lunes, 28 de febrero de 2011

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

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

  1. 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