In celebration of the 50th running of the Daytona 500 today, I cannot resist to drop the green flag and encourage you to GO and "Start your wikis" today!Now you know that 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. Perhaps you want to check wikis out, but you may not be ready to create your own site yet. You might be a bit hesitant to jump in and get your feet wet on the world wide web immediately. Wikis allow people to be involved in several different roles. There are readers of wikis -- those who just visit the site and read the content that is posted by others. There are visitors who find a site of interest and join its community. Community members often have the opportunity to receive and send messages to other members and request notices (or page watches) for changes to pages or articles of interest. Some readers and community members become discussers by posting comments or starting discussion threads about topics posted on the site. Then there are the editors, those who update existing content, revising the text to make corrections or to improve it. There are community members who create new pages or add content to existing pages. Then there are the moderators and administrators which help the creator to manage the site.
Today, I encourage you to jump right in -- go for it. Start small if you like though. Find a wiki on a topic that interests you and start by becoming a community member. Pick out an existing wiki today and give it a try. Post a comment or send me a message and tell me about your experience. Give it a try --- before you know it, you may be a Wiki-Man as described in the below music video!
As posted on YouTube by VeryTasteful
Image credit: SteveParkWeb on Geocities, 1999
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