2. What is a Wiki ?
A Wiki is a website which allows
User to create,add,edit,or
remove.
Simply A Wiki is an easy-to-use
free webpage that multiple
people can edit.
Best known wiki is wikipedia.
3. What does wiki mean?
• Wiki is a Hawaiian word which means
“fast ”or “quick”,or “to hasten”.
How the wiki got its name?
• Wiki-wiki is the name of the bus line in the
Honolulu international Airport.
4. History of wiki
The first wiki was created by
“Ward Cunningham”.
He started creating wikiwikiweb in 1994
He planned it to create and share ideas in
a quick way.
Ward’s wiki is still active today.
5. Why use a wiki ?
Easy to learn- no HTML required
Easy to share knowledge
Easy way to collaborate across borders
Ability to revert back to old versions
Ability to track who’s done what&where
Fostering collaboration among friends
and/or colleagues
Peer editing and writing
6. Characteristic’s of wiki
Simple hypertext format
Openness and accessibility encourages
participation
Changeable ownership
Unending content
Easy linking from one page to another
Not only a contributor edit their own
work,but also edit the work of others
7. Types of wiki’s
There are millions of
wikis available to users
on the web ranging in
a wide variety of
subjects,topics and
information
8. What can you do with a wiki ?
Easily create and edit webpages,including
styled
text,hyperlinks,pictures,audio,video,etc.,
Easy for a group to collabarate on creating
online documents.
9. Advantages
Any one can edit
No HTML required
Changes are immediate
Pages and links are instant & automatic
No one knows everything, but every one
knows something
Use web standards
People can store their folders,pictures,their
discussion
10. Disadvantages
Any one can edit
Misinformation may not get fixed
immediately
Unfamiliar style(no HTML)
11. Wikis for libraries
Simply as a library webpage/site
Create,edit&provide free content/articles for research
For sharing ideas
Provide information about reference books,
databases,websites,etc
Help for research by recommending
articles,websites,etc
Answering reference questions(add/change
answers,FAQ)
Online group study
Multimedia information
12. Examples of wikis
The largest and most talked about wiki on the
Internet is Wikipedia
• It free online encyclopedia with over 2 million articles in
english on a variety of topics
• 25 languages
• 2 million entries
• Five times more popular than Google news ,yahoo news or
BBC(hit wise)
Wiki News
wikiBooks
Wikispaces
Pbwiki
Wikidot
Mediawiki,etc,.