2007

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This is a list of 4 events celebrated and 181 publications published in 2007.

Events

Name	City	Country	DateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
RecentChangesCamp 2007	Portland	United States	2 February 2007
RoCoCoCamp 2007	Montreal	Canada	18 May 2007
WikiSym 2007	Montreal	Canada	21 October 2007
Wikimania 2007	Taipei	Republic of China	3 August 2007

Publications

Title	Author(s)	Keyword(s)	Published in	Language	Abstract	R	C
A Bag-of-Words Based Ranking Method for the Wikipedia Question Answering Task	Davide Buscaldi Paolo Rosso		Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval	English	This paper presents a simple approach to the Wikipedia Question Answering pilot task in CLEF 2006. The approach ranks the snippets, retrieved using the Lucene search engine, by means of a similarity measure based on bags of words extracted from both the snippets and the articles in wikipedia. Our participation was in the monolingual English and Spanish tasks. We obtained the best results in the Spanish one.	0	0
A Framework for Studying the Use of Wikis in Knowledge Work Using Client-Side Access Data	Uri Dekel		WikiSym	English	While measurements of wiki usage typically focus on the active contribution of content, information on the passive use of existing content can be valuable for a range of commercial and research purposes. In particular, such data is necessary for reconstructing the context or tracing the flow of information in settings where wikis are used as collaboration platforms in knowledge work that relies on specialized tools, such as software development. Meeting these needs requires detailed knowledge of user behavior, such as the duration for which a page was read and the sections visible at each point. This data cannot be collected by present wiki implementations and must be collected from the client-side, which presents a range of technical and privacy problems. In addition, this data must be correlated with traces of interaction with other tools. In this paper we present an approach for solving these problems in which scripts embedded by the wiki server are executed by the client browser, and report on the user’s interaction with that document along with relevant structural information. These reports are relayed to a comprehensive framework for storing and accessing interaction and context data from the wiki and from additional tools used in knowledge work. This framework can be used to correlate these traces to obtain a complete view of the user’s work across tools, or to approximate his context at specific points in time.	0	0
A comparison of methods for the automatic identification of locations in Wikipedia	Davide Buscaldi Paolo Rosso			English	In this paper we compare two methods for the automatic identification of geographical articles in encyclopedic resources such as Wikipedia. The methods are a WordNet-based method that uses a set of keywords related to geographical places, and a multinomial Naïve Bayes classificator, trained over a randomly selected subset of the English Wikipedia. This task may be included into the broader task of Named Entity classification, a well-known problem in the field of Natural Language Processing. The experiments were carried out considering both the full text of the articles and only the definition of the entity being described in the article. The obtained results show that the information contained in the page templates and the category labels is more useful than the text of the articles.	0	0
A comparison of optimistic approaches to collaborative editing of Wiki pages	C.-L. Ignat G. Oster P. Molli M. Cart J. Ferrie A.-M. Kermarrec P. Sutra M. Shapiro L. Benmouffok J.-M. Busca R. Guerraoui		COLCOM	English		0	0
A content-driven reputation system for the Wikipedia	B. Thomas Adler Luca de Alfaro			English	We present a content-driven reputation system for Wikipedia authors. In our system, authors gain reputation when the edits they perform to Wikipedia articles are preserved by subsequent authors, and they lose reputation when their edits are rolled back or undone in short order. Thus, author reputation is computed solely on the basis of content evolution; user-to-user comments or ratings are not used. The author reputation we compute could be used to flag new contributions from low-reputation authors, or it could be used to allow only authors with high reputation to contribute to controversialor critical pages. A reputation system for the Wikipedia could also provide an incentive for high-quality contributions. We have implemented the proposed system, and we have used it to analyze the entire Italian and French Wikipedias, consisting of a total of 691,551 pages and 5,587,523 revisions. Our results show that our notion of reputation has good predictive value: changes performed by low-reputation authors have a significantly larger than average probability of having poor quality, as judged by human observers, and of being later undone, as measured by our algorithms.	0	9
A decentralized wiki engine for collaborative Wikipedia hosting	Guido Urdaneta Guillaume Pierre Maarten van Steen	Wiki P2P Collaborative web hosting Decentralized	WEBIST ’07: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies	English	This paper presents the design of a decentralized system for hosting large-scale wiki web sites likeWikipedia, using a collaborative approach. Our design focuses on distributing the pages that compose the wiki across a network of nodes provided by individuals and organizations willing to collaborate in hosting the wiki. We present algorithms for placing the pages so that the capacity of the nodes is not exceeded and the load is balanced, and algorithms for routing client requests to the appropriate nodes. We also address fault tolerance and security issues.	1	0
A knowledge-based search engine powered by Wikipedia	David N. Milne Ian H. Witten David M. Nichols			English	This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of both queries and documents. This allows it to (a) expand queries automatically and (b) help guide the user as they evolve their queries interactively. Its understanding is mined from the vast investment of manual effort and judgment that is Wikipedia. We show how this open, constantly evolving encyclopedia can yield inexpensive knowledge structures that are specifically tailored to expose the topics, terminology and semantics of individual document collections. We conducted a detailed user study with 12 participants and 10 topics from the 2005 TREC HARD track, and found that Koru and its underlying knowledge base offers significant advantages over traditional keyword search. It was capable of lending assistance to almost every query issued to it; making their entry more efficient, improving the relevance of the documents they return, and narrowing the gap between expert and novice seekers.	0	1
