User:Alicoates/sandbox

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There are multiple software options available for building a custom, self-hosted wiki. Some use some simple markup language like this, others have WYSIWYG editing

Links might be the trickiest but most powerful part. Everyone who has navigated Wikipedia has, at some point, fallen down the wiki hole following link after link within the text they are reading. It's a great way to have people draw associations and reference their wiki articles. Writing a link within a wikispace is easy - if you know the page name. For example, this will take you to the upload file page. If you link to a page name that does not exist, like Interprofessional Teams, it will create a red link that then someone can click on and create that page themselves (or you can come back to it).


 * Pros - People are already familiar with how wikipedia works, if not how to edit wikipedia


 * Cons - There is a learning curve for the editing process because of the simple markup language

Citing of sources is made easy and the formatting (smaller, etc) is embedded into wikipedia. There is even a dropdown in the editor that allows you to put in the fields (Author, year, title, journal, etc) for each source, and it will format it into the references for you.