Wiki
A wiki is a collaborative Internet venture of the type you are presently browsing. The users of the site can edit the content, adding material and making changes to what has previously been written by other editors.
There can be tens, hundreds or many thousands of pages of interconnected content. Specific items can be linked using blue links, and articles may contain red links which are waiting for some interested user to convert into meaningful content. Furthermore, there is a history of changes to enable users to revert back to earlier versions or review the development of articles.
The most famous example is, of course, Wikipedia,[1] whose English-language version had over three million articles (3,875,623 to be precise) as of 17th February 2012.[2]
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Characteristics
Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:
- A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons.
- Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.
- A wiki is not a carefully-crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Website landscape.
ELT Wikis
Other ELT wikis include, Wikigogy and Elt World Wiki.
