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Evaluating Wikis for Collaboration

The word wiki comes from the HAWAIIAN word for “fast” and is not an acronym for “What I Know is”, as some suggest. Our final method of group collaboration is the wiki. You are probably familiar with the concept of wikis, thanks to the web’s most popular wiki-Wikipedia. If you never used Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org),you are in for an eye opener. Wikipedia is, in essence, a giant online encyclopedia—but with a twist. Wikipedia content is created solely by the site’s users, resulting in the world’s largest online collaboration. Wikipedia articles are written, edited, and elaborated on by people of all types, from students, to subject-matter experts and professional researchers, to interested amateurs. It’s a true group collaboration. Wiki is a collection of web pages where any users can contribute or modify content. The first Wiki was WikiWikiWeb, a website founded in 1995 to facilitate the exchange of ideas between computer programmers. Wikis enable all users not only to write a new articles, but also to comment on and edit existing articles. Today, many organizations use wikis as collaborative applications. A group wiki can be public (open to all users), as Wikipedia is,or private—which is ideal for project groups ,businesses, and other organizations. A private wiki invites all group members to create new pages on the wiki site or to edit any existing page. All writing and editing is done within the web browser, no extra software or tools necessary. In most instances, there is no review of the articles or edits before they are accepted. The result is a collection of articles or documents, written collaboratively.The wiki software organizes the articles behind the scenes and manages the versioning for each article. Do You Think a wiki is a good tool for your particular organization or project? If so, check out the following wiki hosting services; they make it easy to get your wiki up and running and to manage it on an ongoing basis. Wikipedia Applications 	PBwiki 	Versionate 	Wikihost.org 	Wikispaces 	Zoho Wiki