On the Internet you can share everything you want, and that includes knowledge. Would you like to have your own Wikipedia? Is easier than it looks like.
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited internet portal in the world, behind the Google and Baidu search engines, the Facebook social network and the YouTube video portal.
What makes Wikipedia so popular ? It is very complete, it grows every day, it is nourished by the knowledge of hundreds of people from all over the world, it is free and it is in practically all languages (295 to be exact). It saw the light in 2001 and since then it has become the main source of consultation for students and teachers.
One of the pillars that Wikipedia has made what it is is its technical structure , what we call wiki. From the Hawaiian wiki (fast), a wiki is (according to Wikipedia itself) "a site whose pages can be edited directly from the browser , where users create, modify or delete content that, generally, they share".
In short, the wiki allows you to create a team page easily, without requiring advanced technical knowledge. In addition, that page grows and adapts to our needs also with relative ease.
Creating a wiki can be very practical for any area : for your department or company, for your class, for your school, institute or university, for your football or basketball team, for your reading club or to share with the worldall that You know about video games, your favorite literary saga or your favorite film director, to name a few examples.
Let's see some services available on the network that will help you find and create a wiki in a short time and comfortably, so you only have to worry about the content you want to include and with whom you are going to collaborate.
Wikia
From Wikia we have spoken before, in particular when I recommended some alternatives to Wikipedia for queries .
Currently, Wikia is better known as Fandom and offers the possibility of creating a wiki to talk about video games, books, movies ... In short, any hobby or hobby that you are passionate about.
Creating a wiki with Wikia is very easy, it allows you to customize the pages in detail and any content you want to include has a place in your wiki: text, images, videos ...
Also, if you want the wiki to be public, it will be visible from Google and other search engines as well as from the Wikia / Fandom search engine itself.
Wikidot
If you are looking for a more professional option, Wikidot has several types of user accounts, free or paid, to cover all fronts: personal wiki, public wiki, private wiki, for companies, for educational entities ...
Like Wikia, Wikidot does not require knowledge of HTML, PHP or JavaScript. Your editor is designed to fill out forms and press buttons, without the need to write code or install anything.
The free account allows you to create up to 5 different sites of 300MB each. As in any wiki, you can customize the design of the pages and content modules that you want to place in each of them.
Torchpad
Its leaders consider it "the simplest way to create a Markdown wiki". Its name is Torchpad and it will allow you to design your own Wikipedia for any type of content easily.
As for the Markdown , it is a simpler and more agile way to format a text. Once you've tried it, there's no going back.
Leaving the edition of texts aside, Torchpad is also very practical in the design of the wiki, connecting pages to each other. In addition, it facilitates teamwork to write pages between two or more people.
PBWorks
Another professional option, similar to Wikidot, is PBWorks , which offers several page hosting services, among which the wiki stands out.
Through a free or paid account, you can design your own wiki for personal use, for your company or for your educational center.
Among its features, it supports all types of content (text, files, images), is accessible from any desktop or mobile platform, facilitates group work and does not require technical knowledge.
The free account supports up to 15 internal and 5 external users, create 5 wikis and 50MB of available space.
MediaWiki
The four examples I have recommended are designed to create a wiki and have it online in a matter of minutes. Easy, fast and comfortable.
But maybe you want to save your own wiki on an external server or your property. In that case, there is a lot of software but the original is the one that MediaWiki offers .
If you want to use the content manager that uses Wikipedia, from MediaWiki you can download it and install it in your own space or server. Of course, you will need some technical knowledge , although it has instructions and some hosting services automate the task for you.
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