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| Wikis were first introduced by Ward Cunningham as a platform for exchanging knowledge between software developers (Aguiar, et al., 2009). Wikis are web-based tools that contain collections of web pages that users are allowed to edit or even create and initialize. These tools have meet a tremendous growth due to the fact that here users are not just static viewers, but they participate in this process by offering their individual knowledge about a general or a specific topic. Some other factors that contributed in the expansion of wiki-like tools include the simple wiki-syntax supported by a plethora of easy-to-use editors that simplify the process of creating and editing wiki content, as well as the fact that (in most of the cases) there is no restriction in who is allowed to change the content of a wiki page. People use wikis in collaborative projects, in collaborative writing , in course assignment, in open source software development, in organizational environments for processing and managing information, in knowledge base projects, and generally, in every online activity that requires collaborative and cooperative involvement. | Wikis were first introduced by Ward Cunningham as a platform for exchanging knowledge between software developers (Aguiar, et al., 2009). Wikis are web-based tools that contain collections of web pages that users are allowed to edit or even create and initialize. These tools have meet a tremendous growth due to the fact that here users are not just static viewers, but they participate in this process by offering their individual knowledge about a general or a specific topic. Some other factors that contributed in the expansion of wiki-like tools include the simple wiki-syntax supported by a plethora of easy-to-use editors that simplify the process of creating and editing wiki content, as well as the fact that (in most of the cases) there is no restriction in who is allowed to change the content of a wiki page. People use wikis in collaborative projects, in collaborative writing , in course assignment, in open source software development, in organizational environments for processing and managing information, in knowledge base projects, and generally, in every online activity that requires collaborative and cooperative involvement. | ||
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| ===== 2.What Wikis Are ===== | ===== 2.What Wikis Are ===== | ||
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| - | |Easy Editing|Most wikis use a version of a wiki-syntax that helps users to format the wiki-content. Users are not required to know HTML or a scripting language. Instead, to change the wiki-content, users can use a set of basic mark up or syntax rules. In some cases, users are provided an editing| | + | |Easy Editing|Most wikis use a version of a wiki-syntax that helps users to format the wiki-content. Users are not required to know HTML or a scripting language. Instead, to change the wiki-content, users can use a set of basic mark up or syntax rules. In some cases, users are provided an editing toolbars that simplifies the editing process.| |
| + | |History|Wikis offer the possibility to roll back changes that were made to wiki pages by storing all previous versions of the content. As such, this functionality makes it possible to revert to a previous status or examine the stages of the wiki content (Clerck, et al., 2010).| | ||
| + | |Search Functionality|Content in wikis is typically accessed through information retrieval based on keywords search or by navigating through a list of page names (Witte & Gitzinger, 2007).| | ||
| + | |Page Connection|Due to the article-centric wiki nature, node based hyperlinks is the typical access pattern of choice for these systems (Reinhold, 2006). Users can identify a link to a different case by including the selecting text inside square brackets , using the camel case syntax, or by using the toolbar of the WYSWYG environment (if applicable).| | ||
| =====3.Types of Wikis===== | =====3.Types of Wikis===== | ||
| Nowadays, there is a plethora of available wiki tools in almost every major scripting and programming language including Java, PhP, Perl, C#, etc. Apart from the programming language that a wiki application has been built, wikis can be mainly classified according to their type including: personal wikis, semantic wikis, and structured wikis. | Nowadays, there is a plethora of available wiki tools in almost every major scripting and programming language including Java, PhP, Perl, C#, etc. Apart from the programming language that a wiki application has been built, wikis can be mainly classified according to their type including: personal wikis, semantic wikis, and structured wikis. | ||
