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 Wiki…
The Perfect Online Collaboration Tool
In the Hawaiian language, Wiki means “quick.” It has
also been interpreted as the backronym for “What I
know is,” describing the knowledge contribution,
storage and exchange function. And in the high-tech
world of Internet communications, a wiki is simply a
type of website that allows users to easily add and
edit content. It’s the perfect online collaboration
tool.
In essence, wiki is a simplification of the process
of creating HTML web pages combined with a system
that records each individual change that occurs over
time, so that at any time, a page can be reverted to
any of its previous states. A wiki system may also
provide various tools that allow the user community
to easily monitor the constantly changing state of
the wiki and discuss the issues that emerge in
trying to achieve a general consensus about wiki
content. Wiki content can also be misleading as
users may add incorrect information to the Wiki
page.
Some wikis will allow completely unrestricted access
so that people are able to contribute to the site
without necessarily having to undergo a process of
'registration' as had usually been required by
various other types of interactive websites such as
Internet forums or chat sites.
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
non-technical users.
The addictive quality of a Wiki is that making pages
is as simple as making a link to them. If they don't
yet exist, the page link will be followed by a
hyperlinked question mark; follow that link and you
can define the new page. With this setup, you can
update and create pages from anywhere there is a web
browser handy.
Need to know the definition of another word? Try the
wikipedia or the wiktionary! They’re all over the
Internet and they’re yours for the browsing.
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