Wiki

wiki

   <communications> Any collaborative {website} that users can
   easily modify via the web, typically without restriction.  A
   wiki allows anyone, using a {web browser}, to edit, delete or
   modify content that has been placed on the site, including the
   work of other authors.  This has been found to work
   surprisingly well since contributors tend to be more numerous
   and persistent than vandals and old versions of pages are
   always available.

   Text is entered using a simple {mark-up language} which is
   then rendered as {HTML}.  A feature common to many of the
   different implementations is that any word in mixed case
   LikeThis is automatically turned into a link to a page of that
   name, which may or may not exist (similar to the linking in
   this dictionary).

   In contrast, a {web log}, typically authored by an individual,
   does not allow visitors to change the original posted
   material, only add comments.

   Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was
   created by {Ward Cunningham} in 1995.

   wiki.org (http://wiki.org/).

   (2005-07-21)