This year marks the tenth anniversary of the first Wiki website -- the even-you-can-edit-this-page collaboration software behind the Wikipedia encyclopedia.

I've mentioned contributing to Wikipedia, but not the increasing interest in using Wiki software for within organizations -- including newspapers and magazines, a recent topic on the online-news mailing list. The technology news weekly, InfoWorld, is one early adopter, as Jon Udell mentions in his blog and article, Year of the enterprise Wiki. Here's an excerpt:

Flexible, direct, lightweight, and requiring only a Web browser to use, Wikis suit a wide range of applications. There are Wiki implementations for a dozen programming languages and content management systems. Wikipedia, the collaborative encyclopedia project that began in 2001, reached critical mass in 2004. Wikipedia milestones this year included the millionth article, the 30,000th contributor, and an explosion of press coverage.
 [Full story at InfoWorld.com] Weblog: [Jon's Radio]

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