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Wiki’s World
Fantastic Two
Vijaya kumar pathipati (Gl)
Anil Bheema
Wiki’s Birth & Background
Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995 To quick
way of publishing information collaboratively on the Web.
The original WikiWikiWeb site (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki)
created by Cunningham still exists and is actively
maintained by users.
Wiki technologies are increasingly being used to support
development work across distributed teams.
What is Wiki and Why?
A Wiki or wiki is as pronounced "wicky" or "weekee“
Wiki is a Web site or other hypertext document collection
Separate style from contents
All documents must be editable by anybody
Must work on all devices / platforms
keep things simple
use a simplified markup system
Wiki’s Web Now
The web is increasingly complex
Thousands of lines of W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) specs
Raw use by users ==> coherence problems
Sophisticated Web Technologies simplify organisation, complexify
editing
dynamic content
back ends: database + ASP, template engines...
Wiki terminology a WikiWikiWeb site is a set of webs.
a web is a set (flat directory) of topics.
a topic is a web page
WikiNames: [A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z]+[a-z0-9]+.*
are interpreted as links to the page/topic of the same
name
If the page does not yet exist, link is post fixed by
?, going there creates a new page:
Any user can easily create a new page.
Wikipedia – The Largest Wiki
Wikipedia is the largest and best-known Wiki – see <http://www.wikipedia.org/>.
It is a good example of a Wiki in which content is provided by contributors around the world.
It provides an environment and culture which has minimised the dangers of misuse.
Details of Wikipedia are given on the Wikimedia Web
Wikipedia History
Formally began on January 15, 2001 as a complement
to the Nupedia project
How Big is Wikipedia Globally
English – 412,000 articles
German – 172,000 articles
Japanese – 87,000 articles
French – 66,000 articles
Swedish –53,000 articles
Over 1.2 million across 200 languages
19 with >10,000. 52 with >1000
How popular is Wikipedia?
~400 Million page views monthly
According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia is more popular than the websites of:
IBM
Paypal
Open Directory Project
Geocities
Answers.com
Wikipedia in the News
Why Wiki’s?
Anyone can write articles
– Topics not restricted
Technology manageable
– Could be accomplished within one quarter
Instant publishing to a world-wide audience
– 27% of first search results go to Wikipedia
Collaborate with an external community
The wiki software keeps track of every edit made and it's a simple process to revert back to a previous version of an article
Why Not Wiki’s?
Anyone can edit so this may be too open for some applications, for example confidential documentation. However it is possible to regulate user access.
Open to SPAM and Vandalism if not managed properly.
Using wiki may have same disadvantage of using computers for long time.
It may cause health related(posture, sight)problems if not used properly.
Conclusion
Wikipedia is a community
Wikis are instantaneous
people located in different parts of the world can work on the same document
The wiki software keeps track of every edit made and it's a simple process to revert back to a previous version of an article
widens access to the power of web publishing to non-technical users