
Proliferating virally, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2061135,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL112006EP20B">wiki usage has grown exponentially</A> in recent months, along with other consumer-centric technologies--including blogs, podcasts and RSS--that have made their way into the workplace thanks in part to the influx of the tech-savvy entry-level employees of so-called Generation Y. A wiki, which means "quick" in Hawaiian, is a Web site that enables users to easily edit and update shared content. Computer programmer Ward Cunningham originated the wiki concept and gave it its name more than a decade ago.