Written by Dick CarlsonIf you’d like to experiment with your own wiki, you can get a free one at pbwiki.com
I just set one up for a small training group and it took me about 15 minutes — adding pages, formatting, sending out invitations and so forth. Now they’ll be using it to discuss a training event that’s happening in a few weeks — adding content, links, photos, ideas — and generally collaborating in cyberspace.
This is great for busy people who have a hard time getting together in the physical world.
What’s a Wiki?
A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː][1]) is a website that
allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.[2] A collaborative technology
for organizing information on Web sites, the first wiki (WikiWikiWeb) was
developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s.
Wikis allow for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki
an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.[5] Wikipedia, an online
encyclopedia, is one of the best known wikis.
Open-source wikis (such as Wikipedia) have been criticized
for their reliability: certain individuals may maliciously introduce false or
misleading content. Proponents rely on their community of users who can
catch malicious content and correct it. Wikis in general make a basic
assumption of the goodness of people.
From: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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