Wiki, website that can be modified or contributed to by users Wikis can be dated to 1995, when american computer programmer ward cunningham created a new collaborative technology for organizing information on websites. In 2003, economics phd student andrea ciffolilli argued that the low transaction costs of participating in a wiki created a catalyst for collaborative development, and that features such as allowing easy access to past versions of a page favored creative construction over creative destruction. English wikipedia wikipedias in germanic languages encyclopedias in english global culture internet properties established in 2001 2001 establishments in the united states Wikipedia's name is a combination of two words, wiki and encyclopedia.[3] wikipedia was started on january 9, 2001, by jimmy wales and larry sanger as part of an earlier online encyclopedia named nupedia. Overview every wiki can be changed, or edited, by anyone who has an account on the wiki, or by everyone in the world if the wiki allows it
Some important pages can only be changed by certain users Wikis are central places where everybody can share and add new information, and then people read them. Archived from the original on november 29, 2021 Wikimedia list of wikipedias and their statistics Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that allows users to edit and create articles collaboratively in multiple languages.
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