Wiki engine

Any wiki engine (hereinafter, the Engine) is software that is designed to support collaborative creation, storage, and usage of hyper-linked documents. The Engine that is ready to be installed is called wiki software; the Engine that is installed and runs is called a wiki application.

produce allows users to create and collaboratively edit "pages" or entries via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web application that runs on one or more web servers. The content, including all current and previous revisions, is usually stored in either a file system or a database. Wikis are a type of web content management system, and the most commonly supported off-the-shelf software that web hosting facilities offer. There are currently dozens of actively maintained wiki engines, in a variety of programming languages, including both open source and proprietary applications. These vary widely in their platform support, in their support for natural language characters and conventions, and in their assumptions about technical versus social control of editing.

is either some bundle of computer data and programs that makes the computer produce specified results or a digital construct that can be installed, instantiated and executed on a computing device, specifically for the purpose of assisting in the capture, creation, manipulation, tracking, management, and reporting of specified data. The digital construct also known as a computer application. The difference between the two is that some bundle of computer data and programs is not necessarily installed, instantiated and operational, whereas an application is installed, instantiated and operational as in the application of that bundle.