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Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki

A wiki (Listeni/ˈwɪki/ WIK-ee) 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.[1][2] While a wiki is a type of content management system, it differs from a blog or most other such systems in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.[2]

The encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki on the public web in terms of page views[citation needed], but there are many sites running many different kinds of wiki software. Wikis can serve many different purposes both public and private, including knowledge management, notetaking, community websites and intranets. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed to organize content.

Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".[3] "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiti] or [ˈviti]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "fast" or "quick".[4][5]

Contents

1 Characteristics 1.1 Editing wiki pages 1.2 Navigation 1.3 Linking and creating pages 1.4 Searching 2 History 3

References: Jump up ^ Cunningham, Ward (June 27, 2002), What is a Wiki, WikiWikiWeb, retrieved April 10, 2008 Jump up ^ Hawaiian Words; Hawaiian to English [Retrieved September 19, 2008]. ^ Jump up to: a b Ebersbach 2008, p. 10 Jump up ^ Cunningham, Ward (November 1, 2003), Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki, WikiWikiWeb, retrieved March 9, 2007 Jump up ^ Cunningham, Ward (February 25, 2008), Wiki History, WikiWikiWeb, retrieved March 9, 2007 ^ Jump up to: a b http://www.artima.com/intv/wiki.html Jump up ^ Cunningham, Ward (July 26, 2007), Wiki Wiki Hyper Card, WikiWikiWeb, retrieved March 9, 2007 Jump up ^ Diamond, Graeme (March 1, 2007), March 2007 new words, OED, Oxford University Press, retrieved March 16, 2007 Jump up ^ Soft Security, UseModWiki, September 20, 2006, retrieved March 9, 2007 Jump up ^ "Security — Assothink Wiki" (in French) Jump up ^ WikiStats by S23, S23Wiki, April 3, 2008, retrieved April 7, 2007 Jump up ^ Alexa Web Search – Top 500, Alexa Internet, retrieved April 15, 2008 Jump up ^ Conlin, Michelle (November 28, 2005), E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago, Businessweek Jump up ^ HomePage [Retrieved 8 May 2012]. Jump up ^ MM Wanderley, D Birnbaum, J Malloch (2006), New Interfaces For Musical Expression, IRCAM – Centre Pompidou, p. 180, ISBN 2-84426-314-3 Jump up ^ Nancy T Jump up ^ Summit.atlassian.com. Atlassian Summit homepage [Retrieved June 20, 2011]. Jump up ^ Wiki.regiowiki.eu. European RegioWikiSociety homepage; June 10, 2011 [Retrieved June 20, 2011]. Jump up ^ Semantic-mediawiki.org. SMWCon homepage [Retrieved June 20, 2011]. Jump up ^ Tiki.org. TikiFest homepage [Retrieved June 20, 2011]. Jump up ^ Conservapedia.com. Conservapedia.com; May 15, 2010 [Retrieved July 24, 2010]. Jump up ^ Redwood Music Ltd v. B Feldman & Co Ltd (RPC 385), 1979 Jump up ^ Kathleen M Further reading Ebersbach, Anja (2008), Wiki: Web Collaboration, Springer Science+Business Media, ISBN 3-540-35150-7 Leuf, Bo (April 13, 2001), The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, Addison–Wesley, ISBN 0-201-71499-X Mader, Stewart (December 10, 2007), Wikipatterns, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-470-22362-6 Tapscott, Don (April 17, 2008), Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Portfolio Hardcover, ISBN 1-59184-193-3 External links WikiTeam, a volunteer group to preserve wikis Murphy, Paula (April 2006)