Prevalence

**How prevalent are wikis?**
[|Wikipedia] is the first large-scale wiki to evolve.

[|Curriki]

Wikis used in business from [|Information Week]:


 * Nokia has been using Socialtext wiki software for a year and a half to facilitate information exchange within its Insight & Foresight group.
 * Yahoo uses Twiki software to help its development team overcome the problems associated with working from a variety of separate locations.
 * [|Michelin China also uses Twiki] as a knowledge management tool. Jean-Noel Simonnet, from the company's IT department, writes, "Our purpose was to share ALL the information, procedures, setup documents, so that we were less dependent on a particular staff member's knowledge, so that nobody in the team has any document left in a personal directory."
 * Kodak, Cingular, Disney, Motorola, and SAP are also among the notable companies with [|wiki success stories].

[|Disaster coordination] - [|MN Bridge Collapse wiki]

[|One Laptop Per Child Wiki] - Designed to support philanthropic laptop initiative

[|Wikibooks] - a collection of textbooks being collaboratively created