Knowra Wiki Wiki A wiki is a website whose pages can be collaboratively created and edited through a browser. Its linked pages and revision history support shared knowledge building.
Wiki software : Software for creating and managing collaboratively editable websites. It provides the editing, linking, and history features that make a wiki work.
Ward Cunningham : An American computer programmer who created the first wiki software. Cunningham launched the first wiki as a tool for collaborative software design.
Wikipedia : A multilingual, collaboratively written online encyclopedia launched in 2001. It is the best-known large-scale example of a public wiki.
Content management system : Software for creating, organizing, and publishing digital content, often through controlled editorial workflows. Many content management systems separate authors and editors from ordinary site visitors.
Revision control : The tracking and management of successive changes to digital files. Wiki revision histories record edits and make earlier page versions recoverable.
WikiWikiWeb : The first wiki, created by Ward Cunningham and launched in 1995. It established the model of browser-based pages that visitors could edit.
Wikimedia Commons : A Wikimedia project that hosts freely licensed media files and structured metadata. Its pages let a global contributor community organize and describe shared media.
Blog : A website or section of a website organized around dated posts, often displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs usually privilege sequential posts, while wikis organize pages through links and ongoing revision.
Version history : A record of successive saved versions of a document or other digital resource. Each wiki page can preserve its previous states as contributors revise it.
HyperCard : Apple software for creating linked collections of information cards, released in 1987. Cunningham cited its linked-card structure as an influence on wiki design.
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