Chapter 30. How Wikis and the Wikipedia Work
If you had to get to the core of the Internet’s primary purpose, it would come down to this: the ability to find information and share information with others.
There’s no better place to see that mission in action than in wikis, and especially the well-known Wikipedia. A wiki is a website that lets groups of people work together to create and edit bits of information, and then lets anyone who visits the wiki view that information.
That may sound abstract, so let’s take the best-known example of a wiki, the Wikipedia at www.wikipedia.org. The Wikipedia, as its name implies, is an huge online ...
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