Editing Wiki (section)

=== Applications ===

[[File:EnglishWikipedia 27June2024.png|thumb|right|The home page of the English Wikipedia]]
The English Wikipedia has the largest user base among wikis on the [[World Wide Web]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php?sort=users_desc&th=8000&lines=500 |title=List of largest (Media)wikis |access-date=December 12, 2014 |publisher=S23-Wiki |date=April 3, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825164715/https://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php?sort=users_desc&th=8000&lines=500 |archive-date=August 25, 2014 }}</ref> and ranks in the top 10 among all Web sites in terms of traffic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/topsites|title=Alexa Top 500 Global Sites|access-date=April 26, 2015|publisher=[[Alexa Internet]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302173920/https://www.alexa.com/topsites|archive-date=March 2, 2015}}</ref> Other large wikis include the [[WikiWikiWeb]], [[Memory Alpha]], [[Wikivoyage]], and previously [[Susning.nu]], a Swedish-language knowledge base. [[List of medical wikis|Medical]] and health-related wiki examples include [[Ganfyd]], an online collaborative medical reference that is edited by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts.<ref name=BMC>{{citation|title=Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education |doi=10.1186/1472-6920-6-41|pmc=1564136|journal=BMC Medical Education|volume=6|pmid=16911779|page=41|year=2006|first1=M. N. K.|last1=Boulos|first2=I.|last2=Maramba|first3=S.|last3=Wheeler |doi-access=free }}</ref> Many wiki [[online community|communities]] are private, particularly within [[Enterprise software|enterprises]]. They are often used as internal documentation for in-house systems and applications. Some companies use wikis to allow customers to help produce software documentation.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Wikis for Collaborative Software Documentation | first1 = C. | last1 = Müller | first2 = L. | last2 = Birn | url = https://i-know.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/47_wikis-for-collaborative-software-documentation.pdf | publisher = Proceedings of I-KNOW '06 | date = September 6–8, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110706095145/https://i-know.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/47_wikis-for-collaborative-software-documentation.pdf |website=i-know.tugraz.at | archive-date = July 6, 2011 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> A study of corporate wiki users found that they could be divided into "synthesizers" and "adders" of content. Synthesizers' frequency of contribution was affected more by their impact on other wiki users, while adders' contribution frequency was affected more by being able to accomplish their immediate work.<ref>{{citation |first1 = A. | last1 = Majchrzak | first2 = C. | last2 = Wagner | first3 = D. | last3 = Yates |chapter=Corporate wiki users: results of a survey |title=Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis | publisher=Symposium on Wikis |year=2006 |pages=99–104 |doi=10.1145/1149453.1149472 |isbn=978-1-59593-413-0 | s2cid = 13206858 }}</ref> From a study of thousands of wiki deployments, Jonathan Grudin concluded careful stakeholder analysis and education are crucial to successful wiki deployment.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=138573 |title=Wikis at work: Success factors and challenges for sustainability of enterprise wikis  |first1=Jonathan |last1=Grudin |first2=Erika Shehan |last2=Poole |website=Microsoft Research |year=2015 |access-date=June 16, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904031729/https://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=138573 |archive-date=September 4, 2015  }}</ref>

In 2005, the Gartner Group, noting the increasing popularity of wikis, estimated that they would become mainstream collaboration tools in at least 50% of companies by 2009.<ref>{{citation|first=Michelle|last=Conlin|title=E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago|date=November 28, 2005|work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek|url=https://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-11-27/e-mail-is-so-five-minutes-ago|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017131307/https://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-11-27/e-mail-is-so-five-minutes-ago|archive-date=October 17, 2012}}</ref>{{update inline|date=July 2013}} Wikis can be used for [[project management]].<ref>{{cite web|title=HomePage|url=https://projectmanagementwiki.org|work=Project Management Wiki.org|accessdate=May 8, 2012|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816221509/https://projectmanagementwiki.org/|archivedate=August 16, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ways to Wiki: Project Management|url=https://www.editme.com/Ways-to-Wiki-Project-Management|work=EditMe|date=January 4, 2010|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508152328/https://www.editme.com/Ways-to-Wiki-Project-Management|archivedate=May 8, 2012}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|failed=y|date=July 2013}} Wikis have also been used in the academic community for sharing and dissemination of information across institutional and international boundaries.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1142215.1142259|title=SensorWiki.org: a collaborative resource for researchers and interface designers |isbn=978-2-84426-314-8|first1 = M. M. | last1 = Wanderley | first2 = D. | last2 = Birnbaum | first3 = J. | last3 = Malloch | year=2006 |journal=NIME '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression |publisher=IRCAM – Centre Pompidou|pages=180–183 }}</ref> In those settings, they have been found useful for collaboration on [[grant writing]], [[strategic planning]], departmental documentation, and committee work.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Putting Wikis to Work in Libraries |first=Nancy T. |last=Lombardo |volume=27 |issue=2 |date=June 2008 |journal=Medical Reference Services Quarterly |pages=129–145 |doi=10.1080/02763860802114223 |pmid = 18844087 |s2cid=11552140 }}</ref> In the mid-2000s, the increasing trend among industries toward collaboration placed a heavier impetus upon educators to make students proficient in collaborative work, inspiring even greater interest in wikis being used in the classroom.<ref name=Legal/>

