3/6/09 Individual Blog (Alex Kreul, wiki group)

I have gotten pretty far on my research this week, finding a lot of information about the history of wikis.

- first wiki site, WikiWiki, created by Ward Cunningham in the 1990s

- "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian

(http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLi...)

- wiki concept grew slowly from 1995 until 2001 when Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger developed Wikipedia

(http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLi...)

Research still to be done:  accuracy of wikis in existence, especially of Wikipedia.