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What are wikis good for?

 * Sharing information
 * Putting down your own ideas.
 * planning
 * Getting information people well need very quickly.
 * anything that needs quick changes from a group of people.

Why would an individual or group use a wiki?
People would use a wiki mostly to share information. Schools like it because teachers can put homework on the internet and it's fast. Others like it to share information like wikipedia. while some like it to plan for things like camping trips.

What are the downsides of wikis?
The down side to wikis are also there strength. for one anyone can change whats on your wiki. that means it can destroy what u worked at or make it better. aswell as the program is very simple what means you can't do complicated formating to change the layout of the page.


 * What should someone consider before deciding to use a wiki for a project?
 * What they should consider is getting information that may or may not be correct. Then using that information on their project and getting it wrong, and trustworthy(ness).


 * What are the different permission levels for a wiki?
 * The different permission levels of a wiki are admin, editor, author, reader, restricted reader, submitter, no permission.


 * Wikipedia is probably the best known wiki out there--what are some other wikis?
 * Some other wiki's are, wikianswers, orthodoxwiki, mediawiki, wikimatrix,


 * Which wiki site would you recommend to someone? Would it depend on what type of project they were doing?
 * The site that I would recommend to someone would depend on what they were working on. This is so, because if they needed certain answers, they could use wikianswers, or if they wanted to know facts about media, they could use wikimedia, etc.


 * What are the strengths and weaknesses of each?
 * The strenghts of using various sites to create a Wiki would be, finding out information on answers to questions someone might have, or wikipedia, which would help you find information on ANYTHING, and wikimedia, which would help you find out information on media. The weaknesses of each could be that one could be more trusted then something else or, some of the information, depending on which website that you got it from could be bias or not.

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What different sites are available for you to make your own wiki?
Here is the list of popular open source Wiki engines. This list is not complied in chronological order according to their popularity. MediaWiki is most popular and holds the crown amongst the list. MediaWiki free web based software Wiki engine that was originally written for Wikipedia. MediaWiki is been adopted by several corporate and institutions as their internal knowledge management system. MediaWiki is written in PHP language and supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL RDBMS. TWiki is a flexible, powerful, secure, yet simple web-based collaboration platform. TWiki can be used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base or any other groupware tool on either an intranet or on the Internet. This Wiki is been mostly used by lot of enterprise including [|Yahoo] and others. TWiki is written in PERL. PmWiki is a free wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they can be edited or new pages can be added. Page editing can be left open to the public or restricted to small groups of authors. PmWiki works over text file and is written in PHP. DokuWiki is simple and lightweight Wiki engine. The administration option is very simple and comes with one click installation. DokuWiki is highly customizable with your current website theme. DokuWiki is written in PHP and works on small text file. DokuWiki is my personal favorite since it keeps everything simple! MoinMoinWiki is a web application for making large database of knowledge basing. It produces nice structured information with feature of expansion information in cooperation manner with appropriate use it is power full content database. Alternatively, [|desktop edition] of the Wiki is also available. It uses flat file for storing the information."
 * " Top 5 -**
 * [|MediaWiki]**
 * [|TWiki]**
 * [|PmWiki]**
 * [|DokuWiki]**
 * [|MoinMoinWiki]**

cited http://www.benh.org/techblog/2007/08/top-5-open-source-wiki-engines/

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