Once you’ve been reading blogs for a while, you’ll come across the term ‘wiki’. What is a wiki? Where can you get one? And why would you want one? For the answers to these and other questions beginning with ‘W’, read on…
A wiki is simply a website that can be quickly and easily edited by its readers – anyone can add new pages or change ones that already exist, and you don’t need to know any HTML code to do so. At the bottom of every page, there’s a ‘Edit this page’ link, and clicking on this takes you into a simple form where you can add, change or delete the page’s text.
So what’s the big deal? Simply that anyone can do it – anyone who’s got enough knowledge to use a keyboard, mouse and browser has the skills to create and change web pages. There’s no HTML or XML or CSS or any other TLAs – just a simple form and plain text.
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