Difference between revisions of "Wiki"

Today is Tuesday November 26, 2024 in Canada. This is the day that the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24) David Spencer's Media Spin Canada provides information on: associations in media, a glossary, music, Media new media, photography, publishing, radio, television, video and Resources web resources. David M.R.D. Spencer's founding and work with ChristianMedia.ca between 1999 to 2008. Read the interview with David . To connect with Canadian Christians working and volunteering in arts, media and music, publishing and writing go here . < Home | Associations | Categories | Glossary | Media Workers | New | Popular | Search A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Advertisers and Supporters Find Canadian media What's new?

From the ChristianMedia.ca Glossary

From David Spencer's Media Spin Glossary

Resources: Culture | Dance | Film | Music | New Media | News | Performing Arts | Publishing | Radio | Television | Visual Arts | Writing
Please note that some of the organizations and people listed in David Spencer's Media Spin Glossary may not be Christian and may not have a Christian faith perspective. The Christians that are listed in David Spencer's Media Spin Glossary are brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus from Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and other countries around the world.

A wiki (originally called Quickweb) is an editable web site that does not require users to know HTML. Most have a system to record changes so that at any time, a page can be reverted to any of its previous states. A wiki enables documents to be written collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching or even creating information.

ChristianMedia.ca uses software called a wiki engine to create and maintain our database of information. For our wiki database to work, we also use PHP and MySQL running on an Apache server. To make changes in the content of our wiki you must be a member of ChristianMedia.ca and join here. Membership is free for all Canadian Christians working or volunteering in media.

A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] <WICK-ee> or [ˈwiː.kiː] <WEE-kee>[1]) is a type of web site that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a web site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (an original wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and the online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.

The first such software to be called a wiki, WikiWikiWeb, was named by Ward Cunningham. Cunningham remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so-called "Wiki Wiki" Chance RT-52 shuttle bus line that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web." "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication of "wiki", a Hawaiian-language word for fast. The word wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki (weekie, weekie). The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for "what I know is", which describes the knowledge contribution, storage and exchange function.

According to Cunningham, the idea of wiki can be traced back to a HyperCard stack he wrote in the late 1980s. In the late 1990s, wikis were increasingly recognized as a promising way to develop private and public knowledge bases[citation needed], and this potential inspired the founders of the Nupedia encyclopedia project, which later became Wikipedia.

In the early 2000s, wikis were increasingly adopted in the enterprise as collaborative software. Common uses included project communication, intranets and documentation, initially for technical users. In December 2002, Socialtext launched the first commercial open source wiki solution. Open source wiki software was widely available, downloaded and installed throughout these years. Today some companies use wikis as their only collaborative software and as a replacement for static intranets. There is arguably greater use of wikis behind firewalls than on the public internet. For more info, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki