The last week has seen me up to my ears in wikis… Now I know more about MediaWiki, Socialtext, Confluence, DekiWiki and Near Time than is strictly healthy.
Archive for October, 2007
TuttiWiki
October 26, 2007Weblistic moves up a gear
October 20, 2007Great to see Dick Larkin and the team at Weblistic doing so well. I was particularly taken with this graph on their website:
Q+A builds the semantic wiki
October 20, 2007Markus Krötzsch and the semantic wiki team at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods at Karlsruhe University have set up an interesting way to capture and enhance the information in Wikipedia.
They have developed some “clever” tools that analyse pages in Wikipedia and are able to formulate a series of questions that are presented to users. For example:
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If you don’t know the answer then you simply follow the link to the appropriate page, or Google for it and see if you can find the answer.
It clearly needs to be contextual – better to ask questions about content that a user is engaged in rather than asking random questions – but I am sure that is in the pipeline.
All that is needed is some sort of MTurk system that rewards or recognises activity or (better) some social pressure to contribute an answer whenever you use Wikipedia.
It is being tested here: http://test.ontoworld.org/
BT FON
October 4, 2007BT and Fon have done a deal.
Breaking news: http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/general/btfon041007.htm
Facebook wiki
October 2, 2007I just found a really neat facebook app called Monowiki. It allows anyone with a facebook account to create a wiki.
The only things it really needs is a system for creating categories (i.e. adding tags to pages)… I love it! and I am going to move Batan City over to it ASAP.
