Wiki
A wiki is a powerful collaborative tool that allows user to add and edit content. User can also crate easealy new pages. If necessary it's possible to add some permissions to the pages (lock pages or only identified users can modify the content of 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.
Generally users that wants to participate to make a wiki evolve, they have to respect some rules for editing content. The goal of this rules are to standardize the content, to make easy the access to the content of each page.
Educational usage
- wiki as a collaborative content management system
- wiki as a resource repository
- wiki as a project/class management tool
- wiki as a website