While community sites and wikis are not technologies in the same vein that HTML is, they do represent a unique set of functions that many enterprises and corporate sites are adding to their web sites.
Community site functions include blogging, forums, media galleries, user profiles, and special interest groups. In a typical scenario, an enterprise may license a turn-key community site, such as Community Server from Telligent, and extensively modify the licensed software to conform to the look and feel of their corporate web site. While the licensed code may be well tested, these modifications open up the possibility for significant bugs in the deployed community site.
Wikis are another functional module that enterprises and consumer web sites can license to add collaboration to their web sites. Perhaps the best known wiki is Wikipedia, which allows anyone to contribute to encyclopedia topics and revert to previous versions with the click of a mouse. Enterprises are deploying wikis from companies like Mindtouch to allow work groups and project teams to collectively contribute to a body of knowledge. As with community sites, the deployment model typically includes extensive customization, necessitating careful testing.
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