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Wiki, a Shared Blog for the Corporate World

Writable webs empower people to share knowledge effectively and to be more productive

• Wiki, a Blog (Weblog) for groups: Communities can organize and share content in an organic and free manner
• If extended with the right set of functionality, a Wiki can be applied to corporate groups to schedule, manage, document, and support their daily activities

Conference talk at VCWI 2005 IT Seminar in Eindhoven, Sept 2005BR 胡军, Jun Hu BR MailTo(j.hu@tue.nl)BR Slides available from [http://id00243.id.tue.nl/JunHu/WikiYourWeb]

What is a Wiki?

• WikiWikiWeb = Writable Web

  • As quick to contribute as e-mail
  • As easy to use as a website

• WardCunningham implemented the original WikiWikiWeb in 1995 to collaborate on software patterns

• Inspired by HyperCard; some call it a Blog for groups

• Wiki design principles:

  Open

  Should a page be found to be incomplete or poorly organized, any reader can edit it as they see fit

  Incremental

  Pages can cite other pages, including pages that have not been written yet

  Organic

  The structure and text content of the site is open to editing and evolution

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