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| Using a wiki provides a way to explore connections that are not based on genetic or legal ties, but may nevertheless be important: friends, neighbors, preachers, teachers, schoolmates, business partners, etc. It gives the user an easy way to see links to explore the connection between cousins who were like sisters as well as brothers who never met. It allows stories and documents to be linked to multiple people, and also allows a single page telling the story of an individual person to include multiple links to related information, including reference materials and websites outside the wiki. | Using a wiki provides a way to explore connections that are not based on genetic or legal ties, but may nevertheless be important: friends, neighbors, preachers, teachers, schoolmates, business partners, etc. It gives the user an easy way to see links to explore the connection between cousins who were like sisters as well as brothers who never met. It allows stories and documents to be linked to multiple people, and also allows a single page telling the story of an individual person to include multiple links to related information, including reference materials and websites outside the wiki. |
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| Finally, there´s this: Once you've learned some rules and conventions, it's relatively easy to add and edit wiki pages. This makes wikis a great tool for sharing information, but it also can result in a wiki becoming a hot mess of disorganized information. So wikis often have some areas with restricted access to allow for the messiness that often comes with collaborative projects without letting it get out of control. | Finally, there´s this: Once you've learned some rules and conventions, it's relatively easy to add and edit wiki pages. Wikis also can have both public areas viewable by anyone and private areas with restricted access to allow experimentation and informal communication between multiple authors or members of a group. This makes wikis a great tool for collaboration. |