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What is a Wiki?

According to Wikipedia:

A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː]^[1]) is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.^[2] A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites, the first wiki (WikiWikiWeb) was developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s.^[3]^[4] Wikis allow for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.^[5] Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is probably the best known wiki.^[4]

Wikis that are editable by the general public (such as Wikipedia) have been criticized for their reliability, simply because malicious or incompetent individuals may introduce disinformation.^[4] Proponents rely on their community of users who can catch malicious content and correct it. Wikis in general make a basic assumption of the goodness of people.^[4]

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