What's With Wikis?

Seeing as my last post mentioned Wikis, I thought it me be best to explain the term to the non-geeks (it’s true, I do have friends who aren’t geeks, although one could argue that they wouldn’t have read the previous post and so wouldn’t need to know what a Wiki is… ;-)

Anyway, for those who are still getting to grips with the term blog, I bring you the Wiki. Taken from the Hawaiian “wiki wiki”, which means quick. It’s a way to make a website that can easily be edited by anyone (for some value of easily :-) It’s much easier to edit than a traditional website, but you still have to learn yet-another markup language and set of rules, so it isn’t quite at the level of using Word, for example.

TWiki is the only one I’ve used, and WhatIsWiki is another explanation of what these things are.