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A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little inherent structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.[2] There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Som

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A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little inherent structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.[2] There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Som

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A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine.

A wiki engine is a type of content


management system, but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software, in that the
content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little inherent structure,
allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users. [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 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. Other rules may be imposed to
organize content.
The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-based website, and is one of the
most widely viewed sites in the world, having been ranked in the top ten since 2007. [3] Wikipedia is
not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, with each one pertaining to a specific
language. In addition to Wikipedia, there are tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and
private, including wikis functioning as knowledge
management resources, notetaking tools, community websites, and intranets. The English-language
Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles; as of September 2016, it had over five million
articles. 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 [ˈwiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick".[5][6][7]

Contents

 1Characteristics

o 1.1Editing

o 1.2Navigation

o 1.3Linking and creating pages

o 1.4Searching

 2History

 3Alternative definitions

 4Implementations

 5Trust and security

o 5.1Controlling changes

o 5.2Trustworthiness and reliability of content

o 5.3Security
 5.3.1Potential malware vector

 6Communities

o 6.1Applications

o 6.2City wikis

o 6.3WikiNodes

o 6.4Participants

o 6.5Growth factors

 7Conferences

 8Rules

 9Legal environment

 10See also

 11Notes

 12References

 13Further reading

 14External links

Characteristics
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Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki

Ward Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the
Web, described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:[8]

 A wiki invites all users—not just experts—to edit any page or to create new pages within the
wiki Web site, using only a standard "plain-vanilla" Web browser without any extra add-ons.

 Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link
creation intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.

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