History: Ideal future wiki software

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Title: Ideal wiki software
Issue: Future wiki design and features
What happened:
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


History

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Wed 14 of July, 2010 16:10 EDT ErikMoeller   5
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Thu 08 of July, 2010 06:42 EDT pbmeyer   4  v  s  
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