A participação do público no Wikinews e no Kuro5hin	Marcelo Ruschel Träsel	Journalism Online Journalism Grassroots Content Analysis Interaction	E-Compós	Portuguese	This paper presents the results of a mastership research focused on the interventions of collaborators over journalistic material published in the grassroots news sites Wikinews and Kuro5hin. A sample of ten texts was collected over seven weeks, in order to form a corpus of interventions. This corpus was later submitted to a content analysis, aimed in verifying if the interventions had a predominant pluralizing character. The results show that indeed the interventions are for the most part pluralizing, suggesting that grassroots journalism may bring important contributions to a democratic society.	2	1
A theoretical framework of collaborative knowledge building with wikis: a systemic and cognitive perspective	Ulrike Cress Joachim Kimmerle		CSCL	English		0	0
Agile elicitation of semantic goals by wiki	David Lambert Stefania Galizia John Domingue		WISE	English		0	0
An API for measuring the relatedness of words in Wikipedia	Simone Paolo Ponzetto Michael Strube		ACL	English		0	1
An EBNF grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0	Martin Junghans Dirk Riehle Rama Gurram Matthias Kaiser Mário Lopes Umit Yalcinalp		SIGWEB Newsl.	English		0	0
An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0	Martin Junghans Dirk Riehle Umit Yalcinalp		SIGWEB Newsl.	English		0	0
An experimental CALL system enhanced with wiki			Proceedings - The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2007	English		0	0
An investigation of the use of a wiki to support knowledge exchange in public health	R. Giordano			English	This paper describes the use of a wiki to foster joint learning among a group of non-profit, community-based organizations involved with improving public health in London. The goal of the wiki was to encourage the growth of a community of practice-clear patterns of mutual engagement, joint enterprise and an emergent and shared repertoire of action-among these organizations. Participants reported that they failed to contribute to the wiki largely for economic reasons, issues of identity, and a lack of group norms. A critical factor in its failure, however, was the lack of its integration into existing work practices and project governance.	0	0
Analyzing and visualizing the semantic coverage of Wikipedia and its authors	Todd Holloway Miran Bozicevic Katy Börner		Complexity	English	This article presents a novel analysis and visualization of English Wikipedia data. Our specific interest is the analysis of basic statistics, the identification of the semantic structure and the age of the categories in this free online encyclopedia, and the content coverage of its highly productive authors.	0	5
AniAniWeb: A Wiki Approach to Personal Home Pages	Jochen Rick		WikiSym	English	This article reports on my dissertation research on personal home pages. It focuses on the design of AniAniWeb, a server-based system for authoring personal home pages. AniAniWeb builds on a wiki foundation to address many of the limitations of static technologies used to author personal home pages. This article motivates the technical hypotheses behind AniAniWeb and reflects on these hypotheses, based on a two year study of adopters using AniAniWeb in academia, a prominent vocational setting where personal home pages are important. In particular, I reflect on two broad categories: 1) the usefulness of wiki features (wiki authoring, wiki mark-up, and interaction / collaboration) to authoring personal home pages; 2) the other features (structure, designing looks, and access control) needed to make a wiki approach to personal home pages viable.	0	0
Análise do verbete da Wikipédia sob a ótica da teoria de gênero como ação social	Vanessa Wendhausen Lima	Wikipedia Entry Genre Social Action		Portuguese	This study aims to analyze the Wikipedia entry. The analysis is based upon the theory of genre as a social action as proposed by Miller (1994a) and her follower Bazerman (1994). These authors state that the notion of genre is a typified social action that functions as a reply to recurrent situations. Methodological proposals for the study of the Wikipedia entry composition process are given by Paré and Smart (1994). They believe that a genre analysis based on Miller‟s theory should identify which elements are observable besides textual ones and which is the relationship between them. Therefore, the analysis of the textual elements was based on the rhetorical movements, the compositional aspects of the entry, the text format, and the social roles of the writers. This study reveals that the Wikipedia entry is a digital genre resulting from a social act which involves the whole free encyclopedia. It took this form because of the recurrence and text typifying through the rules that regulate the free encyclopedia process of writing.	2	0
Automatising the learning of lexical patterns: An application to the enrichment of WordNet by extracting semantic relationships from Wikipedia	Maria Ruiz-Casado Enrique Alfonseca Pablo Castells	Information extraction Lexical patterns Ontology and thesaurus acquisition Relation extraction	Data Knowl. Eng.	English		0	0
Autonomously semantifying Wikipedia	Fei Wu Daniel S. Weld			English	Berners-Lee's compelling vision of a Semantic Web is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a bootstrapping method - creating enough structured data to motivate the development of applications. This paper argues that autonomously "Semantifying Wikipedia" is the best way to solve the problem. We choose Wikipedia as an initial data source, because it is comprehensive, not too large, high-quality, and contains enough manually-derived structure to bootstrap an autonomous, self-supervised process. We identify several types of structures which can be automatically enhanced in Wikipedia (e.g., link structure, taxonomic data, infoboxes, etc.), and we describea prototype implementation of a self-supervised, machine learning system which realizes our vision. Preliminary experiments demonstrate the high precision of our system's extracted data - in one case equaling that of humans.	0	1
