What It Is

What better way to bring an organization together than to allow its members to view and edit information   about the company.  This way, each person can use his/her area of expertise to share with others, therefore enlightening them in various areas.  A wiki is a website that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own web browser. This is made possible by the specified software that runs on the web server. These websites end up being created mainly by a collaborative effort of the site visitors. The name of this project "Wiki" comes from the Hawaiian phrase by the same name, which means "super fast." I would imagine that, if you have thousands of users adding content to a website on a regular basis, the site could grow "super fast." More specifically, my company’s website of this nature is written collectively by employees from all parts of the organization. With a few exceptions, articles can be edited by anyone with access to the company Intranet. However, authorship on this site is not anonymous — every change to a page is tracked on its history page. This special tool has many uses in business, including: collaborating with colleagues across the organization, co-creating & maintaining documents, searching for information that peers create, sharing expertise with the entire business community, and enhancing technological skills.