we see the rise of 2.0 services, Google maps, project management tools and mashups of these technologies with wikis and blogs," Kainz said. "Why isn't that happening as much in ... http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/1215551,CST-FIN-ecol1...

US online ad growth slows in 2008's first half

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Answers for Wikis

Andrew H

Is there a way to register on all of the Wikimedia wikis once?

Andrew HNo, you have to do it one per one.
smjjames

are there any wikis that deal with medical anomalies, oddities, etc?

smjjameswww.rarediseases.org. Has a HUGE list of various disease, that you will have heard of, wont have heard of, barely affect you, and some that have such a bizarre effect that you never even thought of it...
allonmason

How many people contribute to wikis?

allonmasonquite a few people. like me
Napster964

Is there a free wiki site that can create wikis that look like wikipedia..?

Napster964Yep, use the one that Wikipedia uses, called MediaWiki. It's open source, you can get it from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ and it's a doddle to set up
moolerat

Where can i find wikis?

mooleratdo you mean people who are in to wicca?? or wikkipeadia fans?? there are heaps and heaps of wicca forums on the net.....

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