Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Week 7 - Thing 16 - wikis


The picture above says it all. I truly believe that wikis are one of the most important things we have learned in the this whole program. With a online communities which are very active it becomes real easy to find and correct mistakes if there are any.
Wikis are
  • Easy to use
    • Web-based
    • Simple syntax (don't need to know HTML)
  • Anyone can make changes -- no more waiting for the Webmaster to get around to your requested changes.
  • Many free and open source options
  • Flexible and extensible
Wikipedia which is one of my favorite website is an example of how powerful an online community can be. there is very few topics which you cant find on wikipedia and with millions of users online makes it very powerful.

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