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Netcare Wiki Links The Netcare Education Division The Netcare Clinical Governance Division The Netcare Call Centre Other Wiki Links Wikipedia - one of the largest Wiki's today Wikibooks – textbooks; sister project of Wikipedia. Wikinews – A collaborative news service; sister project of Wikipedia. Wikinfo – a fork of Wikipedia, inspired by Wikipedia, but without the neutral point of view policy, instead using a sympathetic point of view. Wikiquote – a quote repository. A sister project of Wikipedia. Wikisource – Primary sources for use in Wikipedia, a sister project of Wikipedia. Wikispecies – a directory of species. A sister project of Wikipedia. Wikiversity – an online learning program; a sister project of Wikipedia. Wiktionary – a multilingual Dictionary project; a sister project of Wikipedia. Wikia - (formerly Wikicities) A wiki farm hosting wikis for various online communities. Wikitravel - comprehensive travel guide website; using the MediaWiki software. What is a Wiki History WikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so-called "Wiki Wiki" Chance RT-52 shuttle bus line that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web." Wiki Wiki is a reduplication of wiki, a Hawaiian-language word for fast. The word "wiki" is a shorter form of wiki wiki. Cunningham was in part inspired by Apple's HyperCard program developed by the idea of Vannevar Bush. Bush had designed a system allowing users to create virtual “card stacks” supporting links among the various cards. Cunningham developed Bush's idea by allowing users to "comment on and change one another's text". In the early 2000s, wikis were increasingly adopted in the enterprise as collaborative software. Common uses included project communication, intranets, and documentation, initially for technical users. Today some companies use wikis as their only collaborative software and as a replacement for static intranets.  On March 15, 2007, wiki entered the Oxford English Dictionary Online. Wiki is sometimes interpreted as the "backronym" for what I know is, which describes the knowledge contribution, storage, and the exchange function. Common Characteristics A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively, in a simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki". A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing and searching information. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Generally, there is no review before modifications are accepted. Many wikis are open to the general public without the need to register any user account. Sometimes session log-in is requested to acquire a "wiki-signature" cookie for autosigning edits. Many edits, however, can be made in real-time, and appear almost instantaneously online. A Netcare Initiative supported by the MIS Division