''Wiki Techniques '' Wiki has a combination of Unique and Common Techniques which make it an effective IdeaSpace. Where Ideas, Opinions, Proposals, Pet Notions and Theories, and even a Sandbox for playing exist. It is a peer monitored and maintained space which is a microcosm of the space of which it is a part -- the Internet. Certain Techniques and features are part of wiki. Wiki can be said to be both a collection of pages and an experience. Using the same identifier: '''Wiki'''. ---- Here is a list of some of the useful techniques and features of a Wiki: '''Pages''' * Easily created and maintained spaces which use the accessor of a Browser to View and Modify them. * Naming mechanism which gives each page a unique WikiWord name which serves as a link as well '''Links''' * AutomaticLinking -- Linking by using WikiWord''''''s to related or referenced ideas * BackLink''''''s -- Discovery by the WikiEngine of pages linking to the present page * WantedPages -- Distiguishing between Links to pages which exist and to links to pages that do not. '''Grouping''' * By Users ** User Prepared lists and links ** Categories and Topics ** Patterns ** RoadMaps * By Wiki ** RecentChanges ** RecentEdits ** F''''''indPage Search ** LikePages ** V''''''isualTour '''H''''''omePages''' * Participants ** Authors and Refactorers ** Readers ** Refactorers * Non-Participants ** Authors ** Significant Computer People ** Historically Significant People