Wiki

=Wiki=

Wiki author: Jenny Moon

A wiki is a website that allows people to create interlinked web pages and edit the web pages easily. Wikis are powered by wiki software, and they often used to create collaborative websites. Wiki can be served for a specific purpose, and users can use their editorial rights to edit the bits of texts. These bits of texts can be viewed and edited by anyone who enters wikis. The examples are wikipedia and what you are looking at right now. This is how you can use wiki. When you come to wiki, you can read what other people has written. If you click and "edit" button on an article, you can edit the article's text. You can change or add anything you see in the article you are reading. It is easy to vandalize wiki since anyone can edit a wiki at any time. However there are some tools to prevent vandalism. Fore example:


 * It is easy for anyone who sees vandalism to revert pages back to a pre-vandalism state.
 * It is easy for any user to alert the rest of the Wikipedia community to vandalism that is in progress.
 * It is possible for an admin to block or ban users (or IP addresses) who are persistently destructive.
 * It is possible for an admin to protect a page temporarily to keep people from changing it.
 * It is possible for an admin to delete an inappropriate page.

Also there is a more subtle less intentional form of vendalism called an "edit war". Edit wars can be happened in any wiki. It mostly happens in controversial topics. For example, if there's an article about George W Bush. A part of the side may like Bush, but others may not. Therefore, many people edit and re-edit to express their point of view.

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