What is a Wiki??

Wikis, they are all over the web nowadays, everyone uses them and almost everyone has copied a last Minuit prep off Wikipedia,

but do we really know what they are?

Well, say if a group of people wanted to collaborate on a single document on the web without having to all be on 1 computer or having to send multiple e-mails. A Wiki is online and can be edited by anyone, with the right security settings. It means that you can all edit and save a document as a web page very easily and efficiently. A useful video to grasp the simple concept of a Wiki is:

Wikis in plain English.

Another useful use for Wikis can be to create a site dedicated to one item, usually something you have a real passion in but cannot find other people to share it with. this is another video on this kind of Wiki

Wetpaint Wikis in plain English

The first wiki was called "WikiWikiWeb" it was designed and produced by Ward Cunningham. He got the idea from the Wiki-Wiki shuttle bus in Honolulu international airport, he took Wiki to be another way of saying quick, and so a WikiWikiWeb to him would be a quick way of looking at the web or quick quick Web.


A wiki is basically a web page or collection of web pages which can be edited by virtually anybody, quite often they are used for collaborative documents.
I have found that wikis are very useful, both to students for collaboration, and for research, or just for planning something without any need for endless e-mails.