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Despite what many think, a wiki is not Wikipedia. However, Wikipedia is an example of a Wiki. According to Wikipedia in 2008, a wiki is “a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified mark- up language or a WYSIWYG text editor.”1 The fact that Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia written by members of the global public, the crowd, is so easy to edit explains why the definition at the time of writing the first draft of this book had changed to “A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich- text edi-tor,”2 and by the final draft it was “A wiki is a web application which allows collaborative modification, extension or deletion of its content and structure.3”
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Gruenbaum, R. (2015). Wikis. In: Making Social Technologies Work. Palgrave Pocket Consultants. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024824_7
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