Wiki
upright=1.5|thumb|Editing display showing MediaWiki markup language|alt=refer to caption thumb|right|A photo of the MediaWiki homepage, a wiki software
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A wiki is a website that allows many people to easily create and edit pages together using simple formatting, with the most famous example being Wikipedia. Wikis matter because they enable communities to collaborate on building shared knowledge bases that can be accessed and improved by anyone with internet access.
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/wiki
- Commons category
- Wiki
- Commons gallery
- Wiki
- start time
- 1995-03-16
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10003301
- Mastodon instance URL
- wikis.world
- P13411
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32 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Editing
- Source editing
- Example of syntax
- <span class="anchor" id="visual"></span><span class="anchor" id="wysiwyg"></span><span class="anchor" id="WYSIWYG"></span>Visual editing
- Version history
- Edit summaries
- Navigation
- Navigation between wikis
- Linking to and naming pages
- History
- Alternative definitions
- Implementations
- Hosting
- Trust and security
- Access control
- Controlling changes
- Trustworthiness and reliability of content
- Security
- Harmful external links
- Communities
- Applications
- City wikis
- Growth factors
- Legal environment
- Conferences
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Editing display showing MediaWiki markup language A photo of the MediaWiki homepage, a wiki software
A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ WIK-ee) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base. The name derives from the first user-editable website called WikiWikiWeb – wiki being a Hawaiian word meaning 'quick' (pronounced [ˈviti]).