Avoiding Tragedy in the Wiki-Commons	Andrew George	Wikipedia Public good Volunteer		English	For some reason, thousands of volunteers contribute to Wikipedia, with no expectation of remuneration or direct credit, with the constant risk of their work being altered. As a voluntary public good, it seems that Wikipedia ought to face a problem of non-contribution. Yet, this Article argues that like much of the Open Source Movement, Wikipedia overcomes this problem by locking-in a core group of dedicated volunteers who are motivated by a desire to join and gain status within the Wikipedia community. Yet, undesirable contribution is just as significant a risk to Wikipedia as under-contribution. Bad informational inputs, including vandalism and anti-intellectualism, put the project at risk, because Wikipedia requires a degree of credibility to maintain its lock-in effect. At the same time, Wikipedia is so dependent on the work of its core community, that governance strategies to exclude bad inputs must be delicately undertaken. Therefore, this Article argues that to maximize useful participation, Wikipedia must carefully combat harmful inputs while preserving the zeal of its core-community, as failure to do either may result in tragedy.	6	1
BLOGS, RSS, and WIKIS	Thomas C. Lominac		J. Comput. Sci. Coll.	English		0	0
Beyond Ubiquity: Co-creating Corporate Knowledge with a Wiki	H. Hasan J. A. Meloche C. C. Pfaff D. Willis			English	Despite their reputation as an evolving shared knowledge repository, Wikis are often treated with suspicion in organizations for management, social and legal reasons. Following studies of unsuccessful Wiki projects, a field study was undertaken of a corporate Wiki that has been developed to capture, and make available, organizational knowledge for a large manufacturing company as an initiative of their knowledge management program. A Q methodology research approach was selected to uncover employees' subjective attitudes to the Wiki so that the firm could more fully exploit the potential of the Wiki as a ubiquitous tool for tacit knowledge management.	0	1
Boosting Inductive Transfer for Text Classification Using Wikipedia	Somnath Banerjee		ICMLA	English		0	1
Bouillon: A wiki-wiki Social Web			Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	English		0	0
Building Collaborative Capacities in Learners: The M/Cyclopedia Project, Revisited	Axel Bruns Sal Humphreys	Wiki Tertiary education Pedagogy Produsage Social constructivism	WikiSym	English	In this paper we trace the evolution of a project using a wiki-based learning environment in a tertiary education setting. The project has the pedagogical goal of building learners’ capacities to work effectively in the networked, collaborative, creative environments of the knowledge economy. The paper explores the four key characteristics of a ‘produsage’ environment and identifies four strategic capacities that need to be developed in learners to be effective ‘produsers’ (user/producers). A case study is presented of our experiences with the subject New Media Technologies, run at Queensland University of Technology. This progress report updates our observations made at the 2005 WikiSym conference.	0	0
CAWS: Alla wiki system to improve workspace awareness to advance effectiveness of co-authoring activities			Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings	English		0	0
CAWS: a wiki system to improve workspace awareness to advance effectiveness of co-authoring activities	Ilaria Liccardi Hugh C. Davis Su White			English	Crucial to effective collaborative writing is knowledge of what other people are doing and have done, what meaningful changes are made to a document, who is editing each section of a document and why. This is because awareness of individual and group activities is critical to successful collaboration. This paper presents the problems that surround co-authoring activities, and the advantages of using CAWS are explained and compared with other implementation and techniques for collaborative authoring. This co-authoring wiki based system (CAWS), aims to improve workspace awareness in order to improve user.s response to the document development activit.	0	2
Catalyzing chemical bonding - The WIKI way			ACS Chemical Biology	English		0	0
Clustering short texts using Wikipedia	Somnath Banerjee Krishnan Ramanathan Ajay Gupta			English	Subscribers to the popular news or blog feeds (RSS/Atom) often face the problem of information overload as these feed sources usually deliver large number of items periodically. One solution to this problem could be clustering similar items in the feed reader to make the information more manageable for a user. Clustering items at the feed reader end is a challenging task as usually only a small part of the actual article is received through the feed. In this paper, we propose a method of improving the accuracy of clustering short texts by enriching their representation with additional features from Wikipedia. Empirical results indicate that this enriched representation of text items can substantially improve the clustering accuracy when compared to the conventional bag of words representation	0	0
Collaborative Knowledge Management: Evaluation of Automated Link Discovery in the Wikipedia	Wei Che Huang Andrew Trotman Shlomo Geva			English		0	0
Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment: Experiences from a software engineering course	Shailey Minocha Peter G. Thomas		New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia	English	The post-graduate course, Software Requirements for Business Systems, in the Department of Computing of the Open University involves teaching systematic elicitation and documentation of requirements for software systems. On a software development project, team members often work remotely from one another and increasingly use wikis to collaboratively develop the requirements specification. In order to emulate requirements engineering practice, the course has been enhanced to include group collaboration using a wiki. In this paper, we describe the wiki-based collaborative activities and the evaluation of the pedagogical effectiveness of a wiki for collaborative learning. Our evaluations have confirmed that the strength of a wiki, as a collaborative authoring tool, can facilitate the learning of course concepts and students’ appreciation of the distributed nature of the RE process context. However, there is a need to support the discussion aspects of collaborative activities with more appropriate tools. We have also found that there are certain usability aspects of wikis that can mar a positive student experience. This paper will be of interest to academics aspiring to employ wikis on their courses and to practitioners who wish to realize the potential of wikis in facilitating information sharing, knowledge management, and in fostering collaboration within and between organizations.	0	0
