What is a wiki?

A wiki is a collection of interlinked web pages, each of which can be visited and edited by anyone at anytime. You can even edit the page you are reading right now: just click "Edit this page" to the right! It really works! But of course it would be much appreciated if you would go to the sandbox first. Self-editors are assumed to be knowledgeable and responsible.

This is a collaborative website, constantly expanding as new people add pages about their interests, comment on old pages, etc.

Perhaps you would also like to know the answers to the following questions:

• w:What is a Wiki for?
• w:Why on Earth would I want to contribute to a wiki?
• Who is responsible for these pages?
• How does one start a page?
• w:How does one edit a page?
• Just why is Wikipedia so great, anyway?
• w:How can I build a Wiki of my own?

See also w:WikiWiki, w:Wikipedia.