wikis

User-edited pages

Wikis is the plural of wiki, a website that allows users to collaboratively create and edit content directly through a web browser.

The term comes from Hawaiian wiki wiki, meaning quick.

Wikipedia is the most famous example, but wikis serve countless organizations for documentation and knowledge sharing: Check the internal wikis for onboarding procedures.

encyclopedic

Wikipedia

Free collaborative online encyclopedia

reference · citation · sources · facts · research · subjects · categories · disambiguation · stub · portals

collaborative

Wikipedia

Free collaborative online encyclopedia

consensus · discussion · moderation · administrators · contributors · editors · volunteers · mediation

technical

markup

Added percentage for profit

infoboxes · categories · versioning · rollback · diff · watchlist · bots · API · extensions · namespaces

documentation

documentation

Written proof or instructions

  • how-toPractical instruction format
  • guidesThose who show directions
  • manualsInstructional reference documents

onboarding · policies · procedures · FAQs · troubleshooting · Confluence

platform

Fandom

Fan wiki hosting service

  • WikiaHosted fan-wiki platform
  • WiktionaryCollaborative open-source lexicon project
  • WikimediaFree knowledge project operator

hosted · software · open-source · installation · configuration · skins · plugins · extensions · database · server

Categories
Opposites
authorship model

wikismonographs

Scholarly single-topic publications

personal blogs · autobiographies

editability

wikisPDFs

Fixed-layout digital files

hard copy · published books · print media

editorial authority

wikisencyclopedias

Multi-volume knowledge collections

peer-reviewed journals · academic publications · scholarly journals · textbooks · academic journals

Phrases
Family

wiki

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G