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Wikis are collaborative hypertext publications that allow users to create and edit content without a defined owner, often using lightweight markup languages. They serve various purposes, including knowledge management, community websites, and internal documentation within organizations. The most notable example of a wiki is Wikipedia, which is the largest and most trafficked wiki on the internet.

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Wikis are collaborative hypertext publications that allow users to create and edit content without a defined owner, often using lightweight markup languages. They serve various purposes, including knowledge management, community websites, and internal documentation within organizations. The most notable example of a wiki is Wikipedia, which is the largest and most trafficked wiki on the internet.

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Widience directly through a web browser.

A typical wiki contains


multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to
use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge
base.

A photo of the MediaWiki homepage, a


wiki software

Wikis are powered by wiki software, also known as wiki engines.


Being a form of content management system, these differ from
other web-based systems such as blog software or static site
generators in that the content is created without any defined owner
or leader. Wikis have little inherent structure, allowing one to
emerge according to the needs of the users.[1] Wiki engines usually
allow content to be written using a lightweight markup
language and sometimes edited with the help of a rich-text editor.
[2] 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 free and 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. Further rules may be imposed to organize
content. In addition to hosting user-authored content, wikis allow
those users to interact, hold discussions, and collaborate. [3]

There are hundreds of thousands of wikis in use, both public and


private, including wikis functioning as knowledge
management resources, note-taking tools, community websites,
and intranets. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki
software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described wiki as "the simplest
online database that could possibly work". [4] "Wiki"
(pronounced [wiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick".[5][6]
[7]

The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-e


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the concept. For its use as a nickname,


see Wikipedia. For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Wiiki or WIKY.

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A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ ⓘ WICK-ee) is a form of hypertext publication on
the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its
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specific sites that have been placed on the list by the wiki's
administrators.

Communities
Applications

The home page of the English Wikipedia


The English Wikipedia has the largest user base among wikis on
the World Wide Web[36] and ranks in the top 10 among all Web sites
in terms of traffic.[37] Other large wikis include
the WikiWikiWeb, Memory Alpha, Wikivoyage, and
previously Susning.nu, a Swedish-language knowledge
base. Medical and health-related wiki examples include Ganfyd, an
online collaborative medical reference that is edited by medical
professionals and invited non-medical experts. [38] Many
wiki communities are private, particularly within enterprises. They
are often used as internal documentation for in-house systems and
applications. Some companies use wikis to allow customers to help
produce software documentation.[39] A study of corporate wiki users
found that they could be divided into "synthesizers" and "adders" of
content. Synthesizers' frequency of contribution was affected more
by their impact on other wiki users, while adders' contribution
frequency was affected more by being able to accomplish their
immediate work.[40] From a study of thousands of wiki deployments,
Jonathan Grudin concluded careful stakeholder analysis and
education are crucial to successful wiki deployment. [41]

In 2005, the Gartner Group, noting the increasing popularity of


wikis, estimated that they would become mainstream collaboration
tools in at least 50% of companies by 2009.[42][needs update] Wikis
can be used for project management.[43][44][unreliable source] Wikis
have also been used in the academic community for sharing and
dissemination of information across institutional and international
boundaries.[45] In those settings, they have been found useful for
collaboration on grant writing, strategic planning, departmental
documentation, and committee work.[46] In the mid-2000s, the
increasing trend among industries toward collaboration placed a
heavier impetus upon educators to make students proficient in
collaborative work, inspiring even greater interest in wikis being
used in the classroom.[3]

Wikis have found some use within the legal profession and within
the government. Examples include the Central Intelligence
Agency's Intellipedia, designed to share and collect intelligence
assessments, DKosopedia, which was used by the American Civil
Liberties Union to assist with review of documents about the
internment of detainees in Guantánamo Bay;[47] and the wiki of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, used to
post court rules and allow practitioners to comment and ask
questions. The United States Patent and Trademark
Office operates Peer-to-Patent, a wiki to allow the public to
collaborate on finding prior art relevant to the examination of
pending patent applications. Queens, New York has used a wiki to
allow citizens to collaborate on the design and planning of a local
park. Cornell Law School founded a wiki-based legal dictionary
called Wex, whose growth has been hampered by restrictions on
who can edit.[32]

In academic contexts, wikis have also been used as project


collaboration and research support systems.[48][49]

City wikis
A city wiki or local wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social
network for a specific geographical locale.[50][51][52] The term city
wiki is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a
small town or an entire region. Such a wiki contains information
about specific instances of things, ideas, people and places. Such
highly localized information might be appropriate for a wiki targeted
at local viewers, and could include:

 Details of public establishments such as public houses, bars,


accommodation or social centers
 Owner name, opening hours and statistics for a specific shop
 Statistical information about a specific road in a city
 Flavors of ice cream served at a local ice cream parlor
 A biography of a local mayor and other persons
Growth factors
A study of several hundred wikis in 2008 showed that a relatively
high number of administrators for a given content size is likely to
reduce growth;[53] access controls restricting editing to registered
users tends to reduce growth; a lack of such access controls tends
to fuel new user registration; and that a higher ratio of
administrators to regular users has no significant effect on content
or population growth.[54]

Legal environment
Joint authorship of articles, in which different users participate in
correcting, editing, and compiling the finished product, can also
cause editors to become tenants in common of the copyright,
making it impossible to republish without permission of all co-
owners, some of whose identities may be unknown due to
pseudonymous or anonymous editing.[3] Some copyright issues can
be alleviated through the use of an open content license. Version 2
of the GNU Free Documentation License includes a specific provision
for wiki relicensing, and Creative Commons licenses are also
popular. When no license is specified, an implied license to read and
add content to a wiki may be deemed to exist on the grounds of
business necessity and the inherent nature of a wiki.

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