History: Ideal future wiki software

Title: Ideal wiki software
Issue: Future wiki design and features
What happened (KISS - Keep it short and simple)

Brainstorming.
Many items were outlined on the board by Martin Cleaver. Photos were taken of these outlines. Here is a compressed summary by one participant.

• 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.
• learning from user behavior 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

Tangential break period, filling a page with buzzwords — didn't catch why, but maybe to exhaust them from the audience theraputically ("cathartic"), clear the air, then get back to focused specifics

• smart merging
• when viewing a wikipedia page, 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
• 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