Wiki! Wiki! - What’s a Wiki?
Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 5:03 pm by Kathy Jackson
Wiki software is “a specialized content management engine that let’s anyone add content or a new page to a website, and edit any existing content.” The software saves previous versions of the page to prevent accidental deletions or vandalism from ruining the existing site content.
You are probably aware of the ‘Wikipedia’ website. We’ve all used it from time to time and some of us have probably added or edited content on the Wikipedia website. This is likely the best known wiki-built site on the internet. Anybody can edit the content of Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com) and it is rivaling even the best known and largest encyclopedias on the internet now.
Wow! Think about it! Your visitors can add all of the content you need….and the beautiful part is that they WILL!
Your site won’t likely become the next Wikipedia. However, if you concentrate your efforts on a niche topic that is interesting to you, when your visitors begin to contribute to the site on a regular basis it can quickly grow and become a site that has a wealth of information on the topic.
The best idea to make your wiki-built site grow and prosper is to choose a topic that has mass appeal and then concentrate on a narrow focus. If you make your wiki site too broad, it won’t work and if you make your topic too technical or too difficult that won’t work either.
The fact is that there is an endless variety of topics that people would love to share their knowledge about. Self-help and health topics are of interest to many people as are sports, gaming, needle crafts and everything in between. If there is one thing that Web 2.0 has taught us, it’s that it is much more profitable to make websites that are interactive.
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