Wiki

Wiki is one of the Web 2.0 technology practices. It is an open-editing software that allows internet users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wikis may exist to serve a specific purpose, and in such cases, users use their editorial rights to remove material that is considered "off topic." Such is the case of the collaborative encyclopedia [|Wikipedia].

The largest encyclopedia in the world, **Wikipedia** is a free, web-based collaborative encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 15 million articles (over 3.3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site.

Characteristics of Wiki


 * allow collaborative writing of a document
 * promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or no
 * not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.
 * easy to create and update pages