bliki

Bliki is a portmanteau of blog and wiki used to describe a type of web content that combines the time-stamped, author-attribution style of a blog with the collaborative editing, interlinking, and revision history of a wiki. A bliki consists of pages that can be written as posts and simultaneously edited by multiple users. Each page preserves a history of changes, enabling revision control and transparency in authorship while preserving a navigable structure through internal links and categories.

Origins and use: The term arose in the early 2000s in discussions of online knowledge management as people looked for lightweight systems to capture evolving ideas and documentation. Blikis are commonly used for personal knowledge bases, team documentation, and living glossaries where information is expected to be refined over time rather than kept as a static article.

Key features typically include: editable pages with revision history; the ability to create and follow links between pages; tagging or categorization; a simple access-control model; and sometimes embedded discussion or comments on pages.

Advantages include a low barrier to collaborative editing, a single coherent place for notes and documentation, and the ability to track how information evolves. Drawbacks can include governance challenges, potential inconsistency if edits are not coordinated, and overhead from managing revisions and permissions.

See also: wiki, blog, content management systems, knowledge management.