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A wiki is a website dynamically editable by its users, allowing the creation, editing, and navigation of dynamically interlinked web pages. They are typically powered by standard wiki software platforms such as MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org). Wikis were invented by Ward Cunningham, of the Portland Patterns Group, in 1995 (Cunningham and Leuf 2001).
The most well-known wiki at the time of this writing is certainly Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/), a global web-based free collaborative encyclopedia, published in 282 different languages and currently boasting over 19.9 million articles.
Wikis are widely used to support collaborative content creation, editing, and publishing in biomedical research. Examples include the WikiProteins project (http://conceptwiki.org/index.php/WikiProteins); the NeuroLex neuroscience ontology wiki (http://neurolex.org/wiki); Open Wetware (http://openwetware.org); and many individual entries in Wikipedia itself, (e.g. “Wnt Signalling...
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Clark, T. (2013). Wiki. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_1470
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