HistoryofWikis

What is a Wiki?? [|WikiWiki]is Hawaiian for "quick". [|Wiki Design Principles] Wiki has turned out to be much more than I'd imagined! That is not to say that I didn't imagine a lot. These are the design principles I sought to satisfy with the first release of Wiki. -- [|WardCunningham] founder of first Wiki


 * **Simple** - easier to use than abuse. A wiki that reinvents HTML markup (//[b]bold[/b]//, for example)
 * **Open** - Should a page be found to be incomplete or poorly organized, any reader can edit it as they see fit.
 * **Universal** - The mechanisms of editing and organizing are the same as those of writing, so that any writer is automatically an editor and organizer.
 * **Precise** - Pages will be titled with sufficient precision to avoid most name clashes, typically by forming noun phrases.
 * **Trust** - This is the most important thing in a wiki. Trust the people, trust the process, enable trust-building. Everyone controls and checks the content. Wiki relies on the assumption that most readers have good intentions
 * **Fun** - Everybody can contribute; nobody has to.
 * **Sharing** - of information, knowledge, experience, ideas, views
 * **Collaboration** - We believe that this could make a good collaboration tool, both synchronously and asynchronously.
 * **Platforms** - We like the cross-platform implications.
 * **Social Networks** - Its power for supporting collaboration is great.