Web Administration

What is a wiki?

A "Wiki or "WikiWikiWeb" is an "open-editing" system where the emphasis is on the authoring and collaboration of documents rather than the simple browsing or viewing of them. The basic concept of a WikiWikiWeb (or "wiki") is that (almost) anyone can edit any page. While at first this sounds like a recipe for complete anarchy, the truth is that sites using this system have developed surprisingly complex and rich communities for online collaboration and communication. Yes, it's possible for someone to go and destroy everything on a page, but it doesn't seem to happen often. And, many systems (including this one) have built-in mechanisms to restore content that has been defaced or destroyed. The point of the system is to simply make it as quick, easy and rewarding as possible to create or edit online content.

What is a wiki from it's inventor, Ward Cunningham http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

Another explanation of wiki from the MeatballWiki

You can read more about wiki at http://www.communitywiki.org/HowWikiWorks

And finally, some design principles.

The wiki engine this wiki uses is PmWiki.

Default Pages

Here are some useful pages installed along with the PmWiki software:

• PmWiki documentation is available at PmWiki.DocumentationIndex.
• What is the WikiWikiWeb?
• TipsForEditing and TextFormattingRules describe how to create pages in PmWiki.
• Practice editing pages in the WikiSandbox.