So, new terminology this week. Did you know that the word "wiki" actually means "fast" in Hawaiian? So what does the name have to do with the application?
A man by the name of Ward Cunningham (insert Leave It To Beaver and Happy Days jokes here)invented the first WikiWikiWeb software program in 1994 and had it up and running by mid 1995 with Wikipedia as the first online collaborative database in which users could openly and freely change, update or correct each other's content without strict guidelines as to how the content is organized.
Making changes to a Wikipedia article is as easy as 1-2-3: (1) have a user account that allows you privilages as a content editor, (2) find an article that you would like to add to or improve in some way, and (3) make approapriate changes. However, most people just choose to add hyperlink to other pages in an article. As a creator/editor you are never stuck with someone's editorial changes. You can choose to revert the article back to a pre-stupido copy.
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