Chapter 24. Building a Site Using a Wiki
In This Chapter
• Five Reasons to Use Wikia to Host Your Wiki
A wiki is an editable set of web pages that enable users to collaborate to create a site that organizes information. The word wiki is a Hawaiian word for fast. The idea is that anyone can quickly change a wiki page. Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1994, but the wiki really began to take off when Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) was created in 2001.
The subject matter for a wiki can be anything—and I do mean anything. There are wikis about camping trips, television shows, online games, and ...
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