Introduction

=What is a wiki? = =  =    "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge" - Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder 2004 For those of you who don't know what a "wiki" is, it's been described as an interactive community Web site, in which people accessing the site can add to and edit the information displayed. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. Think of Wikipedia, the largest of all wiki's. Wikipedia has over 8 million registered users with 160,000 active users (edited within 30 days) hosting over 2 and a half million pages (just in English!!!). Here's the definition from the wiki of all wikis, [|Wikipedia].

Here is an explanation of how a wiki can be beneficial!!! media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY" height="344" width="425"