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This document discusses the history and characteristics of wikis. It describes how wikis allow for easy editing and navigation between pages through linking. The document is organized into sections covering topics like editing features, linking, searching, communities, and legal issues related to wikis.

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This document discusses the history and characteristics of wikis. It describes how wikis allow for easy editing and navigation between pages through linking. The document is organized into sections covering topics like editing features, linking, searching, communities, and legal issues related to wikis.

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articles: as of February 2020, it has over 6 million articles.

Ward Cunningham, the


developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described wiki as
"the simplest online database that could possibly work."[4] "Wiki" (pronounced
[wiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick."[5][6][7]

Contents
1 Characteristics
1.1 Editing
1.1.1 Navigation
1.1.2 Consistency
1.1.3 Basic syntax
1.1.4 Visual editing
1.1.5 Version history
1.1.6 Edit summary
1.2 Navigation
1.3 Linking and creating pages
1.4 Searching
2 History
3 Alternative definitions
4 Implementations
5 Trust and security
5.1 Controlling changes
5.2 Trustworthiness and reliability of content
5.3 Security
5.3.1 Potential malware vector
6 Communities
6.1 Applications
6.2 City wikis
6.3 WikiNodes
6.4 Participants
6.5 Growth factors
7 Conferences
8 Rules
9 Legal environment
10 See also
11 Notes
12 References
13 Further reading
14 External links

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