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| - | A '''wiki''' is a medium which can be [[edit]]ed by anyone with access to it, and provides an easy method for [[hyperlink|linking]] from one page to another. Wikis are typically [[collaborative]] [[website|websites]] , though there are now also single-user implementations. [[Ward Cunningham]], developer of the first wiki, originally described it as "the simplest online [[database]] that could possibly work". | ||
| - | == Michael Blowhard on wikis == | + | A '''wiki''' is usually a [[web application]] which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in a [[Collaborative software|collaboration]] with others. Text is usually written using a simplified [[markup language]] or a [[Online rich-text editor|rich-text editor]]. |
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| - | :"Although you can use a [[wiki]] tool to build a fairly-conventional [[website]], wikis generally seem to function best when they're used to create databases of [[interconnectedness|interlinked]] entries. [[Point of view|Personality]] may play a role here. It seems to me that [[blog]]s lend themselves to people who thrive on taking note of [[Ephemera|the passing scene]] -- snapshooters -- while wikis are better-suited to people who want what they say to [[Relevance|retain its meaning and significance]] for somewhat longer than a firefly-flash. I often think of Friedrich von [[Blowhard]] as a born wiki-head, for example; [[John Emerson]] is another brainiac who owes it to himself to have a wrestle with wiki-making. Two guys with interesting, encyclopedic minds who have actually gone ahead and created sites that are essentially personal wikis -- [[Wikipedia]]s of their own heads -- are [[Mark Rosenfelder|Zompist]] and [[Jahsonic]]." --[[Michael Blowhard]] via [http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/09/websitemaking_t.html Website-Making Tools for Non-Geeks] | + | * [[Comparison of wiki software]] |
| - | == See also == | + | * [[Content management system]] |
| + | * [[Dispersed knowledge]] | ||
| *[[Five wikis]] | *[[Five wikis]] | ||
| - | *[http://research-service.com/custom-research-paper.html custom research paper] | + | * [[History of wikis]] |
| + | * [[List of wikis]] | ||
| + | * [[Mass collaboration]] | ||
| + | * [[Universal Edit Button]] | ||
| + | * [[Wikis and education]] | ||
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A wiki is usually a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in a collaboration with others. Text is usually written using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.
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See also
- Comparison of wiki software
- Content management system
- Dispersed knowledge
- Five wikis
- History of wikis
- List of wikis
- Mass collaboration
- Universal Edit Button
- Wikis and education
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