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A wiki is a website that allows users to collaboratively modify content and structure directly from a web browser using a simplified markup language. Wikis are run by wiki software, or a wiki engine, which can be open source or proprietary. The most popular wiki is Wikipedia, which has hundreds of language editions and is one of the top websites globally. Ward Cunningham created the first wiki software called WikiWikiWeb in 1995 and described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

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Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows users to collaboratively modify content and structure directly from a web browser using a simplified markup language. Wikis are run by wiki software, or a wiki engine, which can be open source or proprietary. The most popular wiki is Wikipedia, which has hundreds of language editions and is one of the top websites globally. Ward Cunningham created the first wiki software called WikiWikiWeb in 1995 and described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

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Wiki

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the type of website. For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation).
"WikiNode" redirects here. For the WikiNode of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiNode.
"Wiki format" redirects here. For the type of markup language, see Wiki markup.

Interview with Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki

A wiki ( /wki/ WIK-ee) is a website which allows collaborative modification of its content and
structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup
language (known as "wiki markup"), and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.[1]
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A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. There are dozens of different
wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems.
Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary. 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. A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs
from most other such systems, including blog software, 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 by far the most popular wiki-based website, and is in fact one
of the most widely viewed sites of any kind of the world, having been ranked in the top ten since
2007. Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, one for each
language. There are at least tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private,
including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources,notetaking tools, community
websites and intranets.
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 [wiki][note 1]) is
a Hawaiian word meaning "quick".[4][5][6]

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