Wikis

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A **wiki** is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of interconnected pages. Wikis are typically powered byand are often used to create collaborative wiki websites, to power community websites, for personal [|note taking], in corporate [|intranets], and in [|knowledge management] systems. Wikis may exist to serve a specific purpose, and in such cases, users use their editorial rights to remove material that is considered "off topic." Such is the case of the collaborative encyclopedia [|Wikipedia].[|[2]] In contrast, open purpose wikis accept content without firm rules as to how the content should be organized. [|Ward Cunningham], the developer of the first wiki software, [|WikiWikiWeb], originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work."[|[4]] "Wiki" (pronounced [|[ˈwiti]] or [|[ˈviti]] ) is a [|Hawaiian] word for "fast".[|[5]]