Wikis
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According to Wikipedia’s article on Wiki,
- A wiki is a unique type of website, specifically one which allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove as well as edit all content, quickly and easily, without the need for registration. This fact alone makes it particularly well suited for collaborative writing.
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- The term Wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website.
- In essence, a wiki is nothing more than a simplified system of creating HTML web pages, combined with a system which records and catalogues all revisions, so that at any time, an entry can be reverted to a previous state. A wiki system may also include various tools, designed to provide users with an easy way to monitor the constantly changing state of the wiki as well as a place to discuss and resolve the many inevitable issues, namely, the inherent disagreement over wiki content. Wiki content can also be misleading, as users are bound to add incorrect information to the wiki page.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki)
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[edit] Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
English version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) Other languages (http://wikipedia.org)
Wikipedia described in Wikipedia itself:
- Wikipedia is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. It exists as a wiki, written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a web browser and an Internet connection.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia)
In terms of accuracy of science articles, Wikipedia comes close to Britannica according to Nature.com. (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html)
[edit] Other Wikis
Wikipedia is not the only useful wiki around.
List of wikis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis) List of wiki-based websites, organized by topic
[edit] Wiki Engines
List of wiki software (if you have your own server) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software)
List of wiki farms (if you don’t have your own server) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms)
[edit] Writely
(http://www.writely.com) Not exactly a wiki. A web-based collaborative word processor.
