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A wiki, in its most unrestrictive form, lets visitors to a site edit, add content, and create new pages for new topics. The most widely used wiki of this sort is Wikipedia. But wikis can also be used as content management systems, that is, as the means to organize and deliver the content of a web site to its visitors. It's in this way that mbvan.org uses DokuWiki. Many wikis stand somewhere in between the unrestricted formats such as Wikipedia and Content Management Systems. Cityscapes, a project of my own, is something like this.
There is an underlying philosophy to wikis: they enable communities, and for this reason alone it seemed appropriate to set the new incarnation of mbvan.org inside a wiki. It was originally a community, it is still rooted in community, and the wiki form gives it the potential to implement future community features.
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