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So now that the world is getting comfortable with "blogs" it's time for the next deceivingly obvious web-based technology with a nutty name. Wikis are basically content managed web sites minus security. Anyone can edit the content on them and post new content. The fundamental idea is exciting; a web-based knowledge aggregator where anyone who has something to contribute can. However, this is the real world. While Wikis are fringe now, the first one that gets really big and popular is sure to be defaced by idiots on a regular basis. Or maybe I have the idiot mentality all wrong. I guess part of the fun of defacing a large corporate web site is getting past the security. With no security to conquer, why deface?

In any case, here are some good links describing what a Wiki is, where it came from, and pointers to some examples of the latest craze in open source fun...

• Wikis Described in Plain English
• Weave a wiki web
• Example: Wikipedia.org - The Wiki Encyclopedia