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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. | '''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. | ||
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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Most wikis - I guess - may be on the web. But the concept of wiki is not restricted to the WWW or even directly linked to it. There are many wiki on intra-nets of companies for a purely internal use like the development of a product and therefore not visible to the public at all. But they are collaborative projects. And their efficiency is not disturbed by incompetent passers-by. Actually this is how wiki was invented, as a tool for technical development of a product. the public access was a later addition. [[User_talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 03:09, 5 August 2015 (PDT) | Most wikis - I guess - may be on the web. But the concept of wiki is not restricted to the WWW or even directly linked to it. There are many wiki on intra-nets of companies for a purely internal use like the development of a product and therefore not visible to the public at all. But they are collaborative projects. And their efficiency is not disturbed by incompetent passers-by. Actually this is how wiki was invented, as a tool for technical development of a product. the public access was a later addition. [[User_talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 03:09, 5 August 2015 (PDT) | ||
:A web site is not necessarily public (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website) but I have added a clarifying sentence, above. Does that address your concerns? [[Special:Contributions/79.64.37.201|79.64.37.201]] 03:23, 5 August 2015 (PDT) | |||