History: Ideal future wiki software
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Title: Ideal wiki software
Issue: Future wiki design and features
What happened (KISS - Keep it short and simple)
- touch based ; virtual reality ; gestures ; mobile-enabled ;
- social networking ; chat facilities ; real time collab editing ; communications that look like communications
- expert-finding, maybe derived mechanically
- simul view of the communication and the page in common
- granular communication ; microblogging on this <==> knowledge management
- natural language ; speech ;
- graphical objects ; image editing
- kinzler: data & tables ; graphs ; i ask for derived statistics.
- ihile (sp?) of Graz ;
- learning from user beh in the system
- cross-wiki content ; search ; federated
- attribute each word/section to authoring user ; branch table ; branching and merging
- workflow tracking/definition
- views of past versions (wayback machine) ; smart versioning
- collaborative edit patrolling
- what's painful? tables and structured data
- scripting of interactive things
- complex semantics with changes in form/design/structure
- "content modeling"?
- Eugene!! EEKim! that's the fellow here.
- smart granular addressability — linking to a sentence, given the problematic issue of updated
- ways to invite new users into micro-projects / tasks. or to thank them for fixing things. define tasks lists more nicely.
- barnstars (awards) integrated into the system not hidden on a page somewhere. — maybe earning trust and seeing own trust score.
- a trust score or usefulness score — how much did people read a user's stuff. *** very encouraging, for some users
- smart merging
- notification of smart content on the other language wikipedias on this topic — e.g. for deep historical resarch noting many sources cited
- smart citation collection / joining
- sophisticated strict grammar and parser
- filled a page with buzzwords — didn't catch why, but maybe to exhaust them from the audience theraputically ("cathartic")
- problem: management of existing extensions. related Q: what extension systems work well? several say "WordPress"
- EEKim says JSPwiki has a "good" design and a "real" parser with a formal token-based grammar and it's not clear if there are any other wiki softwares that do
- EEKim says SocialText software has more social features, well-integrated
- Erik Moller says wikia has user pages which automatically incorporated
There is a discussion of how to quickly implement any of these.
Convener: Erik Moller and Martin Cleaver
Participants: Many, maybe twenty