<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.
