What is a Wiki

A wiki is a collection of web pages that allows users to add content, but also allows anyone to edit the content. Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website.


The name was based on the Hawaiian term wiki wiki, meaning "quick" or "informal." Sometimes "wikiwiki" or "WikiWiki" is used instead of "wiki".

– From Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org accessed November 22, 2005

Wikis are fantastic tools to allow for collaborative writing. Every visitor with a password to this wiki can edit any page on the wiki. Editing is done in a very simple text language that is much easier to learn and read than HTML. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is called "the wiki”.

Documents associated with the wiki are available at the "Files" tab above.

You can also see all of the pages that make up this wiki using the "All Pages" tab also above.

If you'd like to learn more about how wikis work and how to contribute, you can play around in the SandBox to get used to editing the wiki; you can also check out WikiStyle to learn more about wiki style rules.

To learn more about this Leadership Learning Community Evaluation Learning Circle wiki, visit the Front Page.

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