Wiki provide a convenient way to create and manage miniature Web sites within BSCW. Apart from the HTML documents ("pages") that make up the content of the website, a wiki contains three special documents: the start page that is displayed when clicking on the name or icon of a wiki, the layout page that serves as the default frame for all other HTML documents of the wiki and thus ensures a consistent layout of all pages of a wiki, and finally the style definition, a style sheet that defines e.g. colors and fonts for the HTML elements used in the pages of the wiki.
In addition, wikis have their own system of elements with a
wiki-like syntax ([element ...]) that allows you to include BSCW
system functions in the pages of a wiki. Examples are the date of the last
modification of a page, links to edit a page, the display of a page's history or
even whole context menus.