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Forget Windows, get a Wiki instead?

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If software applications ruled the 90s, web applications are ruling the roost right as we speak. Web 2.0 technology has made the Internet as personal as your little gold diary. None more so than “Wiki”. A collaborative website application, it allows users to create their own web pages (Wikis), upload pics, add links and share it with anyone browsing around. It’s doing what Windows did to the personal computer and it’s going to be even bigger.

Today from office projects to job searches, wikis feature everywhere. The best example around being the hugely popular Wikipedia. A collaborative project, relying mainly on user’s contributions and comments, its success defines the Web 2.0 story. Wikipedia allows you to edit content online and add references, gives you all the links to associated topics and shows you the history of the article (how many changes etc.) Wikipedia is multi-lingual and the most visited site for reference.

To keep out the malfeasants, there is an editing team backstage, which monitors and steps in, in case of disputes or vandalism. Though there are murmurings about accuracy and quality, the wow factor for Wikipedia is accessibility. Accessibility to a world of knowledge, to which we can add our two bits as well! Doesn’t seem wonderful enough? Think for a second. Would any of us dare to walk in to the offices of Encyclopedia Britannica and demand the content be changed? I think not.

Posted by Sally Richardsson       Posted at 12:00AM Mar 09, 2007 by Sally Richardsson   


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