Collectivism vs. Individualism in a Wiki World: Librarians Respond to Jaron Lanier's Essay "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism"			Serials Review	English		0	0
Computational Trust in Web Content Quality: A Comparative Evalutation on the Wikipedia Project	Pierpaolo Dondio Stephen Barret			English		0	0
Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia-based explicit semantic analysis	Evgeniy Gabrilovich Shaul Markovitch		IJCAI	English		0	3
Conceptual enhancement via textual plurality: A pedagogical wiki bow towards collaborative structuration			Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA	English		0	0
Constructing an authentic learning community through Wiki for advanced group collaboration and knowledge sharing			Proceedings - The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2007	English		0	0
Constructing text: Wiki as a toolkit for (collaborative?) learning	Andrea Forte Amy Bruckman	Collaboration Constructionism Education Knowledge building Open content Wiki	WikiSym	English	Writing a book from which others can learn is itself a powerful learning experience. Based on this proposition, we have launched Science Online, a wiki to support learning in high school science classrooms through the collaborative production of an online science resource. Our approach to designing educational uses of technology is based on an approach to education called constructionism, which advocates learning by working on personally meaningful projects. Our research examines the ways that constructionism connects to collective models of knowledge production and learning such as Knowledge Building. In this paper, we explore ways that collaboration using wiki tools fits into the constructionist approach, we examine learning goals for youth growing up in a read-write culture, and we discuss preliminary findings in an ongoing year-long study of Science Online in the classroom. Despite the radically open collaboration afforded by wiki, we observe that many factors conspired to stymie collaborative writing on the site. We expected to find cultural barriers to wiki adoption in schools. Unexpectedly, we are also finding that the design of the wiki tool itself contributed barriers to collaborative writing in the classroom.	0	2
Cooperation and Quality in Wikipedia	Dennis M. Wilkinson Bernardo A. Huberman		WikiSym	English	The rise of the Internet has enabled collaboration and cooperation on anunprecedentedly large scale. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which presently comprises 7.2 million articles created by 7.04 million distinct editors, provides a consummate example. We examined all 50 million edits made tothe 1.5 million English-language Wikipedia articles and found that the high-quality articles are distinguished by a marked increase in number of edits, number of editors, and intensity of cooperative behavior, as compared to other articles of similar visibility and age. This is significant because in other domains, fruitful cooperation has proven to be difficult to sustain as the size of the collaboration increases. Furthermore, in spite of the vagaries of human behavior, we show that Wikipedia articles accrete edits according to a simple stochastic mechanism in which edits beget edits. Topics of high interest or relevance are thus naturally brought to the forefront of quality.	0	1
Cooperative repositories for formal proofs a wiki-based solution			Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	English		0	0
Creating and managing ontology data on the web: a semantic wiki approach	Chao Wang Jie Lu Guangquan Zhang Xianyi Zeng		WISE	English		0	0
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in Wikipedia	Reid Priedhorsky Jilin Chen Shyong Tony Katherine Panciera Loren Terveen John Riedl			English	Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is viewed. Using several datasets, including recent logs of all article views, we show that an overwhelming majority of the viewed words were written by frequent editors and that this majority is increasing. Similarly, using the same impact measure, we show that the probability of a typical article view being damaged is small but increasing, and we present empirically grounded classes of damage. Finally, we make policy recommendations for Wikipedia and other wikis in light of these findings.	0	9
DBpedia: A nucleus for a web of open data	Sören Auer Christian Bizer Jens Lehmann Georgi Kobilarov Richard Cyganiak Zachary Ives		ISWC	English		0	2
Deriving a Large Scale Taxonomy from Wikipedia	Simone Paolo Ponzetto Michael Strube		AAAI'07: Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence	English	We take the category system in Wikipedia as a conceptual network. We label the semantic relations between categories using methods based on connectivity in the network and lexicosyntactic matching. As a result we are able to derive a large scale taxonomy containing a large amount of subsumption, i.e. isa, relations. We evaluate the quality of the created resource by comparing it with ResearchCyc, one of the largest manually annotated ontologies, as well as computing semantic similarity between words in benchmarking datasets.	2	0
Design of a Wiki-based collaborative working strategy within the context of legal sciences			European Journal of Legal Education	English		0	0
DistriWiki: A Distributed Peer-to-Peer Wiki	Joseph C. Morris		WikiSym	English	In this paper, we present DistriWiki, a peer-to-peer wiki. Motivated by the fact that the client-server architecture of the Web has limitations caused by the centralized nature of Web servers, we designed DistriWiki as a more open, more distributed alternative. In DistriWiki, each user’s computer acts as a peer that stores redundant copies of wiki pages; in this way, we can reduce bandwidth and hardware costs, reduce the number of failures due to hardware and configuration errors, and avoid centralized organizational control of the wiki pages.	0	0
