Over the past few years, “wiki” technology has been introduced as a way to allow individuals to modify and contribute to this knowledge base. What is wiki technology? The term “wiki,” derived from the ...

Getting over the barriers to wiki adoption So, you tried using a wiki, and it didn't work. Funky markup, neglect, one or … ...

The company describes its technology platform and philosophy below, in their own words. THE WIKI In its purest form, a wiki is an open collaborative content-editing environment.

Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began years earlier, around the the dawn of the World Wide Web. The ...

Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools. Jimmy Wales co-founded ...

Wikis and communities: Webworks.com Like standard websites before them, wikis have grown to be useful in any number of ways, and the potential of the wiki technology is only limited by the ...

"The World that Wikipedia Made" is co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and the High Tech Law Institute. It is the ninth event in an ...

With little notice from the outside world, the community-written encyclopedia Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word “truth.” Why should we care? Because ­Wikipedia’s ...