Wiki Summary

The important points I gathered from the wiki podcast...

• A wiki in simple terms is an editable website.
• Wikis are different from other websites because they allow visitors to change information on them and, by doing this, create and collaborate with one another, even allowing visitors to link to places that do not yet exist.
• The idea for wikis came to Ward Cunningham (the creator of wikis) from using Hypercard stacks (MAC software that allowed users to build stacks and programs on their personal computers through hyperlinked information). He wanted to find a web equivalent.
• Wikipedia, while being the largest wiki, is not the only wiki. Anyone can create a wiki through sites such as Wikispaces, PBworks, or Google Sites.
• The three important buttons to creating a wiki are edit, save, and link. Edit makes the page into an editable document, while Save turns the document back into a site that others can edit, and Link allows you to create a new page that is linked to the previous one and start the editing process again.