What is a Wiki?

I have a new series for you on wiki’s & how easy they are to use as a website!

I will start with a definition, then give you some examples in the next blog post & then in future blog posts, we’ll give you some options to create your own website on a wiki. My technical experience is limited, but I created a nice wiki in 3 hrs, so you can too!

Not so long ago if you wanted a website, you had to hire someone to do it. Now, wiki’s offer the perfect way to create a site. A website has some limitations even if you have created it yourself. My understanding is that making changes easily is difficult because things are ‘hard-coded’ which translates to me to be ‘don’t ask to change it often’.

What is a wiki? a wiki is a user based document online… they were used for doing collaborative work, but now they are a simple way to create a website. Wikipedia is the most famous one.

Most of our website is a wiki (but it’s closed, we’re not allowing anyone to add to it). We really like our wiki because it’s so flexible in how you can display information & images. We also have a private wiki where Heidi & I work on documents together. We live 300 miles apart, so it’s necessary & so much easier than email a document back & forth! At first, we started using Google Doc’s, but a wiki is much better!

In my next post I’ll show you examples of digiscrapping wiki’s. Here’s a video that’s short & a MUST see! I’ve watched it a few times & love the *SNAP*.

I found the video on James Lim’s blog

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