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The following is a narrative presentation of basic Wiki Concepts.

==Basic Wiki Concepts==
A [[Wiki]] is a website where any visitor can edit pages. The first Wiki was [[Ward Cunningham]]'s website [[WikiWikiWeb]]. Wikis were first brought to public attention by the collaborative on-line encyclopedia [[Wikipedia]].

==WikiModes and Editing==
[[WikiModes]] were first defined on the [[WikiWikiWeb]] as "modes of interaction and annotation" on the wiki. The principal modes are [[DocumentMode]], which is when a Wiki contribution is written in the third person and left unsigned, and [[ThreadMode]], which is a form of discussion where the wiki community holds a conversation. 

[[Ward Cunningham]] advocated the use of [[DocumentMode]] rather [[ThreadMode]], in other words [[DissertationFavoredOverDialog]]. Each page was to begin with an [[OpeningStatement]], and visitors were encouraged to edit pages in the role of an anonymous [[WikiAuthor]].

One form of editing is [[ReFactoring]], which is a programming term which has come to mean rearranging a wiki page to improve it's structure. 

*[[ThreadMess]]
*[[WikiMaster]]

*[[RecentChanges]]

==Wiki Tags and EditHints==
*[[WikiBadge]]
*[[WikiTag]]
*[[WikiSquatting]]

An [[EditHint]] is a marker set to point out places where edits would be of benefit, such as to clarify the original intent or to apply a second opinion.

EditHint is the general tag, and there are numerous specialized refactoring tags, such as [[RefactorMe]], AnswerMe, [[DeleteMe]], [[DeleteWhenCooked]], DeleteThisPageSoon, TooLargeToGrasp, [[BrokenLink]], [[BrokenWhitespace]] and [[ToDo]].

*[[OnTopic]]
*[[OffTopic]]

==Wiki Users==
*[[RealNamesPlease]]
*[[WikiCommunity]]

==Wiki Welcome and Help==
*[[OneMinuteWiki]]
*[[RoadMaps]]

==Interwiki==
*[[InterWiki]]
*[[TourBus]]
*[[OneBigWiki]]
*[[OneBigSoup]]
*[[NearLink]]

==WikiPhilosophy==
*[[WikiOnWiki]]
*[[WikiNode]]

==WikiHistory==
*XpFreeZone
*[[WikiMindWipe]]
*[[WikiReductionists]]

==Other==
*[[AntiPattern]]
*[[SocialSoftware]]
*[[WikiSpam]]
*[[Wikilandia]]


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