gr's blog: Wiki in plain english..

About the blog...

This blog is my online notes(as his blog is for every other blogger),a medium to share literally anything I want to.Be it technical stuffs,something related to movies n music or something else.Anything new I get to learn,I'm gonna post them here,so that I don't need to search elsewhere things I already know :-) and, of course others don't have to search somewhere else either.
Just click on the topic(label) of your interest n start reading.I hope you get here,stuffs u r lookin for.
Feel free to contact me;be it suggestions,mistakes or anything u'd want to share with me,just scribble in my guest-book.

- gg@ur@vr

What is Wiki ??

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.

Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

"Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast"."Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is," but this is a backronym.

WikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki.Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki" shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web.