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Wiki
As more and more softwares are coming up it is helping the users to link the web pages in various ways. Wiki is one of the popular softwares which helps the users to link, create and edit the web pages. Collaborative websites are created by the use of Wiki. This server software has a simple text syntax and supports hyperlinks. The text syntax helps in creating pages. This software is installed by the business organizations to provide good Intranets for knowledge management. One of the most well known Wiki is wikipedia. One of the important characteristics of Wiki is that the documents are written collaboratively. All the pages in the Wiki are interconnected by hyperlinks. In Wiki it is very easy to create a page. Some of the contents in Wiki are available for alteration. If you want to alter a content you can do it without using the register user account.
The formatting of Wiki pages are done in a simple language so that all types of users can understand it. The easy way of creating pages on the net is through Wiki. Some of the private Wiki servers require user ID to read and edit the pages. The structure of the Wiki pages are specified in a simplifies language.

The usage of Wiki is growing day by day. By limiting the access to Cascading Style Sheets the users of the Wiki will not be able to format the pages of Wiki and nor they can structure the content. When you look into the pages of Wiki you can find that there are numerous hypertext links to numerous other pages. The users of this application can also create table of content pages. This can be created in a hierarchical categorization. Sometimes this creates a difficulty o maintain as so many authors delete and create pages. This system of application provides many ways to categorize and organize the tag pages. Many of the Wiki have a wonderful feature like backline feature. This helps the user to see that which pages are link to other pages. One of the most typical things to see in Wiki is that one can make a link to the pages which do not even exist. In this way it invites the users to share there knowledge on a new subject in Wiki. Not many people know that how links are created in Wiki by using specific links. Many of the

Wiki applications use CamelCase to create links and name pages. The words which are used as links are written in capitalized words. The use of CamelCase makes the linking very easy. Most of the Wiki contain a title search. It is the database of the application which determines the scalability of the search. Wiki is designed in such a way so that it can be edited easily. Wiki has a open philosophy of making correction in the pages. Editing does not mean that who ever is editing is a good editor in this case vandalism becomes a problem.