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The document discusses wikis, which are online publications that can be collaboratively edited by users using a web browser. Wikis allow for simplified markup languages and are enabled by wiki software. The most popular wiki is Wikipedia, which contains over 6 million articles as of 2020.

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Wiki From Wikiped

The document discusses wikis, which are online publications that can be collaboratively edited by users using a web browser. Wikis allow for simplified markup languages and are enabled by wiki software. The most popular wiki is Wikipedia, which contains over 6 million articles as of 2020.

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A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ (listen) WIK-ee) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively

edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki
contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and 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 known as wiki engines. A wiki engine,
being a form of a content management system, differs from other web-based systems
such as 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.[1] Wiki engines usually allow content to be
written using a simplified markup language and sometimes edited with the help of a
rich-text editor.[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 twenty 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 hundreds of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and
private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, note-taking
tools, community websites, and intranets. The English-language Wikipedia has the
largest collection of articles: as of February 2020, it has over 6 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 [wiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick."[5]
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