Wikispaces

Wikispaces
Private
Industry Dot-com
Founded 2005
Headquarters San Francisco, United States
Key people
 James Byers, Adam Frey (co-founders), Dominick Bellizzi
Products Wiki hosting
Number of employees
 10
Website www.wikispaces.com

Wikispaces was a wiki hosting service based in San Francisco, California. Launched by Tangient LLC in March 2005, Wikispaces was purchased by Tes Global (formerly TSL Education) in March 2014.[1] It competes with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites (formerly JotSpot).[2] It was among the largest wiki hosts.

In September 2014, Tes announced that free hosting of non-educational wikis would cease. These wikis faced a 14 November 2014 shutdown deadline. Only wikis used exclusively in K–12 or higher education remain free.[3]

Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and educators are available for an annual fee. Wikispaces has also given away more than 100,000 premium wikis to K–12 educators.[4]

Since 2010 Wikispaces have cooperated with web 2.0 education platform Glogster EDU. Glogster EDU embeds Glogs into Wikispaces services.

Due to cost issues, classroom and free-level Wikispaces closed on July 31, 2018, while private Wikispaces are due to close on January 31, 2019.[5]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wan, Tony (March 4, 2014). "TSL Education acquires Wikispaces". EdSurge.
  2. ↑ Singel, Ryan (September 7, 2006). "Veni, vidi, wiki". Wired News. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Wikispaces is no longer offering free non-education wikis". Wikispaces. September 16, 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Terdiman, Daniel (September 15, 2008). "A quarter million teachers to get free wikis". CNET.
  5. ↑ "It's time for us to say farewell..." Wikispaces. February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.

References

  • Abramson, Larry (November 29, 2007). "Illinois School Looks to Tech Tools to Teach". Morning Edition. NPR.
  • Hagopian, Peter (September 10, 2007). "Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems". Information Week.
  • Etherington, Darrell (December 8, 2008). "3 Key Web Working Tools for Students". webworkerdaily.com.
  • "It's time for us to say farewell..." Wikispaces.com. February 12, 2018.


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