Do As I Do: Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia	Joseph M. Reagle		WikiSym	English		0	0
Does it matter who contributes: a study on featured articles in the German Wikipedia	Klaus Stein Claudia Hess			English	The considerable high quality of Wikipedia articles is often accredited to the large number of users who contribute to Wikipedia's encyclopedia articles, who watch articles and correct errors immediately. In this paper, we are in particular interested in a certain type of Wikipedia articles, namely, the featured articles - articles marked by a community's vote as being of outstanding quality. The German Wikipedia has the nice property that it has two types of featured articles: excellent and worth reading. We explore on the German Wikipedia whether only the mere number of contributors makes the difference or whether the high quality of featured articles results from having experienced authors contributing with a reputation for high quality contributions. Our results indicate that it does matter who contributes.	0	0
Dynamic link service 2.0: using Wikipedia as a linkbase	Patrick A. S. Sinclair Kirk Martinez Paul H. Lewis			English		0	0
EXTIRP: Baseline Retrieval from Wikipedia	Miro Lehtonen Antoine Doucet		Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems	English	The Wikipedia XML documents are considered an interesting challenge to any XML retrieval system that is capable of indexing and retrieving XML without prior knowledge of the structure. Although the structure of the Wikipedia XML documents is highly irregular and thus unpredictable, EXTIRP manages to handle all the well-formed XML documents without problems. Whether the high flexibility of EXTIRP also implies high performance concerning the quality of IR has so far been a question without definite answers. The initial results do not confirm any positive answers, but instead, they tempt us to define some requirements for the XML documents that EXTIRP is expected to index. The most interesting question stemming from our results is about the line between high-quality XML markup which aids accurate IR and noisy “XML spam” that misleads flexible XML search engines.	0	0
Enabling Customer-Centricity Using Wikis and the Wiki Way	Christian Wagner Ann Majchrzak		Journal of Management Information Systems	English	Customer-centric business makes the needs and resources of individual customers the starting point for planning new products and services or improving existing ones. While customer-centricity has received recent attention in the marketing literature, technologies to enable customer-centricity have been largely ignored in research and theory development. In this paper, we describe one enabling technology—wikis. Wiki is a Web-based collaboration technology designed to allow anyone to update any information posted to a wiki-based Web site. As such, wikis can be used to enable customers to not only access but also change the organization's Web presence, creating previously unheard of opportunities for joint content development and "peer production" of Web content. At the same time, such openness may make the organization vulnerable to Web site defacing, destruction of intellectual property, and general chaos. In this zone of tension—between opportunity and possible failure—an increasing number of organizations are experimenting with the use of wikis and the wiki way to engage customers. Three cases of organizations using wikis to foster customer-centricity are described, with each case representing an ever-increasing level of customer engagement. An examination of the three cases reveals six characteristics that affect customer engagement—community custodianship, goal alignment among contributors, value-adding processes, emerging layers of participation, critical mass of management and monitoring activity, and technologies in which features are matched to assumptions about how the community collaborates. Parallels between our findings and those evolving in studies of the open source software movement are drawn.	0	1
Evaluating the Comprehensiveness of Wikipedia: The Case of Biochemistry	Brendan Luyt Wee Kwek Ju Sim Peng York		Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers	English	In recent years, the world of encyclopedia publishing has been challenged as new collaborative models of online information gathering and sharing have developed. Most notable of these is Wikipedia. Although Wikipedia has a core group of devotees, it has also attracted critical comment and concern, most notably in regard to its quality. In this article we compare the scope of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica in the subject of biochemistry using a popular first year undergraduate textbook as a benchmark for concepts that should appear in both works, if they are to be considered comprehensive in scope.	0	0
Experimental attempts of using the Wiki-based knowledge sharing system at Syowa Station by 47th JARE			Antarctic Record	English		0	0
Exploit Semantic Information for Category Annotation Recommendation in Wikipedia	Yang Wang Haofen Wang Haiping Zhu Yong Yu		Natural Language Processing and Information Systems	English	Compared with plain-text resources, the ones in “semi-semantic” web sites, such as Wikipedia, contain high-level semantic information which will benefit various automatically annotating tasks on themself. In this paper, we propose a “collaborative annotating” approach to automatically recommend categories for a Wikipedia article by reusing category annotations from its most similar articles and ranking these annotations by their confidence. In this approach, four typical semantic features in Wikipedia, namely incoming link, outgoing link, section heading and template item, are investigated and exploited as the representation of articles to feed the similarity calculation. The experiment results have not only proven that these semantic features improve the performance of category annotating, with comparison to the plain text feature; but also demonstrated the strength of our approach in discovering missing annotations and proper level ones for Wikipedia articles.	0	0
Exploiting Wikipedia as External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition	Junichi Kazama Kentaro Torisawa			English		0	0
Fact Discovery in Wikipedia	Sisay F. Adafre V. Jijkoun Maarten de Rijke			English		0	0
Finding related pages using Green measures: an illustration with Wikipedia	Yann Ollivier Pierre Senellart		AAAI	English		0	2
