“A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. These wiki websites are often also referred to as wikis; for example, Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as ‘the simplest online database that could possibly work.’
Wiki Wiki (/wiːkiː wiːkiː/) is a reduplication of wiki, a Hawaiian word for “fast”. In English, “wiki” is an abbreviation of it. However, since its application to consumer generated media, some have suggested that wiki means What I Know Is; this seems to be just a pure backronym.”
Examples of other wikis are:
–BattlestarWiki, a wiki for the television show Battlestar Galactica,
–Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki,
–WikiFur, a wiki for the anthropomorphic animal, or ‘furry,’ fandom,
–Wookiepedia, a Star Wars wiki.
Wikipedia; Marshall Huffman, OSU ’08
Technically it’s furry.wikia.com, but you can use wikifur.com instead.
By: GreenReaper on March 8, 2008
at 2:32 pm