Wiki This, Wiki That

More Than a Web Site

© Linda Roeder

May 7, 2007

A wiki is much more than just a personal Web site. It's a Web site you and your friends can all edit together.


As far as wikis, I have personally been using Wikispaces for several years now. I started a site where people can come and add bike routes all around the U.S. Anyone with a good, tested bike route can come and post it there. Then other people can come find the bike routes and use them. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that people can add to and update at will.

Anyone can start a wiki and you can start yours about anything. Then you can invite your friends or group members to come help you update your wiki and add to it. Some wikis are fully customizable. That means you can change the colors, fonts and overall look of your wiki.

You can make your wiki fully public which means anyone that comes across your wiki can make changes to it and add to it. Or you can make it members only. This means that only people you add to the members list will be able to make changes to and add to your wiki. Some will also let you make them totally private so that only members can even see your wiki, but this is usually at an extra cost.

Try out your own wiki. Then come back here and tell me what you think about it. After you create your own wiki you can come back here and post a link to it in the Internet forum .


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