Finding the right tool for the community: Bringing a Wiki-type editor to the world of reusable learning objects			Proceedings - The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2007	English		0	0
Finding your way with CampusWiki: a location-aware wiki	Richard P. Schuler Nathaniel Laws Sameer Bajaj Sukeshini A. Grandhi Quentin Jones	Wiki Collaborative authoring Location-awareness	CHI EA	English		0	0
Fusing Visual and Textual Retrieval Techniques to Effectively Search Large Collections of Wikipedia Images	C. Lau D. Tjondronegoro J. Zhang S. Geva Y. Liu		Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems	English	This paper presents an experimental study that examines the performance of various combination techniques for content-based image retrieval using a fusion of visual and textual search results. The evaluation is comprehensively benchmarked using more than 160,000 samples from INEX-MM2006 images dataset and the corresponding XML documents. For visual search, we have successfully combined Hough transform, Object’s color histogram, and Texture (H.O.T). For comparison purposes, we used the provided UvA features. Based on the evaluation, our submissions show that Uva+Text combination performs most effectively, but it is closely followed by our H.O.T- (visual only) feature. Moreover, H.O.T+Text performance is still better than UvA (visual) only. These findings show that the combination of effective text and visual search results can improve the overall performance of CBIR in Wikipedia collections which contain a heterogeneous (i.e. wide) range of genres and topics.	0	0
Genome re-annotation: a wiki solution?	Steven L. Salzberg			English	The annotation of most genomes becomes outdated over time, owing in part to our ever-improving knowledge of genomes and in part to improvements in bioinformatics software. Unfortunately, annotation is rarely if ever updated and resources to support routine reannotation are scarce. Wiki software, which would allow many scientists to edit each genome's annotation, offers one possible solution.	0	0
Harvesting Wiki Consensus: Using Wikipedia Entries as Vocabulary for Knowledge Management	Martin Hepp Katharina Siorpaes Daniel Bachlechner			English	Vocabularies that provide unique identifiers for conceptual elements of a domain can improve precision and recall in knowledge-management applications. Although creating and maintaining such vocabularies is generally hard, wiki users easily manage to develop comprehensive, informal definitions of terms, each one identified by a URI. Here, the authors show that the URIs of Wikipedia entries are reliable identifiers for conceptual entities. They also demonstrate how Wikipedia entries can be used for annotating Web resources and knowledge assets and give precise estimates of the amount of Wikipedia URIs in terms of the popular Proton ontology's top-level concepts.	0	0
He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia	Aniket Kittur Bongwon Suh Bryan A. Pendleton Ed H. Chi			English	Wikipedia, a wiki-based encyclopedia, has become one of the most successful experiments in collaborative knowledge building on the Internet. As Wikipedia continues to grow, the potential for conflict and the need for coordination increase as well. This article examines the growth of such non-direct work and describes the development of tools to characterize conflict and coordination costs in Wikipedia. The results may inform the design of new collaborative knowledge systems.	0	16
Improving weak ad-hoc queries using Wikipedia asexternal corpus	Yinghao Li Wing Kei Fu			English	In an ad-hoc retrieval task, the query is usually short and the user expects to find the relevant documents in the first several result pages. We explored the possibilities of using Wikipedia's articles as an external corpus to expand ad-hoc queries. Results show promising improvements over measures that emphasize on weak queries.	0	0
Innovating Collaborative Content Creation: The Role of Altruism and Wiki Technology	Christian Wagner Pattarawan Prasarnphanich		HICSS	English	Wikipedia demonstrates the feasibility and success of an innovative form of content creation, namely openly shared, collaborative writing. This research sought to understand the success of Wikipedia as a collaborative model, considering both technology and participant motivations. The research finds that while participants have both individualistic and collaborative motives, collaborative (altruistic) motives dominate. The collaboration model differs from that of open source software development, which is less inclusive with respect to participation, and more "selfish" with respect to contributor motives. The success of the Wikipedia model appears to be related to wiki technology and the "wiki way" of collaboration	0	2
Intelligent Web Services Selection based on AHP and Wiki	Chen Wu Elizabeth Chang			English	Web Service selection is an essential element in Service-Oriented Computing. How to wisely select appropriate Web services for the benefits of service consumers is a key issue in service discovery. In this paper, we approach QoS-based service selection using a decision making model – the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In our solution, both subjective and objective criteria are supported by the AHP engine in a context-specific manner. We also provide a flexible Wiki platform to collaboratively form the initial QoS model within a service community. The software prototype is evaluated against the system scalability.	0	0
It's a wiki wiki world			Medical Reference Services Quarterly	English		0	0
It's time to use a wiki as part of your web site			Computers in Libraries	English		0	0
Key biology databases go wiki	Jim Giles			English		0	0
KnowWE: community-based knowledge capture with knowledge wikis	Joachim Baumeister Jochen Reutelshoefer Frank Puppe	Collaboration Distributed knowledge enigneering Knowledge systems	K-CAP	English		0	0
Knowledge capture and dissemination using a collaborative 'wiki' environment			Transactions of the American Nuclear Society	English		0	0
Knowledge derived from wikipedia for computing semantic relatedness	Simone Paolo Ponzetto Michael Strube		J. Artif. Int. Res.	English		0	3
Knowledge management in a Wiki platform via microformats			Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007	English		0	0
La révolution Wikipédia : les encyclopédies vont-elles mourir?	Pierre Gourdain Florence O'Kelly Béatrice Roman-Amat Delphine Soulas Tassilo von Droste zu Hülshoff		Les Mille et Une Nuits	French		0	1
