A wiki is a website that can be easily edited. This simple concept bears a number of implications that make wikis ideal tools for collaborative work. In Mindquarry, a wiki page can be edited by every team member, making the wiki the ideal place for the team to
The question of easy editability is manifold. On the one hand it means relaxed edting permissions, for example on the Wikipedia wiki everyone can edit nearly any page without prior registration. This lowers the barrier of contribution and catches more information in the wiki. Secondly wikis have no edit-review-publish cycle, the review occurs after the publication by the readers. Again, this lowers the barrier of contributing information, as a contributor does not have to wait for editorial approval and a reader who finds an error can easily fix the error on its own.
Thirdly, easy editing means high usability of the wiki. Traditional wiki software tried to achieve usability by using a simplified markup language for formatting, called wiki syntax and a naming convention for creating links, called WikiWords.
Mindquarry takes a different approach: With the Mindquarry Wiki there is purely visual editing (WYSIWYG, What you see is what you get) and no WikiWords that obstruct the reading flow, instead a easy to use resource selector widget that allows linking every content relevant for a Mindquarry team in a wiki page.
With the relaxed permission management and easy editing, wikis are optimal tools for creative knowledge workers, for brainstorming, whiteboarding and free form collaboration.