What is a [Wiki]

Andrew PennebakerSPAWAR

[History]1

* WikiWikiWeb (“Wiki”) – the first wiki, written in Perl in 1994

* Ward Cunningham’s idea to make exchanging information easier

1Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb

[a wiki page]

* Can be edited by anyone* Uses simplified HTML syntax* Can be reverted to a previous stage* Should have moderators

HTML:

<p>

<h1>

<em>howdy</em>

</h1>

</p>

Wiki:

'''howdy'''

[editing]

[Wikipedia.org]

* “is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia.”

* Began as Nupedia, which had an extensive peer-review process [Fig. 1.1], so now

* Wikipedia has more than 3,800,000 articles

Fig. 1.1

[The Future|Now]

* Mobile users, Don’t Panic!3

* “The House Rules prohibit various things, including racism, ‘hard-core’ swearing, spamming, flooding, languages other than English, and ‘otherwise objectionable’ material.”

* The unofficial Google Wiki4

3http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda

4http://google.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

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* wiki engines– MoinMoin http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de– DokuWiki http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki– MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki– Roll your own

* wiki RFC?* For more information, visit http://en.wikipedia.org