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Wikis are collaborative web platforms that allow users to create and edit content without a defined owner, using wiki software that supports lightweight markup languages. They serve various purposes, including knowledge management and community interaction, with Wikipedia being the most notable example. Wikis promote user involvement in content creation and organization, fostering a dynamic and evolving online environment.

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Wiki

Wikis are collaborative web platforms that allow users to create and edit content without a defined owner, using wiki software that supports lightweight markup languages. They serve various purposes, including knowledge management and community interaction, with Wikipedia being the most notable example. Wikis promote user involvement in content creation and organization, fostering a dynamic and evolving online environment.

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Widience directly through a web browser.

A typical wiki contains


multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to
use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge
base.

A photo of the MediaWiki homepage, a


wiki software

Wikis are powered by wiki software, also known as wiki engines.


Being a form of content management system, these differ from
other web-based systems such as blog software or static site
generators in that the content is created without any defined owner
or leader. Wikis have little inherent structure, allowing one to
emerge according to the needs of the users.[1] Wiki engines usually
allow content to be written using a lightweight 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 free and 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. Further rules may be imposed to organize
content. In addition to hosting user-authored content, wikis allow
those users to interact, hold discussions, and collaborate. [3]

There are hundreds of thousands of wikis in use, both public and


private, including wikis functioning as knowledge
management resources, note-taking tools, community websites,
and intranets. 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][6]
[7]

The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-


based website, as well being one of the internet's most popular
websites, having been ranked consistently as such since at least
2007.[8] Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of
hundreds of wikis, with each one pertaining to a specific language.
The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles,
standing at 6,952,977 as of February 2025.[9]
Characteristics

Ward Cunningham

In their 2001 book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web,
Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf described the essence of the
wiki concept:[10][11]

 "A wiki invites all users—not just experts—to edit any page or to
create new pages within the wiki website, 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."
 "A wiki is not a carefully crafted site created by experts and
professional writers and designed for casual visitors. Instead, it
seeks to involve the typical visitor/user in an ongoing process of
creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website
landscape."

Editing
"Wikitext" redirects here. For the Wikipedia help page,
see Help:Wikitext.

Source editing

Some wikis will present users with an edit button or link directly on
the page being viewed. This will open an interface for writing,
formatting, and structuring page content. The interface may be a
source editor, which is text-based and employs a lightweight
markup language (also known as wikitext, wiki markup,
or wikicode), or a visual editor. For example, in a source editor,
starting lines of text with asterisks could create a bulleted list.

The syntax and features of wiki markup languages for denoting style
and structure can vary greatly among implementations. Some allow
the use of HTMLTooltip Hypertext Markup Language and CSSTooltip
Cascading Style Sheets,[12] while others prevent the use of these to
foster uniformity in appearance.

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