==Characteristics==Ward Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book "The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web", described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:* A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons.
Ward Cunningham, razvijalec prvega wikiprogramja, imenovanega WikiWikiWeb, je wiki prvotno opisal kot »najpreprostejšo spletno podatkovno zbirko, ki bi še lahko delovala«.