Info+About+Wikis

//The following content was created by Sue Yee and borrowed for use here:// =For those of you who may be new to using a wiki, here is some information to help you understand the benefit of using a wiki to collaborate with others. This is taken from the RESA website for [|23 Things].=

A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove, and edit content. The name comes from the Hawaiian “wiki-wiki” meaning “quick." Characterized by ease of use, a wiki is an effective tool for collaborative authoring. Adding to a wiki is much like word processing and changes are instantly available. Wiki environments are usually text based, but can incorporate graphics, audio, video, and animation. You're probably already familiar with the world's best-known wiki, [|Wikipedia], an online encyclopedia collaboratively authored and edited by millions of users.

So why use wikis? Simply put, they are easy to use, free, require no special skills or software, and are accessible from any computer with Internet access and web browser software. To protect information on a wiki, sites can require users to log-in before being able to edit. The history feature within wikis allows you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom, and earlier versions of a page can always be accessed.

First, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

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Then read [|this article] to learn more about wikis.