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| Web 2.0 refers as the technology that provides participatory information sharing interoperability, and collaboration through the Web. A very important difference with previous technologies is that participants here have an active involvement in the formation and evolution of the web content using appropriate Web 2.0 tools and technologies. Web 2.0 tools include wikis, [[Articles:Salameh|blogs]], instant messaging, bookmarks and folksonomies, as well as podcasts and vodcasts (Saeed & Yang, 2008). | Web 2.0 refers as the technology that provides participatory information sharing interoperability, and collaboration through the Web. A very important difference with previous technologies is that participants here have an active involvement in the formation and evolution of the web content using appropriate Web 2.0 tools and technologies. Web 2.0 tools include wikis, [[Articles:Salameh|blogs]], instant messaging, bookmarks and folksonomies, as well as podcasts and vodcasts (Saeed & Yang, 2008). | ||
| - | 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 ===== | ||
| - | Wiki is a short form for WikiWikiWeb and is derived from the Hawaiian expression “wiki wiki” meaning “fast” or “quick” (Schaffert, 2008). Ward Cunningham used the word wiki to name the collaborative tool he developed for use on the Internet in 1994. Leuf and Cunningham (2001) defined wiki as a freely expandable collection of interlinked Web pages. Another definition from O’Neill (2005) consider wikis as a collaborative medium designed to promote content sharing. Wikis allow collaborative editing of their pages as well as a full content versioning history that allow someone to roll back and find a previous version of the editing page (Ruth & Houghton, 2009). This kind of software provides an easy-to-use collaborative environment with simple and uniform navigational conventions (Grace, 2009). The Web pages created using this kind of software provide bottom up editing . The fact that the user can edit this pages using just a browser make wiki-environments the perfect tool for online synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. Wikis can also implemented to facilitate computer supported collaboration learning (CSCL), which promotes peer interaction and facilitates the sharing and distribution of knowledge and expertise among a group of learners (Augar, et al., 2004). The expertise is not in the hands of a few, but rather emerges from the combined efforts of many. The basic characteristics of wikis include: | + | Wiki is a short form for WikiWikiWeb and is derived from the Hawaiian expression “wiki wiki” meaning “fast” or “quick” (Schaffert, 2008). Ward Cunningham used the word wiki to name the collaborative tool he developed for use on the Internet in 1994. Leuf and Cunningham (2001) defined wiki as a freely expandable collection of interlinked Web pages. Another definition from O’Neill (2005) consider wikis as a collaborative medium designed to promote content sharing. Wikis allow collaborative editing of their pages as well as a full content versioning history that allow someone to roll back and find a previous version of the editing page (Ruth & Houghton, 2009). This kind of software provides an easy-to-use collaborative environment with simple and uniform navigational conventions (Grace, 2009). The Web pages created using this kind of software provide bottom up editing . The fact that the user can edit this pages using just a browser make wiki-environments the perfect tool for online synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. Wikis can also implemented to facilitate computer supported collaboration learning (CSCL), which promotes peer interaction and facilitates the sharing and distribution of knowledge and expertise among a group of learners (Augar, et al., 2004). The expertise is not in the hands of a few, but rather emerges from the combined efforts of many. The following table includes the basic characteristics of the wikis. |
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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 toolbars that simplifies the editing process. | + | ^ Basic Features ^Description ^ |
| - | * 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). | + | |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.| |
| - | * 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). | + | |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).| |
| - | * 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). | + | |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. | ||
