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Group test: social computing systems - Team working. Want to dabble in the brave new world of wiki services and social computing? Davey Winder casts his eye over what these powerful collaborative working tools can do, and selects six of the best for a closer look. Time for you to be a bit more social?

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While RSS news syndication and blogging have hit the headlines in the information professional sphere (see IWR group tests in the October and November issues respectively), for the most, wikis have flown under the radar.

But wikis have been around for a while - it may surprise you to know that the first wiki hit the web 10 years ago. And now the wider world is waking up to them. Today, the world's biggest encyclopaedia - with 13,000 people collaborating on 1.8 million articles, only 800,000 of which are in English - is also a wiki.

As well as being one of the 50 busiest sites online, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) is the perfect example of how social ...

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