I have been visiting WordPress a lot these days. One of their sections intrigued me. It is called WikiWiki. Wiki was one of the words I got acquainted with some years ago when I was fishing for CGI-powered website creators. While going through these programs, I came across web collaboration softwares that called itself "Wiki." Since I was not interested in collaboration tools, I didn't pay much attention. But then I saw how a Wiki works at WordPress, and I got intrigued. Imagine an article that one starts and allows other people to add and modify to it. Strange? It isn't really.
Some time ago, one of the bloggers in a network I go to started an interactive story. She wrote the first few paragraphs and allowed others to suggest via postings how the story would go. The result was a story that lacked unity and sense, but it was fun for those who participated in the game.
Documents that are done in collaboration are not so strange. I have reminiscences of group research in high school and college where a team of students come up with a research paper. A Wiki works the same way.
I find web collaboration through a WikiWiki site or something worth a try, if only to gain some experience of the way freedom and democracy operates in such a system. Imagine the WikiPedia. Blogger has also begun incorporating Wikis in its blogs. Before long, WikiWiki, like Blogging, will become WWW-wide fad. I for one would like to be one of those who've tried it.