Wiki Summary

The important points I gather from the wiki podcast:

• What is a wiki? A wiki allows users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki website. In other words a wiki is an editable website.   
• The most famous wiki is Wikipedia. 
•  Why use wikis??? 
• Wikis can be meeting agendas.  
• Wikis can be collaborative spaces. 
• Allow documentation.
• Wikis can be a collection of action items. 
• Wikis focus on the existing community. 
• Focus on a compact group.
• Create an internal blogging system.
• Ward Cunningham created the first wiki; an environment where users can link together their experiences. His goal was to implement something like a HyperCard and to have a virtual place where people would talk. 
• What’s HyperCard? Bill Atkinson created this application program for Apple. HyperCards or hypermedia systems created hyperlinks or combines pictures, texts, and graphics in an editable user interface that is kind of like a slide show
• Media Wiki - a web server software, actually used by Wikipedia.
• Blue links are to pages that exist. 
• Red links have yet to be written 
• Four Leading Wiki Services:
• Wikispaces
• PB Works
• Google Sites
• Media Wiki 
• Wikis in Plain English