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I really enjoyed the wiki presentation and learned a number of things that I never knew before. 

1. Wiki for me has always been associated with wikipedia and nothing else, a way to search and gather information on a certain subject.  I never knew the various uses of wiki's such as meeting agendas, collaborative spaces, internal blogs, compact focus groups, documentation, a collection of action items, and they can be focused on an existing group.

2.  I found it very interesting that Wikipedia is 7 times larger than the Encyclopedia Britannica

3. Wiki's seek to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration

4.  Wiki's promote topic associations between different pages by making links available to that page or showing whether that page exists or not. (blue words indicate a page that exists where as red words indicate a page that does not exist yet, but can be created.)

 5. Wiki-Wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki website using only a plain-vanilla web browser.

6.  I've always known wikipedia as a site that can be altered by anyone, but I was unaware of the "locks" that wikipedia has for certain pages.  Different types of locks allow only certain individuals to edit the respected page.

7.  Prior to the development of wiki's was hypercard which was developed on macs, but not used through a network it was oriented for a single computer.  Though it used hyper text and linked together pages much like wikipedia does now.