I first showed you the Moodle wiki way back in Chapter 2, when we saw that you could convert departmental documentation over to Moodle. Wiki is Hawaiian for "quick". People often hear the word wiki and think that a wiki has to be an online encyclopedia (for that Wikipedia has a lot to answer). But that simply isn't the case. Wikis were designed to:
Allow users to work on web pages collaboratively
Create web pages quickly (hence the name)
If you are going to collaborate with others on a web page, then there must be some sort of audit trail, so you can tell who made what change and when. That's no problem: a system for doing so is already built into Moodle's wiki system. To allow you to create web pages quickly, Moodle's wiki system has its own built-in formatting language for you to use. But don't let the thought of that put you off. As you'll see in this section, the formatting is very simple.