Bio & Web - IT: Growth and Prospects

Wikis have lot of advantages to offer. Typical of them are listed below:

• collaborative authoring

• Easy editing - articles can edited at anytime by anyone

• Easy citing and sourcing

• Name of article is part of the hyperlink

• Editing is done via a web browser 

• Office Documents

• Server storage of documents

• Automatic Versioning and Difference Engines for documents

• Search facilities

• Automatic links to discussion pages 

• Most recent editions very visible; easy monitoring

• Massively distributable collaboration

• Groups and Categories

• Easy links to multi-language documentation