Wikis have found some use within the legal profession and within the government. Examples include the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s [[Intellipedia]], designed to share and collect [[intelligence assessment]]s, [[DKosopedia]], which was used by the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] to assist with review of documents about the internment of detainees in [[Guantánamo Bay]];<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Beth Simone|last1=Noveck|title=Wikipedia and the Future of Legal Education|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jled57&id=11&div=&collection=|journal=Journal of Legal Education|date=2007 |pages=3|volume=57}}</ref> and the wiki of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]], used to post court rules and allow practitioners to comment and ask questions. The [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] operates [[Peer-to-Patent]], a wiki to allow the public to collaborate on finding [[prior art]] relevant to the examination of pending patent applications. [[Queens]], New York has used a wiki to allow citizens to collaborate on the design and planning of a local park. [[Cornell Law School]] founded a wiki-based legal dictionary called [[Wex]], whose growth has been hampered by restrictions on who can edit.<ref name=Noveck>{{Citation|title=Wikipedia and the Future of Legal Education|last=Noveck|first=Beth Simone|journal=Journal of Legal Education|volume=57|issue=1|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/jled57&div=8&id=&page=|date=March 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703005842/https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals%2Fjled57&div=8&id=&page=|archive-date=July 3, 2014}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

In academic contexts, wikis have also been used as project collaboration and research support systems.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Au|first=C. H.|title=2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) |chapter=Wiki as a research support system – A trial in information systems research |date=December 2017|pages=2271–2275|doi=10.1109/IEEM.2017.8290296|isbn=978-1-5386-0948-4|s2cid=44029462}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCECS2014/WCECS2014_pp358-363.pdf|title=Using Wiki for Project Collaboration – with Comparison on Facebook|last=Au|first=Cheuk-hang|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412152358/https://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCECS2014/WCECS2014_pp358-363.pdf|archive-date=April 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== City wikis ====

A ''city wiki'' or ''local wiki'' is a wiki used as a [[knowledge management|knowledge base]] and [[social network]] for a specific [[geography|geographical]] locale.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andersen |first=Michael |title=Welcome to Davis, Calif.: Six lessons from the world's best local wiki|date=2009-11-06 |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2009/11/welcome-to-davis-calif-six-lessons-from-the-worlds-best-local-wiki/|access-date=2023-01-06|website=Nieman Lab|archive-date=August 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808084426/https://www.niemanlab.org/2009/11/welcome-to-davis-calif-six-lessons-from-the-worlds-best-local-wiki/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=McGann |first=Laura |title=Knight News Challenge: Is a wiki site coming to your city? Local Wiki will build software to make it simple|date=2010-06-18 |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/knight-news-challenge-is-a-wiki-site-coming-to-your-city-local-wiki-will-build-software-to-make-it-simple/|access-date=2023-01-06|website=Nieman Lab|archive-date=June 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625035936/https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/knight-news-challenge-is-a-wiki-site-coming-to-your-city-local-wiki-will-build-software-to-make-it-simple/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]: Makice, Kevin (July 15, 2009). [https://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/hey-kid-support-your-local-wiki/ Hey, Kid: Support Your Local Wiki] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427080359/https://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/hey-kid-support-your-local-wiki/ |date=April 27, 2015 }}</ref> The term city wiki is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. Such a wiki contains information about specific instances of things, ideas, people and places. Such highly localized information might be appropriate for a wiki targeted at local viewers, and could include:
* Details of public establishments such as public houses, bars, accommodation or social centers
* Owner name, opening hours and statistics for a specific shop
* Statistical information about a specific road in a city
* Flavors of ice cream served at a local ice cream parlor
* A biography of a local mayor and other persons