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According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham|Ward Cunningham]], the inventor of the very first wiki (WikiWikiWeb),
a wiki is //"The simplest online database that could possibly work."//

A wiki engine is a piece of software that enables the creation of a wiki site. A wiki site allows users to create and modify
pages on the fly using their web browser, and a basic markup syntax.

The wiki platform allows collaboration and group communication quite unlike anything else.

The diagram to the right shows an example of how a wiki is edited by many users over a period of time, resulting in
what you see presently.

Reference the following pages:
* [[http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki]]
* [[http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/WhatIsaWiki]]
* [[http://oddmuse.org/wiki/What_Is_A_Wiki]]
* [[http://webtrends.about.com/od/wiki/a/what_is_a_wiki.htm]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software]]
* [[http://communitywiki.org/HowWikiWorks]]

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===Aaron's Take
My take on "what is a wiki?" is pretty simple: A wiki is a community. It's a place where users the world over can collaborate and put their
thoughts together all in one place. It's a platform that allows creating and peer reviewing content, seamlessly integrated.

A better description would be a wiki is //the simplest collaborative content management system that could possibly work.// ([[http://webtrends.about.com/od/wiki/a/what_is_a_wiki.htm|citation]])

====Aaron's Further Thoughts
You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize that Ward Cunningham was right. A wiki is a database. The more I 
get involved in coding, and thinking about the coding of Aneuch, I realize more and more that it's essentially a fancy 
(well, maybe not fancy) front-end to a database engine. I've already had numerous thoughts on how to incorporate the core 
of Aneuch into other projects (and oddly enough, it's always in a "database" capacity). Anyways, just thought I'd share that.\\
-- [[AaronGraves]] //Thu Jul 11 16:50:41 CDT 2013//

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