Home Random Nearby Log in Settings About Wikipedia Disclaimers Open main menu Search Wiki Read in another language Download PDF Watch this page Edit This article is about the type of website. For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation) . Play media Interview with Ward Cunningham , inventor of the wiki A wiki ( / ˈ w ɪ k i / ( listen ) WIK -ee ) is a knowledge base website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser . In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor . [1] A wiki is run using wiki software , otherwise known as a wiki engine. A wiki engine is a type of content management system , but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software , in that the content is crea...