Contribute to Wikipedia's online encyclopaedia

Even in the land of the internet, 'wiki' sounds like a pretty strange and geeky thing. In fact it's one of the most innovative and successful concepts of recent times.

Essentially wiki is a prefix applied to software that anyone can use and modify for free. Its most famous incarnation is the Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia which at the time of writing has about 1.2 million articles contributed in English – articles that anyone can edit.

In the Workshops section Computeractive issue 225 we explore Wikipedia features like correcting a simple mistake in an entry that’s already there, adding an original photograph and assigning usage rights, adding new text to an entry, linking to an existing Wikipedia entry and linking articles to other websites.

So, refer to the magazine and then click to be transferred to the Wikipedia home page.