ITIS 1210 Introduction to Web-Based Information Systems Chapter 30 How Wikis and the Wikipedia Work

Wikis  The Internet is about  Finding information  Sharing it with others  Wikis are Websites that let  Groups of people  Work together  To create and edit information  So that it is publicly available

Wikis  Ward Cunnigham  Created 1 st wiki website WikiWikiWeb in 1994  “Wiki” is Hawaiian for “fast”  Remembers Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so- called "Wiki Wiki" Chance RT-52 shuttle bus line that runs between the airport's terminals Wiki Chance RT-52bus lineWiki Chance RT-52bus line  According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web

Encyclopedia  Wikipedia  Portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia  Encyclopedia  Medieval Latin meaning  A course of general education  From Greek  Education + child-rearing

Encyclopedia A work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject

Wikis  Wikipedia  Created in 2001  Online encyclopedia  Anyone can use or edit  Available in multiple languages  September  Millions of entries  8.29 articles

Wikis  Wikipedia Wikipedia  Wikispecies Wikispecies  Wikiquote Wikiquote  Wiktionary Wiktionary  Others  Bottom of any Wiki main page

Wikipedia  Changes are made live  No one edits them initially  Pages have a revision history  Can see changes made and when  Alerts available  Administrators have special privileges  Override changes  Protecting pages against updates  Banning certain users