What is a Wiki?

According to its creators, Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.Wiki allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

For an easy explanation on the functioning of wikis, follow this link to a great video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

And if you want to get started right now, here you have the links for two great sites to do so:

http://www.wikispaces.com/

www.wetpaint.com/

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. Anthony Robbins.