Wiki Concept

From Rhondda Cynon Taff Wiki

Wiki differs from a traditional website in a way that it is built around ‘many-to-many’ principle rather than ‘one-to-many’. The main disadvantage of traditional website is that, there are generally large numbers of users, but content is created only by few people and hence the depth and breadth of content become a limiting factor. For instance, In terms of content, Wikipedia has fifteen times more number of article as the next largest English-language encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia artciles are as accurate as Enclyopedia Britanica as found out by Natures Magazine.

Another great example is how New Zealand police department which used a wiki platform to draft their new law.

There have been numerous studies which has highlighted the fact that collaborative thinking is far superior to individual thinking. For instance James Surowiecki in his book “The Wisdom of Crowd” has explains Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. In one instance he said that "Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them." A wiki provides the perfect platform for collaboration.