Sunday 7 December 2008

What is Wiki?

Wiki is basically a kind of website which allows you to edit the website information in order to express your opinion online. Wiki means “very fast” in Hawaiian language (I have read an experience of somebody who has been in Honolulu Airport about how fast the shuttle busses called Wiki Wiki are over there, interesting!:)) Besides its “fast” structure, it is an extremely effective application as everybody can edit the content individually. The most popular wiki is certainly Wikipedia.
The disadvantage of that tool is about that idea: If something wrong is written in webpage, nothing can stop it until somebody else will be corrected that error!! But as many users are visiting the webpage and correct them, it is not a big deal anymore.
Wikipedia is a new collaboration method in companies as well. Company workers can modify the concept according to their ideas and may work electronically in the webpage through wiki. It is just like an online discussion board.

Here is a nice video about Wikis

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