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A '''{{Infobox_Contents | topic_name = Wiki''' or '''wiki''' (pronounced "wicky", "weekee" or "veekee"; see pronunciation section below) is a website (or other hypertext documents collection) allowing users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. "Wiki" also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website.Websites | subtopics = [[WikiChristian]] | opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} | }}
Wiki software originated in the design pattern community as a way of writing and discussing pattern languages. The Portland Pattern Repository was the first wiki, established by Ward Cunningham in 1995 [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory]. He invented the wiki name and concept, and implemented the first wiki engine. Some people maintain that only the original wiki should be called Wiki (upper case) or the WikiWikiWeb; nevertheless, Ward Cunningham's Wiki is the most popular wiki site.
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A ''Wiki'wiki' (with an upper case 'W') and ''WikiWikiWeb'' are both used is a website allowing users to specifically refer add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the Portland Pattern Repository, content. Wikipedia is the first-ever most well known wikiwebsite. This usage's proponents suggest site, [[WikiChristian]], is a lower-case 'w' for wikis in generalwiki website. ''Wiki wiki'' comes from the Hawaiian term for "quick" or "super-fast."; sometimes, '''wikiwiki''' or '''WikiWiki''' or '''Wikiwiki''' are used instead of ''wiki..''
==History==
Wiki software originated in the design pattern community as a way of writing and discussing pattern languages. The Portland Pattern Repository was the first wiki, established by Ward Cunningham in 1995. He invented the wiki name and concept, and implemented the first wiki engine. Some people maintain that only the original wiki should be called Wiki (upper case) or the WikiWikiWeb; nevertheless, Ward Cunningham's Wiki is the most popular wiki site. Cunningham coined the term ''wiki'' for the "wiki wiki" or "quick" shuttle buses at Honolulu Airport. ''Wiki wiki'' was the first Hawaiian term he learned on his first visit to the islands, when the airport counter agent directed him to take the ''wiki wiki'' bus between terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for "quick" and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web." [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory] ''.
In the final years of the 20th century, wikis increasingly were recognized as a promising way to develop private- and public-knowledge bases, and this potential inspired the founders of the Nupedia encyclopedia project, Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger, to use wiki technology as a basis for an electronic encyclopedia: ''Wikipedia'' was launched in January 2001, it originally was based upon UseMod software, but later switched to its own, open source codebase, now adopted by many other wikis.
Today, the English-language Wikipedia is, by far, the world's largest wiki; the German-language Wikipedia is the second-largest, while the other Wikipedias fill many of the remaining slots. The fourth-largest wiki is Susning.nu, a Swedish-language knowledge base running UseMod software. The all-encompassing nature of Wikipedia is a significant factor in its growth, while many other wikis are highly specialized. Some also have attributed Wikipedia's rapid growth to its decision not to use CamelCase. In any case, its being the largest wiki has led to its being referred to, sometimes, as the Mother wiki on smaller, subject-specific wikis.
===Wiki communities===
All known public wikis are listed at
[http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki WorldWideWiki: SwitchWiki], which currently lists about 1000 public wiki communities (as of 2004-06-12).
[http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BiggestWiki#Biggest_wikis_by_page_count_on_July_3_2004 Meatball: Biggest wikis].
===References===
*Aigrain, Philippe (2003). The Individual and the Collective in Open Information Communities. Invited talk at the 16th Bled Electronic Commerce Conference, Bled, Slovenija, June 11th 2003. Available at: http://www.debatpublic.net/Members/paigrain/texts/icoic.html
*Aronsson, Lars (2002). Operation of a Large Scale, General Purpose Wiki Website: Experience from susning.nu's first nine months in service. Paper presented at the 6th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing, November 6–8, 2002, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Available at: http://aronsson.se/wikipaper.html
*Remy, Melanie. (2002). Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Online Information Review. v.26, n.6, p.434.
==External linksLinks==
<!-- please do not add links to wikis to this list, instead create new, internal pages about them, and link them to those in the above wiki community list—>
*[http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TourBusStop "Tour bus stop" at MeatballWiki]
*[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors WikiWikiWeb] (the first wiki)
*[http://www.wikisearch.org/ Wikisearch: Blog about Wikis with multi-wiki search functions]
