A wiki is a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. Wikis are easy to update and customize. The most well-known wiki is Wikipedia, which hosts over 10 million articles across 253 languages as of 2008. Wikis can be used by communities, organizations, schools, and businesses to collaboratively author and edit documents, manage projects, and share information in a central location. Common uses of wikis include establishing an internal company website or intranet, organizing meeting notes and documents, and managing calendars and agendas. Popular wiki platforms include WikiSpaces, MediaWiki, and PBWiki.

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2. “ A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content (excluding blocked users), using a simplified mark up language.” WIKI

3. What are wiki’s? Wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is" Wikis are exceptionally flexible. You can customise them and also connect a wiki to other applications, databases, and file systems. That use simple formatting rules, so you do not need to know HTML or FrontPage, etc. That are published online. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions .

4. Why would I use a wiki? A wiki allows you to collaborate with others online easily. Wikis make it easy to keep all your information current and accurate. Users can add pages or documents to a wiki and edit them and can view changes made by different users or roll back to previous versions. Wikis reduce the potential confusion of having multiple contributors to documents or projects.

5. Who uses wikis? Community-based organizations, governments, schools/universities, and businesses are using wikis. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia, a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is a blend of the words “wiki” and “encyclopedia.” As of September 2008, Wikipedia had over 10 million articles in 253 languages.

6. When to wiki Establish a company intranet quickly and cheaply without sacrificing functionality or security. To publish a range of business documents in one universally accessible location and let employees manage those documents with a minimum of effort and risk of redundancy. To manage and organize meeting notes, team agendas, and company calendars.

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