Comparing Wikis with Other Online Communication Tools Wikis are
toolkits for creating Web pages. Here's how a wiki differs from
other forms of Internet collaborative tools, such as e-mail,
blogs, bulletin boards, forums, content management systems, and
Web publishing systems. - Wikis are not e-mail. Individual
e-mails share some wiki properties — they are easy to create,
they can be quickly formatted, and almost anyone can create an
e-mail. And, e-mail can also be used for one-to-one or multiple
communication by sending mail to many people or by using mailing
lists. However, e-mail lacks a central place where everyone can
work at once. And e-mail also doesn't allow many authors to work
on the same page or for pages to be linked. E-mails are also
usually short whereas wiki pages can be as long as needed. -
Wikis are not blogs. A blog is a set of pages on which short
entries are posted, usually appearing in a list with the most
recent entries on top. Comments can appear attached to each
posting. RSS (really sim