Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Week 7: Thing #16 Wikis

I have always thought (even until now) that wikis = wikipedia. That is because wikipedia is The most famous wiki, I guess. I now realise that wikipedia is actually an encyclopedia that anyone can edit and what about wikis? The definition of wiki (from wikipedia of course):

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.

So wikipedia is not the only wiki of course, but it is definitely one of the best known ones. It is also very useful as any google search usually list Wikipedia as one of the top searches.

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