I love Wikipedia; even though I take it's content with a grain of salt. I have used it more and more though to get a first start on any (however weird) subject. That is a Wiki right? But fundamentally, Wikis I'm not understanding how to participate activily in, except that I can access the page through an editor like Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download ) and add my comment to the page (...I can guarantee that this technology will be much more user freindly in the next two years, except that it will require your computer to be identified..... so for me, I will not be using much.... I prefer iconclastic anonymity....)
Wiki is in Ward's original description:
The simplest online database that could possibly work. Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
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