A place for me too - private wikis

As we've already covered, a wiki is a type of website where its webpages can be viewed and modified by anybody with a Web browser and access to the Internet. However, some wikis require community membership to edit content through site security and content control features to combat spam and vandalism. You often have the choice about what content can be updated by others when creating your wiki. For example, you may choose to create a wiki where only people you invite can update the content. You can often restrict others from even viewing your content. So, what would be the purpose in that? Remember, a wiki allows people to quickly and easily develop content without any knowledge of any Web programming language. So, if you have something that you'd like to make available on the wonderful wide world of the Web, a wiki is an easy way to do that.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, let's just think about a few applications where you might use a private wiki or a wiki where editing is restricted.


1. Create a Valentine wiki for the love of your life. Check out the Hopelessly devoted to you, Valentine site on Wetpaint to see an example.

2. Create a wedding wiki, to share the information and news about your engagement and marriage plans with your wedding guests. Tell the story of how you met and how you proposed. Post information about the wedding plans. Post helpful information about places to stay and other travel information for your wedding guests. Post your gift wish lists and locations where you are registered. Allow your guests to post thoughts about you and your fiance and to post best wishes for your new life together. A wiki is a great place for well-wishers who cannot attend your wedding to post their best wishes for you and to be included in the wedding celebration remotely, wiki-style!

3. Create a scrapbook of the life with your soulmate. Post information about your life goals. Post pics and videos of your travels. Create the list of things that you love about each other. Post favorite memories.

Although a wiki is a great place for groups to gather, hopefully today you can see where wikis can be used even if you're a group of one (expressing your devotion to your Valentine) or with a small, targeted group of special people for a very special purpose.

Image credit: Vectorials.com