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1. Wiki’s World
Fantastic Two
Vijaya kumar pathipati (Gl)
Anil Bheema

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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...

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Wikipedia History
 Formally began on January 15, 2001 as a complement
to the Nupedia project

8. 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

9. 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

10. Wikipedia in the News
Answers.com

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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