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Bo Leuf: The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration On The Web

Ward Cunningham invented the wiki, which allows all users to edit any page or create new pages using only a web browser. Wikis make it easy to create page links to promote topic associations between pages and show whether target pages exist. Unlike carefully crafted expert sites, wikis seek to involve typical users in an ongoing collaborative creation and editing process.

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Bo Leuf: The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration On The Web

Ward Cunningham invented the wiki, which allows all users to edit any page or create new pages using only a web browser. Wikis make it easy to create page links to promote topic associations between pages and show whether target pages exist. Unlike carefully crafted expert sites, wikis seek to involve typical users in an ongoing collaborative creation and editing process.

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Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki

Ward Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the
Web, described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:[8]

 A wiki invites all users—not just experts—to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki
Web site, using only a standard "plain-vanilla" Web browser without any extra add-ons.
 Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link
creation intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.
 A wiki is not a carefully crafted site created by experts and professional writers, and designed for
casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the typical visitor/user in an ongoing process of
creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website landscape.
A wiki enables communities of editors and contributors to write documents collaboratively. All that
people require to contribute is a computer, Internet access, a web browser, and a basic
understanding of a simple markup language (e.g., HTML). A single page in a wiki website is referred
to as a "wiki page", while the entire collection of pages, which are usually well-interconnected
by hyperlinks, is "the wiki". A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing, and searching
through information. A wiki allows non-linear, evolving, complex, and networked text, while also
allowing for editor argument, debate, and interaction regarding the content and formatting.[9] A
defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated.
Generally, there is no review by a moderator or gatekeeper before modifications are accepted and
thus lead to changes on the website. Many wikis are open to alteration by the general public without
requiring registration of user accounts. Many edits can be made in real-time and appear almost
instantly online. However, this feature facilitates abuse of the system. Private wiki servers
require user authentication to edit pages, and sometimes even to read them. Maged N. Kamel
Boulos, Cito Maramba, and Steve Wheeler write that the open wikis produce a process of Social
Darwinism. "'Unfit' sentences and sections are ruthlessly culled, edited, and replaced if they are not
considered 'fit', which hopefully results in the evolution of a higher quality and more relevant page.
While such openness may invite 'vandalism' and the posting of untrue information, this same
openness also makes it possible to rapidly correct or restore a 'quality' wiki page."[10]

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