User:Jcw69/wikitalk

Introdution
Chances are that you have heard of Wikis by now -- they seem to be popping up everywhere. For example, The most famous wiki is called Wikipedia, a massive online encyclopedia. Wikipedia has become so large (more than a million articles) that you run across it all the time in Google. It is so popular that it is now one of the Top 100 web sites in the world!

Despite their popularity, Wikis seem very strange to many people. Where does all the information come from? Is it reliable? What stops people from vandalizing a wiki until it dies? These questions and many others will be answered as we dive into the world of wikis...

A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration.

Wiki is derived from a Hawaiian word meaning quick. Wiki is a software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.

The world's first wiki, a computer programming site called the Portland Pattern Repository, was established by Ward Cunningham in 1995. WikiWikiWeb


 * Wiki
 * Wiki farm

Wikipedia
The best known Wiki is Wikipedia. In the late 1990s, wikis were increasingly recognized as a promising way to develop private- and public-knowledge bases, and this potential inspired the founders of the Nupedia encyclopedia project, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, to use wiki technology as a basis for an electronic encyclopedia: Wikipedia was launched in January 2001; it originally was based upon UseMod software, but later switched to its own, open source codebase, now adopted by many other wikis. Wikipedia as a free copyleft online encyclopedia relies on contributors to add and edit entries.

The English-language version has grown to include more than 1,187,969+ entries since 2001 and has generated versions in many other languages.

Items of talk

 * 1) Wikipedia's success to date is 100% a function of our open community (NPOV)
 * 2) Newcomers are always to be welcomed
 * 3) The GNU FDL license, the openness and viral nature of it, are fundamental to the longterm success of the site (Copyleft)
 * 4) Competitors
 * 5) Vandals
 * 6) Adminship Requests for adminship


 * Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals
 * WikiProject South Africa/Bush Telegraph
 * WikiProject
 * Africa-related regional notice board

Links

 * 1) How to start a Wiki
 * 2) WikiIndex


 * 1) WikiTravel
 * 2) WikiHow
 * 3) Wikitionary
 * 4) Open Sourve Java Wiki Engines
 * 5) Wiki Comparisons
 * 6) WikiMatrix