Sharing Easily on the Web with a Wiki
July 26th, 2007
Recently I have been playing around with MediaWiki, and I must say the whole idea of a wiki is really exciting to me. Obviously Wikis are nothing new, millions of people use Wikipedia everyday including myself. I never contributed to Wikipedia so I was never a part of the community and did not have a full understanding of how powerful a wiki can be. I must say at the early stages of using MediaWiki I’m really excited to be working with a wiki on a regular basis. Stripping away all the bells and whistles of tradition website and delivering quality content for everyone by everyone is really what the web is all about, and wikis do a great job at that. It is exciting to see non web geeks contributing and sharing information that would never make its way out in the open if it weren’t for software like wikis. Part of the whole reason I enjoy working on the web is the community of people who openly share information and are willing to help people they have never met and it’s nice to see non geeks around me entering the community as well. Just wanted to share what is exciting me lately and if you haven’t contributed to a wiki yet I suggest you go out and do it. There are plenty to choose from include the ever popular, Wikipedia.
While doing some hunting around for information on wikis I came across these funny pictures from Flickr that you may enjoy.
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