What is a Wiki? #
- a technology for collaborative creation of internet and intranet pages
- Wiki-Wiki is hawaii and means fast
Principles #
- Fast - fast editing, communicating and easy to learn
- Open - everybody may read and edit everything
- Uncomplicated - everything works in a standard browser
- Easy - no HTML knowledge necessary, simply formatted text
- Simple - Content over Form (content counts, not the super-pretty appearance)
- Secure - every change is archived, nothing gets lost
- Interlinked - Links between pages are easy to make
- Flexible
- Personal Information Management, Knowledgebases, Brainstorming
- Collaboration, Coordination and Communication platform
- Creating documentation and slide shows
- etc...