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Wikis are websites that allow collaborative editing of content directly from a web browser. A wiki is made up of multiple pages on various subjects that are created and edited by users without a defined owner. Wiki software, also known as wiki engines, enables users to write and edit content using simplified markup languages and rich-text editors. The most well-known wiki is Wikipedia, which contains over 6 million articles collaboratively written by volunteers around the world, making it one of the top websites globally.

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This article is about the type of website. For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation).

Interview with Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki.

A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ ( listen) WIK-ee) is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and


managed by its own audience directly using a web browser. A typical wiki contains
multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project and may be either open to the
public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge
base.
Wikis are enabled by wiki software, otherwise known as wiki engines. A wiki engine,
being a form of a content management system, differs from other web-based systems
such as blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or
leader, and wikis have little inherent structure, allowing structure to emerge according to
the needs of the users.[1] Wiki engines usually allow content to be written using a
simplified markup language and sometimes edited with the help of a rich-text editor.
[2]
 There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other
software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas
others are proprietary. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access);
for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding, or removing material. Others
may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may be imposed to
organize content.
The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-based website, and
is one of the most widely viewed sites in the world, having been ranked in the top ten
since 2007.[3] Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis,
with each one pertaining to a specific language. In addition to Wikipedia, there are
hundreds of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis
functioning as knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community
websites, and intranets. The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of
articles: as of February 2020, it has over 6 million articles. Ward Cunningham, the
developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described wiki as "the
simplest online database that could possibly work." [4] "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiki][note 1]) is
a Hawaiian word meaning "quick."[5][6][7]

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