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Article: Opinion - Wikis offer informal focus for collaboration. Despite highly publicised failures of freely available wikis in the US this year, David Tebbutt thinks these communally edited collaborations do have their uses.
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- Information World Review
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- September 12, 2005
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Does your organisation use wiki software? If that question makes sense to you, then you are in a small but growing minority. To clarify, a wiki facilitates collaboration between people who need no more than a web browser to participate. It is simple to use and focuses on content more than appearance.
Some wikis are open and some are closed. Some reach beyond the organisation and some stay inside. Some are hosted externally and some run behind the firewall.
The best known example of an open wiki is Wikipedia, a volunteer-created and edited encyclopaedia. This lays it open to error and vandalism, but the next visitor or a volunteer editor can re-edit the ...