You must be regular visitor of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. It has got huge collection of articles on almost all the topics. Anyone can edit or update wikipedia contribute articles, photos and videos. Since many people can contribute to a wiki website, the content of the website normally grows quickly as a result of frequent collaboration. In my opinion, wiki websites are ideal for groups of people who are connected by a common interest or bond and need to collaborate on an issue of importance. For example, suppose you are member of a group of 8 people on some online project and you need to send each other some information and updates regarding the project, then in this case you can use a wiki website which all the members can update. So now I am going to tell how you can make a wiki website. There are two options, the first option is to use your server, wiki script (like mediawiki which wikipedia uses), database etc. You can call this as self-hosted wiki which is analogous to self-hosted blog. The other option is very simple, you can have your wiki in just 2 to 3 minutes depeding upon your internet connection speed

Today I will only talk about the second option, that is, making a wiki website in 2 minutes. Just like you use blogger.com for making a blog, you can use the services of wetpaint.com for making a free wiki. Creating a Wetpaint wiki is very simple, anyone can start a free wiki website and can share with their family, friends, and colleagues. Time Magazine has rated wetpaint as the top 50 websites of the world for the year 2007. According to Time,

“Wetpaint makes it super easy for non-techie people to create a Wiki or contribute to one. Even companies are using it: Food & Wine magazine has a Wetpaint Wiki; CBS started one for CSI fans and T-Mobile created one for the Sidekick.”

Some of the salient features of wetpaint wikis are ::

• You can make your wiki private or public. If you don’t want to be edited by others make it private.
• There are variety of Pre-Populated Templates for Classrooms, Group Projects, Groups of Friends, Sports Teams, Book Clubs, Weddings etc.
• Building wiki is very simple due to Click-and-Type Page Editing, Easy Photo/Video Integration, Customizable Page Templates, Spell Check, Cross-browser Consistency etc.
• RSS updates for new pages, recently updated pages,recent comments etc.
• You can also use web analytics services like google analytics, sitemeter to track the visitors of your wiki.
• You can increase the popularity of your wiki through invite other features of wetpaint, address book, messaging services.
• Watch out some of the great wiki websites.

So if you want to show your interests, passions and hobbies online and want to collaborate, join wetpaint today.