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wikis  

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  • Wikis have become important information-gathering and collaboration-building tools. Coined in the mid-1990s by Ward Cunningham, the term wiki means an Internet composition system or database space designed to function as a repository of written information that can be viewed and edited by anyone who has access. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; Wiki]

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