Why does a wiki work?
• Anyone can contribute to a wiki, but to make an impact, you need to generate relevant and factual content. • The self-organized group has an interest in keeping the content focussed on a specific topic. There is usually a strong commitment from the community contributing to a wiki which keeps it clean and relevant. • Wiki pages represent consensus because it is easy to remove wiki spam or other unsuitable content. What remains on the wiki generates new ideas by the iterative integration of multiple points of view. • Wikis provide the freedom to express thoughts, ideas and perspectives, which can then be edited, corrected or shaped into information that is relevant and useful to the community.
