WHAT IS WIKI?

"Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly."
Collaboration of ideas, sharing and searching for knowledge.

CHARACTERISTICS:

• Allows anyone to edit.
• promotes knowledge sharing.
• increases participation.
• All comments are visible to all.
• to create new pages within the wiki Web site.
• wiki involves visitors in a process of creation and collaboration  that constantly changes the Web site
•  Easy to edit.
• Easy to find content. 

http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki 

FAMOUS WIKI SITES

WikiWikiWeb:  The original wiki site created at the Portland Pattern Repository.  It has good ideas on wikis and creating sites.

 Wikipedia: A free, on-line encyclopedia with over 1 million articles in 10 languages.  Part of the Wikimedia Foundation.

 Wikitravel: is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 5383 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.

Wikinews:  A group of volunteers whose mission is to build a website with present up-to-date, relevant, newsworthy and entertaining content without bias.  Part of the Wikimedia Foundation


SwitchWiki:  aims to catalog all wikis on the web.  Contains links to many wikis.

http://mantzeroo.tripod.com/Famous%20Wikis. Htm

WIKI HISTORY

"The first Wiki was created in 1995 by Ward Cunningham, a Smalltalk developer, who conceived it as a quick way to create and share ideas when working. Ward's Wiki is still working today. In fact, on its tenth anniversary, it had over 30,000 pages". 
http://wiki.wetpaint.com/page/Wiki+History

HOW TO MAKE A WIKI

"There are three ways I know of that you can make a Wiki with, one way is to download a Wiki script and then upload it onto your hosting space. The other way is to pay a Wiki hosting service to run and host your Wiki. The last way is to sign up and create your own free Wiki at a site." 3 Ways To Make A Wiki:

1. Use a free Wiki service

2. Download Wiki software and upload and install it to your hosting space

3. Pay for a Wiki hosting service that will give you what you need to run your Wiki and host it for you

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-wiki