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Back to Basics: the wiki.(wiki technologies)
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Discussion about wiki technologies is dominated by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. But there's more to wikis than Wikipedia, and a host of wiki applications exist to help you create information resources with some powerful tools.
The name "wiki" is derived from the Hawaiian for quick (in Honolulu, what they actually shout is "wiki wiki"). Wiki software enables anyone to edit, create or delete content within a wiki-based information resource and do so without requiring access to complicated tools or hierarchical permission systems. Wikipedia's critics say that this anyone-can-edit method, dubbed the wisdom ...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire November 29, 2005 700+ words
...entirely new level of sophistication to meet the needs of design and branding professionals. --Blog & Wiki Track (BW). Blog and wiki technology are rapidly finding their way into enterprises for collaboration, authoring, knowledge management...
- Wiki tools are not all the same.
- Magazine article from: KMWorld Byrne, Tony November 1, 2009 700+ words
...prompts some commentators to claim that the type of wiki software or vendor you select doesn't matter. After all, wiki solutions are not hard to procure. In addition to scores of pure-play wiki vendors, major enterprise software players like...
- Wiki while you work.(TECH LEADERSHIP)
- Magazine article from: School Administrator Guhlin, Miguel March 1, 2008 700+ words
...technologies for communication and collaboration--such as wiki tools--fit into what makes your school system tick...technology that can be used to focus a team's work is the wiki. The wiki is a web page to which a small group of trusted individuals...
- Wiki Wiki: the ability to allow many people to contribute to its content makes...
- Magazine article from: Scientific Computing & Instrumentation Joyce, John February 1, 2005 700+ words
Wiki wiki means quick or super-fast in Hawaiian. It also the name given to a hypertext...site that allows content to be added and/or edited by anybody The first wiki was developed in Perl by Ward Cunningham in 1995 for the Portland Pattern...
- Wiki while you work.(intranet librarian)
- Magazine article from: Online Fichter, Darlene Wisniewski, Jeff May 1, 2008 700+ words
...incomplete information? You have this tool--it's a wiki, and it could be your intranet. Why use a wiki as your intranet? If you have a traditional intranet but it's dead, a wiki is a great platform that, by design, encourages active...
- JotSpot Wiki Powers eBay Community Wiki.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 14, 2006 700+ words
JotSpot Wiki Helps eBay Users Create and Share Community...PRNewswire/ -- JotSpot, the first application wiki company, today announced that it is teaming up with eBay to power the new eBay Wiki site. The new eBay Wiki will allow eBay...
- Wiki: the new way to collaborate: never heard of wiki? If you're choking on...
- Magazine article from: Communication World Fernando, Angelo May 1, 2005 700+ words
A wiki is the ultimate collaborative tool for a group...attention to an oddly roamed phenomenon called wiki? As a communicator, you probably have the...more recently, Bluetooth or even blogs. Wiki is not described with the same passion as...
- The PIUG wiki: communication and collaboration par excellence.(Patent...
- Magazine article from: Searcher Wolff, Thomas E. September 1, 2009 700+ words
...annual conferences, I developed the PIUG wiki, including the PIUG Discussion Forum...conference sponsorship committee used a wiki to share documents, but its members found...difficult and failed to take advantage of other wiki functionality. The growth of PIUG activities...
