Open-purpose wiki typically used to for one topic (e.g. Wikipedia)
Rarely used in situations that require restricted access
Can create and edit of any number of interlinked web pages
Each instance can contain an unlimited number of topics, which in turn can contain practically anything: dialogs, images, tabular material, or forms
Has full search capability
Contains Section Editing capability for editing individual sections
Has an Edit toolbar for quick, one-click text format command insertion
Can control upload of both images and sound. Image galleries and thumbnails can be generated with relative ease
Can auto-number headings in an article (optional)
Has a subhead-based table of contents capability for long articles (optional)
Every page has a “Watch” link. Use Special:Watchlist to track changes on articles of interest; watched articles are also bolded in the Recent changes list
User contributions (in the sidebar of each user page) lists all articles the user has worked on
Each user and every article has an associated talk page where messages can be left and dialogues can occur. These are separate namespaces called "Talk:"
