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This website is powered by a wiki. If you want, you can modify this page, changing words or sentences. All modification are stored and you can always undo all the modifications.
This website is powered by a wiki. If you want, you can modify this page, changing words or sentences. All modification are stored and you can always undo all the modifications.


Writing content on a wiki is very simple, user has to learn a small syntax (for mediawiki: [[Guidelines:How_to_edit_a_page]]) to personnalize and to structure the content. It could be quite difficult at the beginning, because a wiki has a non conventional interface.
Writing content on a wiki is very simple, user has to learn a small syntax (for mediawiki: [[Guidelines:How_to_edit_a_page]]) to personnalize and to structure the content. Each wiki has a non-conventional interface, so at the beginning the user could have some difficulties to adapt himself to the soft.


==Educational usage==
==Educational usage==

Revision as of 10:54, 30 August 2005

A wiki is a powerful, collaborative tool that allows user to add and edit content. User can also crate a new page about a new content. Sometimes, you can introduce permission to lock a page.

This website is powered by a wiki. If you want, you can modify this page, changing words or sentences. All modification are stored and you can always undo all the modifications.

Writing content on a wiki is very simple, user has to learn a small syntax (for mediawiki: Guidelines:How_to_edit_a_page) to personnalize and to structure the content. Each wiki has a non-conventional interface, so at the beginning the user could have some difficulties to adapt himself to the soft.

Educational usage

  1. wiki as collaborative content management system
  2. wiki as resources repository
  3. wiki as project/class management tool
  4. wiki as website

Open Source Softwares

  1. MediaWiki
  2. Doku
  3. WakkaWiki
  4. Wikini