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On-line documents jointly compiled by groups such as Wikipedia.
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Content-driven sites which are editable by all participants and focus on harnessing the collective knowledge of all users.
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The Hawaiian word for quick , used to refer to a website with pages that the users can contribute and edit, often including photos, videos, and texts.
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Web-based applications that can be used for collaborative knowledge management.
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Special Web pages that can be immediately edited by any Web reader. A typical example is Wikipedia, a vast, multilingual encyclopaedia written, edited, and updated by any reader.
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Systems that use dynamic Web pages to create cumulative information contents. They allow users to the possibility of saving a very large number of versions of the same page, and to revert to a former version.
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