A wiki is a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content. Wikis are often used to create collaborative Web sites, such as many community Web sites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. There are also specialized wikis about various topics. MormonWiki.com is specialized wiki about Mormonism.
Learn more about wikis on Wikipedia.
This video is a plain-English explanation of wikis, including a simple explanation of how you could use one:
In the beginning, there was only one wiki, or at least one site that called itself a wiki. In those days, wiki was more about the ease of formatting text for the web, such as putting *stars* around a word to make it bold or /slashes/ around a word to make it italic.
Since then the word wiki has changed to represent the idea of community editing more than a particular coding for text formatting. This difference continues to grow as many modern wikis use an in-brower rich-text editor for editing wiki pages, making the wiki-editing process much more real-person friendly.
I’m just mentioning this because there are some people who still think about text-formatting patterns when they hear “wiki” while others think about collaborative editing. When a group visits their IT office to discuss setting up a wiki, they should make it clear what is really implied when they start throwing out the wiki word.
I’m gone to convey my little brother, that he should also pay a quick visit this blog on regular basis to get updated from most recent gossip.