Summary of the article 'What is Wiki'

In November 3, 2003, the article ‘What is Wiki’ is written by Nathan Matias. In this article, we can see the purpose behind the emersion of Wiki. Wiki is also known as Hypertext and Relational Database. Wiki was first designed by Ward Cunningham and Bo Leuf in 1995 and it is a website where “anyone can contribute”. Wiki is very useful in collaborative learning. Wikis is basically a website where anyone can submit, anyone can edit the web page .Each page on wiki has an Edit, Save and Link buttons. The other important function of wikis is it can save even the plenty of old copies of our pages. Creating links with wikis is also the simple one. It is also simple to use wikis in a classroom. Wikis keeps track of our all stuff.

Wikis are good for teamwork, sharing information, and collaborative discovery. Wikis are most effective in organizational environments because control can be entrusted to clients of the system. Individuals can contribute their expertise, link to outside sources, and summarize remarks. Wikis make a good online workspace for groups working on assignments. Committees use wikis to store notes, link to sites, or create online documentation. Wikis work best for documenting call support centres’ comments and assignments because they maintain revisions and allow you to browse revision history. People within the call centre can publish questions, issues, solutions, and how-to guides.

Notebook is a perfect example of how wiki technology can work well in other settings .Notebook is a serious tool as well. Notebook can be used to keep track of research and ideas. In Notebook, new wiki automatically contain help information and a great tutorial. Notebook works like a web browser. In this article Nathan shows us how Wiki and Notebook is utilized in the same manner. He has shown us that in creating links and pages both wikis and notebook have the same functions. Nathan has also shared his views about wiki as web community software.

According to me, people collaborate with others no matter where in the world you or they are. It is easy enough even for non-tech-savvy people.