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�Free, online writing websites/spaces.

�That use simple formatting rules, so you

do not need to know HTML orF

rontPage,etc.

�They are published online.

�Developed by Cunningham in the mid-

1990s to provide collaborativediscussions.



�DMS

�Multiple contributors

�

Not only may an individual contributoredit their own work, but also edit the

work of others.

�Wiki pages are never being finished



�Collaborative pages

� Internal staff Web site

�

Committees�Easy

�Free

�Light-Weighted



MediaWiki - host your own



Twiki ² host your own



Commercial Enterprise Wiki Engine

�

PBWiki ² get hosted�Confluence² get hosted



http://www.wikipedia.org/



�Wikipedia is a free, web-based, and

collaborative encyclopedia

�

WikimediaF

oundation�Powered by MediaWiki

�16 million articles (over 3.4 million in

English)

�Written collaboratively by volunteersaround the world



�Thousands of changes an hour

�Histories and recent changes

�Compare changes�Sandbox

� Inappropriate changes are usually

removed quickly

�User Profile



Don't be afraid to edit³ anyone can edit

almost any page, and wiki encourage you

to be bold.



36 languages

Top 5 most active

discussion topics

Since its creation the

article has been

edited over

4,252 times.

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�Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org

�Wikiquote - http://en.wikiquote.org (Over 95,000 pages of

user-submitted quotes in 88 languages)

�Wiktionary - http://en.wiktionary.org (Over six million

articles with word definitions from 170 languages)

�Wikiversity - http://en.wikiversity.org (open educational

Resource Over 26,000 articles in 11 languages)

�Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org (100,000 articlescovering breaking news and in-depth reporting around the world

in 28 languages)



http://www.mediawiki.org



�Server-based software

�GPL

�

Wikitext format�WYSIWYG

�Written in PHP

�Power up's Wikipedia

�Web feeds - RSS



Requirements

� Download MediaWiki (current stable version is 1.16.0)

� Web server such as Apache or IIS� PHP version 5.1 or later

� Database Server such as MySQL or PostgreSQL

Take easy

XAMPPhttp://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html



http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#



ecurity

�Spam prevention� URL blacklist

� Word blacklist

� IP blocking

� Captchas

� Internet bots



Commons.wikimedia.org

�5.5 million free images, videos, and

sound files



�How do I create a new page?

�How do I add/remove a table of contents?

�

How do I spell check my work?�How do I revert a page to an earlier

version?

�How do I insert Online Videos into the

wiki?



� http://wiki.artesyncp.com/tiki-index.php



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c/TiddlyWiki/tech_write.html

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