New real estate wiki for real estate industry is launched. 

History of wikis in real estate
BiggerPockets (launched in 2006) claims to be the first real estate wiki but it unfortunately closed down in May 2007 due to lack of sufficient content.  Introduced shortly therafter, and still going strong, is InmanWiki (part of InmanNews, InmanTV and InmanBlog).  

Origins of wikisWikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki. It was started by Ward Cunningham in 1994 and was based on the name of the Honolulu International Airport shuttle called “Wiki-Wiki” … in Hawaiian that means “fast.” In the early 2000s wikis were increasingly adopted in enterprise as collaborative software. Common uses included project communication, intranets and documentation; initially for technical users. In March 2007 the word wiki was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. 

New Real Estate WikiA group of us however decided that we would like to create a freestanding real estate wiki for the industry similar to Wikipedia.  Well, after months of writing and research, data gathering and editing, we launched a beta version of Real Estate Wiki two weeks ago – all 7,000 pages of it. We even wrote some 3,500 definitions and abbreviations specific to real estate (see tab at top of RealBlogging).We fully understand that to create a really awesome, comprehensive, national real estate wiki will be a constant work in progress and will need the involvement a group of many more dedicated real estate professionals.  

For that reason I would like to personally invite all co-bloggers, avid blog readers and technology lovers to go have a look at Real Estate Wiki and become actively involved. Haven’t we all at some stage been searching for some information about an association, the meaning of an acronym, the contact details for a technology vendor, an event in real estate history, an address, and the like?  Well, now we all have a central place where we can find that information or add it for others to use in the future.  

Working together Let’s collectively grow it into an unbelievable wiki that the real estate industry can be proud of and that everyone can use. Help improve existing entries and share your knowledge and expertise by posting your own entries.  

We look forward to your contributions on Real Estate Wiki.