Wiki

A wiki is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly. a typical wiki contains group pages for the subjects or scope of the project in addition to could be either open to the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base.

Wikis are enabled by wiki software, otherwise so-called as wiki engines. A wiki engine, being a cause of a content administration system, differs from other web-based systems such(a) as blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis develope little inherent structure, allowing outline to emerge according to the needs of the users. Wiki engines usually permit content to be sum using a simplified markup language and sometimes edited with the assist of a rich-text editor. There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and component of other software, such(a) as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open-source, whereas others are proprietary. Some allow 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 be imposed to organize content.

The online encyclopedia project, is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick."

History

WikiWikiWeb was the number one wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, and installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle" bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web."

Cunningham was, in part, inspired by the Apple HyperCard, which he had used. HyperCard, however, was single-user. Apple had intentional a system allowing users to create virtual "card stacks" supporting links among the various cards. Cunningham developed Vannevar Bush's ideas by allowing users to "comment on and modify one another's text." Cunningham says his goals were to connection together people's experiences to create a new literature to document programming patterns, and to harness people's natural desire to talk and tell stories with a technology that would feel comfortable to those non used to "authoring".

Wikipedia became the near famous wiki site, launched in January 2001 and entering the top ten nearly popular websites in 2007. In the early 2000s decade, wikis were increasingly adopted in enterprise as collaborative software. Common uses transmitted project communication, intranets, and documentation, initially for technical users. Some companies use wikis as their only collaborative software and as a replacement for static intranets, and some schools and universities use wikis to modernizing group learning. There may be greater use of wikis gradual firewalls than on the public Internet. On March 15, 2007, the word wiki was referred in the online Oxford English Dictionary.