A List of Few Great Wikis
A wiki is a type of a website with software which allows the users to edit the contents of the site. It is a specific feature of website which has been founded by Ward Cunningham. It had been created in 1995 and became popular since its launch. Some of the features in a wiki allow the users to edit limited content. However, some features give maximum allowance to internet users to modify the content up to their wish. Nowadays, there are great wikis around the web which are the focus of attraction of numerous internet users. Here, a list of great wikis has been presented for your knowledge.
The first of the great wikis is obviously none other than Wikipedia. It is an online encyclopedia providing information of all sorts to millions of internet users across the world. It provides its services free of cost and has enabled wiki feature to allow the users to edit and modify its content. People can simply edit, remove or add information in the content of Wikipedia if they find something lacking or excessive in it. It is therefore one of the great wikis which have caught the eye of several people.
The second among the great wikis is WikiTravel which is a feature of Wikipedia foundation. It is basically a guide on popular travel destinations and places worth-visiting around the world. The third of great wikis is WikiHow which is a directory which tells you ways of doing certain things. It is a helpful guide which tells solutions of different problems you might go through in your daily life. Another wiki worthy of inclusion in the great wikis is WikiBooks. It is an online catalogue which gives you access to thousands of books which can be edited by users. CookBookWiki is also a popular wiki which provides recipes of hundreds of dishes. Anyone can edit it and modify the content uploaded in this wiki.
WikiMapia and WikiSummaries are also great wikis which are constantly visited and used by online users. Likewise, Wikitionary and Uncyclopedia are great wikis which are the dictionary and the encyclopedia respectively. The biggest benefit of wikis is that they allow the users of internet to stay connected with them. The internet users feels themselves as a part of the wikis and do not feel detached. It is also the reason of the popularity of wikis which is getting increased day by day.