Large-Scale Named Entity Disambiguation Based on Wikipedia Data	Silviu Cucerzan			English		0	0
Learning Experience of Student Journalists: Utilizing Collaborative Writing Medium Wikis	Will Wai-kit Ma Allan Hoi-kau Yuen	News Writing Processes Revision Social Interaction Wiki		English		0	0
Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation	Ryuichiro Higashinaka Kohji Dohsaka Hideki Isozaki			English		0	0
Ler, escrever, editar comentar, voltar... Os desafios do letramento digital na web 2.0	Carlos Frederico de Brito d’Andréa	Digital literacy Web 2.0 Internet	Língua Escrita	Portuguese	The internet connection as a basic caracteristic of the “Network Society” resulted in new challenges for the digital literacy. The fast popularization of Internet was impacted, since 2005, by a new generation of web sites, called Web 2.0, in which is possible everyone can participate directly of the process of elaboration, publication and edition of contents. For digital literacy, this concept results in new habilities, considering that all management process is made by the users. In this paper, we present two important sites of Web 2.0: YouTube, popular in sharing videos, and Wikipedia, the enciclopedia that any one can edit. In conclusion, are discussed the habilities expected for a complete participation of “readers” in colaborative projects.	4	0
Library 2.0 and User-Generated Content: What can the users do for us?	Patrick Danowski		World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council	English	Library 2.0 and user-generated content are two terms, which are closely connected. In the presentation, I will briefly define both terms. Two example projects where user- generated content and libraries interact will be presented. The cooperation of Wikipedia and the Personennamendatei, the German cooperative name authority files is the first. The second will be Wikisource where users provide transcribed source material. Another important area of user-generated content is social tagging where users index different resources. And if the users will do so much in the future, is there still a place for librarians? But in the future user and librarians become partners and the library will provide the platform: the library 2.0.	0	0
Library association 2.0 "will that be a name badge or a wiki?"			Searcher: Magazine for Database Professionals	English		0	0
Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge	Andras Csomai Rada Mihalcea			English		0	0
Locapedias: Generación de contenido local de manera colaborativa	Alfredo Romeo Molina	Wikipedia Locapedia Future Web 2.0 The power of many Cordobapedia Madripedia Encyclopedia Locapedias	IX Jornadas de Gestión de la Información	Spanish	Wikipedia has become the biggest encyclopedia ever made in the world. With more than four million articles written in hundreds of languages, Wikipedia is nowadays one of the five internet well-known branches in the world. In 2004, following the Wikipedia model, Alfredo Romeo suggests the launching of “locapedias”, based on the voluntary and collaborative model of contributors, with the aim of creating the biggest knowledge centre ever written about a local area. In 2005 the first “locapedia”, Cordobapedia, is founded. About two years later, 12 locapedias can be found in Spain, with about 20000 local articles made in a collaborative way. As time goes by, locapedias will probably represent for cities and regions the same as wikipedia has achieved: the largest reference web-site for local knowledge in any city with a locapedia. For locapedias, the fact that public institutions, as libraries or local archives, head these proyects could be the needed guaranteed mark to consolidate a movement of local-free knowleadge creation, which will be the reference for the society we are unstoppable going to: the knowledge society.	1	1
Measuring article quality in Wikipedia: models and evaluation	Meiqun Hu Ee P. Lim Aixin Sun Hady W. Lauw Ba Q. Vuong			English		0	5
Midweight collaborative remembering: wikis in the workplace	Kevin F. White Wayne G. Lutters	CSCW knowledge management Computer supported collaborative work Organizational memory Wiki	CHIMIT	English		0	0
Mining Wikipedia and Relating Named Entities over Time	Abhijit Bhole Blaz Fortuna Marko Grobelnik Dunja Mladeni			English		0	0
New method using Wikis and forums to evaluate individual contributions in cooperative work while promoting experiential learning: results from preliminary experience	Xavier de Pedro Puente	Tikiwiki CMS/Groupware Action log Assessment Computer supported cooperative learning (CSCL) Experiential-reflective learning Individual contributions Knowledge building	WikiSym	English		0	4
Notes for a Collaboration: On the Design of a Wiki-type Educational Video Lecture Annotation System	Stefano Ferretti Silvia Mirri Marco Roccetti Paola Salomoni		ICSC	English		0	0
On improving Wikipedia search using article quality	Meiqun Hu Ee-Peng Lim Aixin Sun Hady W. Lauw Ba-Quy Vuong			English		0	0
On-line Collaborative Software Development via Wiki	Wenpeng Xiao Changyan Chi Min Yang		WikiSym	English	Wiki is a collaborative authoring system for collective intelligence which is quickly gaining popularity in content publication. In software development communities, especially open source and global software development teams, wiki is already widely used for documentation and coordination purpose but not programming purpose. This paper presents a new programming approach based on wiki technology by which developers are able to experience "writing wiki page is wring source code". Moreover, developers are able to compile, execute and debug programs in wiki pages too. A prototype of such on-line collaborative software development environment, Galaxy Wiki, is developed in this environment iteratively in order to prove the concept.	0	1
Ontology evaluation using wikipedia categories for browsing	Jonathan Yu James A. Thom Audrey Tam	Browsing Ontology evaluation User studies Wikipedia	CIKM	English		0	0
Other riffs on cooperation are already showing how well a wiki could work	John D. Osborne Simon Lin Warren A. Kibbe			English		0	0
