Sunday, 17 February 2013

Summary of Wiki Article


The November 3 2003 article ‘’what is a Wiki’’ by Nathan Matias, provides information about Wiki. He has mentioned that wikis have better functions than E-mail. Cunninghan and Bo Leuf designed wikiwikiweb the first wiki in 1995.Wikis is basically a website where anyone can submit and edit the web page. Each page on wiki has an Edit, Save and Link buttons. Besides this, it can save the plenty of old copies of our pages. We can also store all our websites content in an internal hypertext database. The process of creating new page on wikis is a simple. In wikis, we can organize pages according to our needs. We can also create communities on wikis. It is the purest form of hypertext available on the web. It is also simple to use wikis in a classroom..Wikis keep track of our all stuff. Wikis also simplify the site organization.  
The author has also talked about some other software which are used to organize and share the ideas among employees or students. The article also talks about some popular wikis. One of the famous wiki is Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone. Wiki is a database which can easily manage the data. It helps in connecting the students to teacher or businessman to customer or employee to boss. It is the simplest software to preserve the ideas and thoughts and to share them as well.
Wikis are great hypertext tools that let one person or a group of people manage content easily.They are used to create static Websites, manage online communities, connect businesses with their customers, and even write magazines and books. 

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