Do You Know What an Online Wiki Is?
An online wiki is site that is created by somebody on a topic. The information in the site can be changed any anyone who is interested. Even you can start our own wiki on any topic of your choice. An online wiki can be best described as a personalized website you can build and share.
You decide the topic for your website that you want to share and then create a homepage, you then hidden wiki topic pages and invite interested people to edit those pages, add new topic pages and other such functions. It means that you are creating your own completely customizable online community.
This technology of creating collaborative websites was named after the Hawaiian word "wiki" meaning quick. What is so wonderful about online wikis is that they are absolutely free and they are also hosted. More and more establishments including budding industries and fortune listed conglomerates are starting to make a prominent use of online wikis. With the increasing demand and adoption of wikis by several companies there has been a remarkable increase in the number of options available. All types of online wiki providers are now offering numerous plans, features and price options to be considered.
Any normal person can contribute to a collection of web pages in wiki. A wiki can contribute greatly in a corporate environment if chosen well. If an organization starts an online wiki it will continue only if it is contributed to by all within the organization. Therefore it is very crucial to start off on the right foot with the best wiki available.
There are several services of wiki available. There is wiki hosting service called EditMe wiki that enables users to create and host amazing websites. Flex wiki is a hosting community where a user can build his own wiki or edit others wiki. Media wiki is the wiki software that helps to create wikis. Netomat is another hosting community where one can share pictures, videos, text and even drawings with his friends and family. Socialtext is a workgroup wiki service that allows a user to post mails, files, documents and projects to a site which is shared by the whole workgroup.