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Abstract
Wikis are in a sense the Web as it was always meant to be, spaces where readers can become writers or editors in an instant, and information and knowledge are shared rather than broadcast. By 2005, wikis were being hailed alongside blogs as the two emerging technologies that would spearhead the revolution to take back the Web and realize Tim Berners-Lee's original vision. In the short space of time since the publication of the first edition of the present volume, wikis (with the exception of Wikipedia) have become less prominent, with the retreat symbolized by PBwiki's renaming to PBworks. Are wikis dying, and are blogs, micro-blogs such as Twitter, and immersive environments such as Second World now leading a different kind of revolution?

We argue instead that some of wikis' distinctive features have been so widely recognized that they have been subsumed into other tools, obviating the need for a separate tool bearing the name "wiki". At the same time, services such as Wikispaces have introduced interface refinements that overcome some of the usability issues associated with traditional wikis, collaborative databases without a wiki codebase but incorporating wiki ideals have launched, and as ever Wikipedia has continued to grow. Verily, a wiki by any other name would smell as collaborative.

In this chapter, we retrace the history of wikis, survey their uses outside and inside education, discuss collective and collaborative processes based around wikis, and offer some tips based on our own experiences using wikis for research and in tertiary education.

Contributors
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 * **Family names** || **Given names** ||
 * Lavin || Richard S. ||
 * Beaufait || Paul A. ||
 * Tomei || Joseph ||

Outline

 * ===Defining wikis===
 * ===Wikis at large===
 * ===Wikis in education===
 * ===Wiki processes===
 * ===Are wikis collaborative?===
 * ===Wikis past===
 * ===Wikis present===
 * ===Wikis future===

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