Wiki

AI overview

A wiki is a website that allows many people to easily create and edit pages together using simple formatting, with the most famous example being Wikipedia. Wikis matter because they enable communities to collaborate on building shared knowledge bases that can be accessed and improved by anyone with internet access.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 1,793 inbound references to Wiki, and connects out to online chat, MediaWiki and English Wikipedia.

It is catalogued under topics including Hawaiian words and phrases, Self-organization and Social information processing.

Vinony links it to 150 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikipedia views (30d)

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: content management system
Named after: WikiWikiWeb
Based on: World Wide Web
Image: Wiki dcci 2x.png
Said to be same as: wiki software

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topic's main category: Category:Wikis
discoverer or inventor: Ward Cunningham
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/wiki
Commons category: Wiki
Commons gallery: Wiki
topic has template: Template:Wikis
start time: 1995-03-16
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10003301
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Mastodon instance URL: wikis.world
P13411: Reutlingen
has characteristic: peer production system

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Encyclopedic overview

32 sections

Contents

Characteristics
Editing
Source editing
Example of syntax
Visual editing
Version history
Edit summaries
Navigation
Navigation between wikis
Linking to and naming pages
History
Alternative definitions
Implementations
Hosting
Trust and security
Access control
Controlling changes
Trustworthiness and reliability of content
Security
Harmful external links
Communities
Applications
City wikis
Growth factors
Legal environment
Conferences
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

Editing display showing MediaWiki markup language A photo of the MediaWiki homepage, a wiki software

A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ WIK-ee) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base. The name derives from the first user-editable website called WikiWikiWeb – wiki being a Hawaiian word meaning 'quick' (pronounced [ˈviti]).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wiki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.