WikiWiki

WikiWiki, often called Wiki for short, is a collaborative software application, enabling web documents to be authored collectively using a simple markup scheme and without the content being reviewed prior to its acceptance.

A WikiWikiWeb is a collaborative hypertext document produced by a community of users by means of a WikiWiki tool.

The original WikiWikiWeb was established by Ward Cunningham, who invented and named the Wiki concept, and produced the first implementation of a WikiWiki server. Many Wikis are immediately identifiable by their use of CamelCase, mixed case words that turn into automatic links.

Ward's Wiki remains one of the most popular Wiki sites:

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors

You can search the page titles of various wikis at once using MetaWiki.

The particular Wiki you are looking at is Wikipedia, an effort to write a complete encyclopaedia from scratch, collaboratively. It is currently adding articles at a pace of a thousand or so per month.

See also: What is a wiki, History of wiki

External Links and References

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