Internet

=== Collaborative publishing ===
[[Wiki]]s have also been used in the academic community for sharing and dissemination of information across institutional and international boundaries.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1142215.1142259|title=New Interfaces For Musical Expression|isbn=978-2-84426-314-8|author1=MM Wanderley |author2=D Birnbaum |author3=J Malloch |year=2006|publisher=IRCAM – Centre Pompidou|page=180}}</ref> In those settings, they have been found useful for collaboration on [[grant writing]], [[strategic planning]], departmental documentation, and committee work.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Putting Wikis to Work in Libraries|author=Nancy T. Lombardo|s2cid=11552140|volume=27|issue=2|date=June 2008|journal=Medical Reference Services Quarterly|pages=129–145|doi=10.1080/02763860802114223|pmid=18844087}}</ref> The [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] uses a wiki to allow the public to collaborate on finding [[prior art]] relevant to examination of pending patent applications. [[Queens]], New York has used a wiki to allow citizens to collaborate on the design and planning of a local park.<ref name="Noveck">{{cite journal|title=Wikipedia and the Future of Legal Education |author=Noveck, Beth Simone |journal=Journal of Legal Education |volume=57 |issue=1 |url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/jled57&div=8&id=&page= |date=March 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703005842/http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals%2Fjled57&div=8&id=&page= |archive-date=3 July 2014 }}{{subscription required}}</ref> The [[English Wikipedia]] has the largest user base among wikis on the World Wide Web<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php?sort=users_desc&th=8000&lines=500 |title=WikiStats by S23 |access-date=7 April 2007 |publisher=S23Wiki |date=3 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825164715/http://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php?sort=users_desc&th=8000&lines=500 |archive-date=25 August 2014}}</ref> and ranks in the top 10 among all sites in terms of traffic.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/topsites |title=Alexa Web Search – Top 500 |access-date=2 March 2015 |publisher=[[Alexa Internet]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302173920/http://www.alexa.com/topsites |archive-date=2 March 2015 }}</ref>