“A wiki is the actual software, also commonly called wiki engine (e.g. wiki, mediawiki, wackowiki, confluence), a tool such as an unused ’swiss pocket knife’ (Döbeli Honegger). The term Wiki is referring to shared artefacts and constructions, the design and underlying principles which build the core Wiki concept, that all WikiWebs possess. A WikiWeb is a unique work environment and can be characterized by additional specific ‘utilization principles’ related to the actual software and the interests of the people using them. They are open ’swiss pocket knifes’ in the hands of the WikiWeb community in the state of doing something with it – constantly metamorphing content, extensions and core modules. Subsequently the terms will be differentiated in this way.”

Bei WikiNetzen geht es um die leichte Urbarmachung des Wissens Vieler. Es handelt sich dabei um ein Werkzeug das Chaos, welches im menschlichen Verstand – nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Natur von Sprache – herrscht, zu einer einfachen Ordnung zu transformieren.