A Wiki, also WikiWiki and WikiWeb mentioned, is a side collection, which cannot only be read by the users, available in the World Wide Web, but also changed on-line. Wikis resemble thereby content management systems. The name comes from wikiwiki, the Hawaiian word for "„fast "“. As usual is the case for hypertexts, the individual sides and article of a Wikis are connected by cross references (left). In addition it gives usually a processing function, which opens an input window, in which the text of the article to be worked on can.

With the alteration capability of the individual sides by everyone an original and before not carried out idea of the World Wide Web is realized. In addition, the Wiki software can be used in Intranets or on private computers.

An objection often brought opposite Wikis exists in the possibility of the Vandalismus. At typical Wiki software it is however possible for users to repair of the sides concerned by Vandalen accomplished destruction by the call of undestroyed versions. An investigation IBM of the Watson Research center resulted in that this happens on the average with wikipedia.org in less than 3 minutes.

History

Wikis developed for theoreticians as Wissensmanagement Tool in the surrounding field "„of the draft samples "“- after an idea from the year 1995. The first WikiWikiWeb was developed by the US-American software developer Ward Cunningham. In this period a number of similar concepts, which however no comparable success had granted, developed for example XEROX Sparrow (1996).

Those probably first adaptation of the Wiki principle beyond of Ward Cunninghams WikiWikiWeb was the CoWeb of the university teacher Mark of Guzdial 1997.

The concept of Wikis resembles what itself Tim Berners Lee, which presented inventors of the World Wide Web, approx. originally 1990 under selbigem. The information should be machinable on-line available and immediately. In historical perspective it describes this in its book "„Weaving The Web "“(dt. "„the Web report "“, chapter 1).

Wiki syntax

In order to arrange the text more readable and arranged, there are usually combinations of signs, which assign a format collecting main to the enclosed text. These "„tags in such a way specified "“are entered in the input window in appropriate place. In the Wikipedia for example the input results in "„'' an italic '' word "“the expenditure "„an italic word "“.

The whole of these tags is designated as Wiki syntax and differs depending upon used Wiki software. It is however too own to all dialects that they are very much more simply developed than the HTML otherwise spread in the World Wide Web. This restriction on the substantial makes possible for a large group of humans, in particular also computer laymen to participate with little learning and writing effort on this system.

Important Wikis

To time the world largest Wiki is the 2001 created Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia. It contains about 3 million article, distributed on over 100 languages. Likewise is the English-language MeatballWiki admits, in which among other things the characteristics and regularities are discussed by on-line Communities.

In the German-speaking countries well-known Wikis is the German software developer Wiki (DseWiki, approx. 3000 sides April 2005), the Karlsruher Stadtwiki also over 5500 articles in May 2006, the LinuxWiki, the JuraWiki, the travel guide WikiTravel, the Wikipedia Parodie Kamelopedia and the Sciencefiction data bases MEMORY alpha (star Trek) and Perrypedia (Perry Rhodan). Duckipedia, which with all topics around Walt Disney and its creations concerns itself approximately, as well as the prescription Wiki, which offer also over 1000 prescriptions, are in addition worth mentioning.

Cross-linking of Wikis

For the cross-linking of Wikis the concept serves the InterWiki on the left of. From the Wikipedia Tourbus stop one can undertake a virtual bus round travel by many different Wikis. With one another "„neighbouring "“Wikis links the wiki node.

Extensive lists of the Wikis available in the Web are further down in the section Related links.

Wiki software

Beside the Ur-Wiki written by Ward Cunningham in Perl exist meanwhile numerous Wiki Engines in different programming languages, to the most well-known count MoinMoin, UseModWiki and of the Wikipedia used software MediaWiki. One calls a server or a group of servers, which Wiki Hosting offers, also Wiki farm.

See also: CalitrixWiki, JSPWiki, pmWiki, SnipSnap and further in the list of Wiki software

Wiki as mark

Apart from the name for Wikis is or was registered "„Wiki "“also as label name for different products (see to Wiki (mark)).

Literature

• Bo Leuf & Ward Cunningham: The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, Addison-Wesley 2001, ISBN 0-201-71499-X
• Christian owner, Helmut Leitner, Peter Nauser: On-line Communities, Weblogs and the social back conquest of the net, Nausser & Nausser 2003, ISBN 3901402373
• Erik The secret medium revolution - like Weblogs, Wikis and free software the world change, Heise 2004, ISBN 3-936931-16-X
• Anja Ebersbach, Markus glazier and Richard Heigl: WikiTools. Co-operation in the Web, Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-22939-6
• Christoph is enough (Hrsg.): Wiki - tarpaulins, setting-up, administration, computer and literature publishing house 2005, ISBN 3-936546-28-2
• Delacroix: Les wikis: espaces de l'intelligence collective, M2 edition 2005, ISBN 2952051445
• Dave Johnson: Blogs, wikis and feed in action, Manninng 2005, ISBN 1932394494

Related links

Wiki Engines and Wiki farms:

• Wiki Engines (sorted according to programming language)
• Comfortable comparison of over 30 Wiki Engines in a table
• Comparison of 11 Wiki Engines on wikiwikiweb.de in a table
• (English)

Wiki listings:

• Wiki index - free listing of public Wikis
• Wiki listing

Background informations:

• Erik Dance of the brains. Article in Telepolis, 2003.
• Richard Cyganiak: Wiki and WCMS - comparison of content management system and Wiki (pdf)

zh-min-nan: Wiki

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