Wiki’s World

Fantastic Two

Vijaya kumar pathipati (Gl)

Anil Bheema

Wiki’s Birth & Background

Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995 To quick

way of publishing information collaboratively on the Web.

The original WikiWikiWeb site (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki)

created by Cunningham still exists and is actively

maintained by users.

Wiki technologies are increasingly being used to support

development work across distributed teams.

What is Wiki and Why?

A Wiki or wiki is as pronounced "wicky" or "weekee“

Wiki is a Web site or other hypertext document collection

Separate style from contents

All documents must be editable by anybody

Must work on all devices / platforms

keep things simple

use a simplified markup system

Wiki’s Web Now

The web is increasingly complex

Thousands of lines of W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) specs

Raw use by users ==> coherence problems

Sophisticated Web Technologies simplify organisation, complexify

editing

dynamic content

back ends: database + ASP, template engines...

Wiki terminology a WikiWikiWeb site is a set of webs.

a web is a set (flat directory) of topics.

a topic is a web page

WikiNames: [A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z]+[a-z0-9]+.*

are interpreted as links to the page/topic of the same

name

If the page does not yet exist, link is post fixed by

?, going there creates a new page:

Any user can easily create a new page.

Wikipedia – The Largest Wiki

Wikipedia is the largest and best-known Wiki – see <http://www.wikipedia.org/>.

It is a good example of a Wiki in which content is provided by contributors around the world.

It provides an environment and culture which has minimised the dangers of misuse.

Details of Wikipedia are given on the Wikimedia Web

Wikipedia History

Formally began on January 15, 2001 as a complement

to the Nupedia project

How Big is Wikipedia Globally

English – 412,000 articles

German – 172,000 articles

Japanese – 87,000 articles

French – 66,000 articles

Swedish –53,000 articles

Over 1.2 million across 200 languages

19 with >10,000. 52 with >1000

How popular is Wikipedia?

~400 Million page views monthly

According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia is more popular than the websites of:

IBM

Paypal

Open Directory Project

Geocities

Answers.com

Wikipedia in the News

Why Wiki’s?

Anyone can write articles

– Topics not restricted

Technology manageable

– Could be accomplished within one quarter

Instant publishing to a world-wide audience

– 27% of first search results go to Wikipedia

Collaborate with an external community

The wiki software keeps track of every edit made and it's a simple process to revert back to a previous version of an article

Why Not Wiki’s?

Anyone can edit so this may be too open for some applications, for example confidential documentation. However it is possible to regulate user access.

Open to SPAM and Vandalism if not managed properly.

Using wiki may have same disadvantage of using computers for long time.

It may cause health related(posture, sight)problems if not used properly.

Conclusion

Wikipedia is a community

Wikis are instantaneous

people located in different parts of the world can work on the same document

The wiki software keeps track of every edit made and it's a simple process to revert back to a previous version of an article

widens access to the power of web publishing to non-technical users