We
all are aware about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the
people who use it. But Wiki is a piece of server software that allows
users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web
browser.
Wikipedia
itself is a wiki because it is a special type of website designed to
make collaboration easy.
Wiki
supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new
pages and cross links between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki
is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the
organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content
itself.
Like
many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and
subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and
edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages
democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by
nontechnical users.
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Knowing
the purpose of your wiki will help decide the software and hosting
options to choose from. Wikis can be personal pages, sprawling
communities, or anything in between. You can use a wiki to track your
life goals, create a product manual for your business, collaborate
with coworkers on a project, create a neighborhood newsletter, create
a discussion place for a hobby, and much more.
Wikis
work best when they have a broad focus that allows as many
knowledgeable writers and editors to contribute as possible. If you
are trying to build a popular wiki with lots of community
involvement, then the focus should be open-ended enough to allow for
lots of expanding.
For
example, it would be better to start a wiki about a game company and
all their games than just one of their games.
In
other words It is a collaborative Web site comprises the perpetual
collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and
logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that
has been placed on the Web site using a browser interface, including
the work of previous authors. In contrast, a blog, typically authored
by an individual, does not allow visitors to change the original
posted material, only add comments to the original content.
The
term wiki refers to either the Web site or the software used to
create the site.
Wiki
wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created
by Ward Cunningham in 1995.
In next part we will see Types of Wiki, How to build? etc.
