Interesting Wiki Examples

The premier example of wiki power is wikipedia.org, a world class encyclopedia. In June 28 around 640,000 articles had been created over 4.5 years, as compared with some 70,000 to 100,000 articles in major commercial encyclopedias. By March 3, 2006, half year later, the 1 million article goal had been reached.

Other interesting wikis are emerging in many areas, but many wikis are not yet well established, with significant portions of them incomplete, trivial or lacking in useful information. Here are some of the more substantial wikis:

Education: Adult Literacy Education
Reading/Writing: WikiBooks ; WikiNews ; English 242 Romantic Writing Project
Science: species.wikipedia.org; ChemWiki
Mathematics: JReality-wiki
Multimedia: WikiCommons

Merely visiting and reading a Wiki misses what makes them unique. To understand their power you must edit them. Wiki's are not designed as a spectator sport. Don't be a couch potato; play the game. In Wikipedia.org, visit the sandbox, a special set of pages with tutorials that teach and encourage editing in Wikipedia. There are numerous similarities between wikis yet editing procedures may not be exactly the same as one moves from one wiki to the next. Look for the help features in each wiki to review basic edit procedures.

Comments with rationale about the value of other wikis are encouraged.