Glossary

At our meeting the question of what is a wiki arose? We will probaby encounter other "21st century vocab" so i thought a glossary might help, especially since folks are at different places in the 21st century continuum.

Wiki "The word 'wiki' is a short form of the Hawaiian wiki-wiki, which meands 'quick'. Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995," He was looking for an easy authoring tool for folks who wanted to publish their own work." (Richardson. //Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts//, 55) So what is a wiki? : It is a place where anyone can edit anything, any time they want". Wikipedia enables people to collaborate in cyberspace in the construction of knowledge in an interactive, non-static, organized fashion. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia, which is a virtual encyclopedia continuously being revised and expanded.