A wiki is a type of website that lets anyone who can access the wiki create and

change its pages. The word is Internet slang. The word Wiki is short for WikiWik
iWeb. Wikiwiki is a word from the Hawaiian language, meaning "fast" or "speed".[
1] Examples of wikis include Wikipedia, Citizendium, and Conservapedia.
Every wiki can be changed, or edited, by anyone who has an account on the wiki,
or by everyone in the world if the wiki allows anonymous access, although some i
mportant pages cannot be changed by anyone. Wikis are central places where we al
l can share information with each other, people can add new information, and the
n people read them. Wikis allow information from all around the world to be coll
ected.
On a wiki, people can write pages together to add to the information. If one per
son writes something wrong, then the next person can correct it. The next person
can also add something new to the page. Because of this, the page gets better w
henever someone changes it. If someone writes information that is very obviously
wrong, and the person actually was to vandalise, it would be changed by adminis
trators, and the person will not be able to change the wiki anymore. Pages are w
atched closely.
Users can also discuss things on wikis. Discussion can help people understand th
ings better, or gives people a chance to tell their views. In Wikipedia the talk
pages are for that, but in some wikis, the article and the discussion are in th
e same page.
Wikis can be used for different things; not all wikis follow the same rules for
using them. For example, the purpose of Wikipedia is to write articles, for an e
ncyclopedia. That is why in Wikipedia, people do not want to hear general discus
sion that does not help in writing articles.
Ward Cunningham started the first wiki in March 1995.[2][3][4] Many people liked
the place and wrote there, after which they started similar websites. Wiki is a
lso an abbreviation for Wikipedia.