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A wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser, without needing to know HTML. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet.

Overview of the Wiki activity

Wikis get their name from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," which means "very fast." A wiki is indeed a fast method for creating content as a group. It's a hugely popular format on the Web for creating documents as a group. There is usually no central editor of a wiki, no single person who has final editorial control. Instead, the community edits and develops its own content. Consensus views emerge from the work of many people on a document.

In Moodle, wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a document together, creating a class product, or each student can have their own wiki, visible only to them and their teacher.

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-A wiki enables documents to be authored collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser. A teacher can add one or more Moodle Wiki activities to a course. The Wiki module enables participants to work together by adding, expanding and changing the content of a special set of linked webpages. Old page versions are never deleted and can be restored.
+A wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser, without needing to know HTML. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet.
-"Wiki" means "super fast" in the Hawaiian language, and it is the speed of creating and updating pages that is one of the defining aspects of wiki technology. Generally, there is no prior review before modifications are accepted or posted.  Most Moodle wikis are open to the course participants.  In later versions of Moodle, a wiki can be group specific.
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/glrQ4cNpLC4 | desc = Overview of the Wiki activity}}
-There are potentially 9 different ways a Wiki can work in Moodle 1.8, depending upon two spectific settings.  A matrix of Group mode settings (no group, seperate groups, visible groups) and type settings (teacher, group and  student) will define its behavior.
- Note: while MoodleDocs and Wikipedia are also wikis, the Moodle wiki module
+* [[Wiki settings]]
- is a slightly different flavor.
+* [[Using Wiki]]
+* [[Wiki_module_FAQ|Wiki FAQ]]
-== See also ==
+Wikis get their name from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," which means "very fast." A wiki is indeed a fast method for creating content as a group. It's a hugely popular format on the Web for creating documents as a group. There is usually no central editor of a wiki, no single person who has final editorial control. Instead, the community edits and develops its own content. Consensus views emerge from the work of many people on a document.
+In Moodle, wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a document together, creating a class product, or each student can have their own wiki, visible only to them and their teacher.
-*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=366 Wiki module forum]
-*[http://download.moodle.org/docs/using_moodle/ch11_wikis.pdf Using Moodle Chapter 11: Wikis]
-*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=37671 Template for wikis] forum discussion
-*[[Wiki development]]
-*[[Tiddlywiki integration]]
-[[Category:Teacher]]
 [[Category:Wiki]]
-[[Category:Modules]]
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+[[es:Wikis]]
+[[eu:Wikiak]]
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+[[it:Attività Wiki]]
+[[ja:Wikiモジュール]]

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Wiki activity: Difference between revisions

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