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| - | = What is a wiki =
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| - | # Content management systems
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| - | #* Database?
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| - | # Collaborative editing
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| - | # Real-time editing
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| - | == Defining features ==
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| - | # (Virtually) all pages may be edited
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| - | # Editable from any web-browser. No software
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| - | # Reduced syntax (now, often WYSIWYG)
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| - | # Zero effort to create new page
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| - | # Standing history of all changes.
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| - | # Text search
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| - | == Drawbacks ==
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| - | * Threat of vandalism
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| - | ** Most wikis can enforce the use of user names. But, required approval of changes tends to limit use.
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| - | == Possible educational uses of a wiki ==
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| - | === ''Real'' ===
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| - | * Group (or individual) '''research database'''
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| - | * '''Class resources''' in an advanced (post-secondary) classroom
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| - | === ''For the sake of teaching'' ===
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| - | * Foreign language '''dictionary'''
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| - | * Historical timeline
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| - | * Class-created scientific classifications
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| - | == How to get a Wiki ==
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| - | * Your school may already run a wiki service.
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| - | * Your school may provide a more general environment (Blackboard or Moodle) with a wiki module.
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| - | * Commercial '''wiki farms''' provide wiki space either for a fee or advertising space.
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| - | ** [http://www.editthis.info http://www.editthis.info] provides ad-driven space.
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| - | '''Note''': Not all wikis use the same ''language'' or interface as this one. This uses [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] the software behind [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. There are other wiki environments [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software] such as the original [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki WikiWikiWeb].
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