TabWiki is a wiki

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

 site devoted to the collection of sheet music

Sheet music

Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs—books, pamphlets, etc.—the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens...

 for guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 and drum

Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

s. All posts and edits are original contributions from its members. The "Tab" in the title refers to the use of tablature

Tablature

Tablature is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering rather than musical pitches....

 for the purpose of displaying musical notes for stringed instruments, such as the guitar and bass.

History

TabWiki was not the first guitar tab wiki. The first was at franciscrick.com. However, it was neither promoted nor maintained. The TabWiki concept was reincarnated at Wikicities where it was shut down by the authorities for the reason that "online tablatures are a copyright violation." The connection between these 2 tabwikis is unknown. On May 1st, 2005 a tablature

Tablature

Tablature is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering rather than musical pitches....

 module was added to wikibooks

Wikibooks

Wikibooks is a Wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit....

, however like the tab sites before TabWiki it has, to date, failed to create even a modest tablature collection. So on February 4, 2005 at 14:28 TabWiki presumably rose up to take the original tabwiki's place. Since TabWiki was created, there has been a tabwiki made in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

at tabwiki.org and tabwiki.net, however these appear to be mostly inactive.