Wikis provide a basis for many applications in the area of collaborative work and have become a serious alternative to expensive content management systems. In this book, the authors explore wiki philosophy and functions, and explain basic controls and components. The book includes a step-by-step guide to the installation and configuration of the wiki-clones MediaWiki, TWiki and Confluence, along with a realistic tutorial based on collaborative planning for a conference.

Preface to the Second Edition.- Wiki: The Wiki Concept.- The Installation.- First Steps.- The Core Functions of MediaWiki.- Formatting.- Multi-Page Structures.- Components: the Function Pages.- Administration.- Life in MediaWiki.- TWiki, the Jack of all Trades: Installing TWiki.- Working with TWiki.- Formatting in TWiki.- Searching in TWiki.- User Permissions in TWiki.- Administering TWiki.- Designing a TWiki.- TWiki as a Project Kit: Preliminary Thoughts: What is a Project.- Conceptual Phase: Collecting Ideas and Outlining the Project.- Composing the Project Plan.- Preparing for Your Event.- Executing and Documenting an Event.- Tools with a Future: Technical Challenges.- Some Wiki Projects.- How to Seed a Wiki.- Social Perspectives.- A. Installations in TWiki.- Glossary.- Bibliography.

Anja Ebersbach is an information scientist. She is a university and technical college instructor, and is also active as a freelance IT trainer. She is working on her dissertation on the topic of "Wikis as Tools of Scientific Work."
Markus Glaser, also an information scientist, primarily works as a web and application programmer, where he specializes in MediaWiki and TWiki systems.
Dr. Richard Heigl, a historian, works as a freelance instructor, IT trainer and moderator of large group seminars. He is primarily occupied with the planning and moderation of wiki projects.
Alexander Warta, information scientist, is a doctoral candidate employed at Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart. He is a specialist for the wiki software Confluence.