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Conservapedia is a "wiki". Many other notable examples exist.[http://wikipedia.org][http://www.creationwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page] | Conservapedia is a "wiki". Many other notable examples exist.[http://wikipedia.org][http://www.creationwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page] | ||
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A wiki is a webpage that allows visitors to add, edit or remove content in an easy manner. This facilitates collaborative efforts by many people, often simultaneously.
Conservapedia is a "wiki". Many other notable examples exist.[1][2]
"Wiki" is from the Hawaiian word wiki wiki, meaning "quick." In part, the word refers to a simplified system of markup, which allows the most common kinds of HTML markup to be performed in a semi-intuitive way. For example, using the MediaWiki software, a user can italicize a word by preceding and following it with two apostrophes:
- ''italicized'' Becomes: italicized
instead of using the HTML syntax
- <i>italicized</i>
The technology was originally developed by Ward Cunningham, and saw early application among open source developers for maintaining code documentation. Wikimedia (the organization behind Wikipedia) developed the technology further, and made it available as open source software, under the name MediaWiki. MediaWiki is the software that hosts Wikipedia, Conservapedia, and many other wiki sites.
