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'''What is a Wiki''' — a [[wiki]] is a Web site where users and visitors can quickly and easily add or edit its content, typically by clicking an "Edit" link or button. Wikis are intended to facilitate content creation by encouraging collaboration and cooperation. Unlike content management systems that only allow administrators to edit content, pages on a wiki can usually be edited by anyone, often without creating a user account. Wikis may be publicly accessible via the Internet, limited to a designated group via an organisation's Intranet, or run privately on an individual's computer. | '''What is a Wiki''' — a [[wiki]] is a software application -- usually implemented as a Web site and accessed via a Web browser -- where users and visitors can quickly and easily add or edit its content, typically by clicking an "Edit" link or button. Wikis are intended to facilitate content creation by encouraging collaboration and cooperation. Unlike content management systems that only allow administrators to edit content, pages on a wiki can usually be edited by anyone, often without creating a user account. Wikis may be publicly accessible via the Internet, limited to a designated group via an organisation's Intranet, or run privately on an individual's computer. | ||
In principle, you can write whatever you want on this wiki, but the community of this wiki expect you to limit your contributions to the [[WikiIndex:About|topic of this wiki]], avoid offensive language, and respect copyright. We keep our wiki clean and delete SPAM or other unwanted content in a timely fashion. | In principle, you can write whatever you want on this wiki, but the community of this wiki expect you to limit your contributions to the [[WikiIndex:About|topic of this wiki]], avoid offensive language, and respect copyright. We keep our wiki clean and delete SPAM or other unwanted content in a timely fashion. | ||
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* This simple illustration at [[CommunityWiki]]:[http://www.communitywiki.org/en/WhyWikiWorks WhyWikiWorks] | * This simple illustration at [[CommunityWiki]]:[http://www.communitywiki.org/en/WhyWikiWorks WhyWikiWorks] | ||
** [[WikiIndex:ToDo]] Need to get interlinks working | ** [[WikiIndex:ToDo]] Need to get interlinks working | ||
== Try It! == | |||
Try it out: On any page, click on the edit link. Don't worry, you won't break it! | Try it out: On any page, click on the edit link. Don't worry, you won't break it! | ||
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::A wiki is not basically a website. If You think so, than You do not understand how a wiki works. To call a wiki a website is absolutely superficial. The website is only what You see, not what it is. Why don't You first get informed, before You try to inform others? [[wp:Wiki]]. The underlying problem persists: "The problem is, that You do not know as much as You think You know." This is a matter of Your attitude not of pieces of information. You will not change that within minutes. [[User_talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 04:55, 5 August 2015 (PDT) | ::A wiki is not basically a website. If You think so, than You do not understand how a wiki works. To call a wiki a website is absolutely superficial. The website is only what You see, not what it is. Why don't You first get informed, before You try to inform others? [[wp:Wiki]]. The underlying problem persists: "The problem is, that You do not know as much as You think You know." This is a matter of Your attitude not of pieces of information. You will not change that within minutes. [[User_talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 04:55, 5 August 2015 (PDT) | ||
:Are you suggesting that I should mention that a Wiki is a software application? Although every popular public or private Wiki is accessed through a Web browser and is implemented as a Web site, and a user's view is almost invariably that it '''is''' a (dynamic) Web site, it is certainly conceivable that a Wiki could exist which is not accessed through a browser. Accordingly, I have amended the text above. Please let me know what you think. [[Special:Contributions/79.64.37.201|79.64.37.201]] 05:42, 5 August 2015 (PDT) | |||