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A wiki is a web page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone with access to that to contribute to or modify its content via a web browser using a simplified markup language. Wikis are powered by wiki softwares. Wikis serve as platforms for online collaboration, knowledge management and notetaking [1]. Entries can be created, edited or deleted, as well as categories, templates or pages.
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Meskó, B. (2013). Wikipedia and Medical Wikis. In: Social Media in Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4306-2_9
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