PORE: Positive-Only Relation Extraction from Wikipedia Text	Gang Wang Yong Yu Haiping Zhu		The Semantic Web	English	Extracting semantic relations is of great importance for the creation of the Semantic Web content. It is of great benefit to semi-automatically extract relations from the free text of Wikipedia using the structured content readily available in it. Pattern matching methods that employ information redundancy cannot work well since there is not much redundancy information in Wikipedia, compared to the Web. Multi-class classification methods are not reasonable since no classification of relation types is available in Wikipedia. In this paper, we propose PORE (Positive-Only Relation Extraction), for relation extraction from Wikipedia text. The core algorithm B-POL extends a state-of-the-art positive-only learning algorithm using bootstrapping, strong negative identifi cation, and transductive inference to work with fewer positive training exam ples. We conducted experiments on several relations with different amount of training data. The experimental results show that B-POL can work effectively given only a small amount of positive training examples and it significantly out per forms the original positive learning approaches and a multi-class SVM. Furthermore, although PORE is applied in the context of Wiki pedia, the core algorithm B-POL is a general approach for Ontology Population and can be adapted to other domains.	0	0
Peer-to-Peer Wikis: Replication of Highly Dynamic Content on XWiki	Sergiu Dumitriu Sabin Corneliu Buraga		SYNASC	English		0	0
Personalized information access in a wiki using structured tagging	Anmol V. Singh Andreas Wombacher Karl Aberer		OTM	English		0	0
Project the wiki way: using wiki for computer science course project management	Li Xu		J. Comput. Sci. Coll.	English		0	1
Quantitative Analysis of the Wikipedia Community of Users	Felipe Ortega Jesús M. González-Barahona		WikiSym	English	Many activities of editors in Wikipedia can be traced using its database dumps, which register detailed information about every single change to every article. Several researchers have used this information to gain knowledge about the production process of articles, and about activity patterns of authors. In this analysis, we have focused on one of those previous works, by Kittur et al. First, we have followed the same methodology with more recent and comprehensive data. Then, we have extended this methodology to precisely identify which fraction of authors are producing most of the changes in Wikipedia's articles, and how the behaviour of these authors evolves over time. This enabled us not only to validate some of the previous results, but also to find new interesting evidences. We have found that the analysis of sysops is not a good method for estimating different levels of contributions, since it is dependent on the policy for electing them (which changes over time and for each language). Moreover, we have found new activity patterns classifying authors by their contributions during specific periods of time, instead of using their total number of contributions over the whole life of Wikipedia. Finally, we present a tool that automates this extended methodology, implementing a quick and complete quantitative analysis ofevery language edition in Wikipedia.	0	4
Ranking very many typed entities on Wikipedia	Hugo Zaragoza Henning Rode Peter Mika Jordi Atserias Massimiliano Ciaramita Giuseppe Attardi			English		0	0
Reading and writing with Wikis: progress and plans	Clif Kussmaul Sharon Albert	Collaboration Peer Reading Review Wiki Writing	C\&C	English		0	0
Reading, writing, and revising with wiki technology: tutorial presentation	Cliff Kussmaul Sharon Albert		J. Comput. Sci. Coll.	English		0	0
Recommender System Based on User-generated Content	Denis Turdakov			English		0	0
Reduce response time: get "hooked" on a wiki	Rebecca Klein Matthew Smith David Sierkowski	Collaboration Communication Help desk Information Knowledge base Training Wiki	SIGUCCS	English		0	0
Relation extraction from wikipedia using subtree mining	Dat P. T. Nguyen Yutaka Matsuo Mitsuru Ishizuka		AAAI	English		0	0
Scientific citations in Wikipedia	Finn Årup Nielsen		First Monday	English	The Internet–based encyclopædia Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most visited Web sites on the Internet, but critics have questioned the quality of entries. An empirical study of Wikipedia found errors in a 2005 sample of science entries. Biased coverage and lack of sources are among the “Wikipedia risks.” This paper describes a simple assessment of these aspects by examining the outbound links from Wikipedia articles to articles in scientific journals with a comparison against journal statistics from Journal Citation Reports such as impact factors. The results show an increasing use of structured citation markup and good agreement with citation patterns seen in the scientific literature though with a slight tendency to cite articles in high–impact journals such as Nature and Science. These results increase confidence in Wikipedia as a reliable information resource for science in general.	7	5
Self-emergence of knowledge trees: Extraction of the Wikipedia hierarchies	Lev Muchnik Royi Itzhack Sorin Solomon Yoram Louzoun		Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics)	English	The rapid accumulation of knowledge and the recent emergence of new dynamic and practically unmoderated information repositories have rendered the classical concept of the hierarchal knowledge structure irrelevant and impossible to impose manually. This led to modern methods of data location, such as browsing or searching, which conceal the underlying information structure. We here propose methods designed to automatically construct a hierarchy from a network of related terms. We apply these methods to Wikipedia and compare the hierarchy obtained from the article network to the complementary acyclic category layer of the Wikipedia and show an excellent fit. We verify our methods in two networks with no a priori hierarchy (the E. Coli genetic regulatory network and the C. Elegans neural network) and a network of function libraries of modern computer operating systems that are intrinsically hierarchical and reproduce a known functional order.	0	0
Semantic Convergence of Wikipedia Articles	Christopher Thomas Amit P. Sheth			English	Social networking, distributed problem solving and human computation have gained high visibility. Wikipedia is a well established service that incorporates aspects of these three fields of research. For this reason it is a good object of study for determining quality of solutions in a social setting that is open, completely distributed, bottom up and not peer reviewed by certified experts. In particular, this paper aims at identifying semantic convergence of Wikipedia articles; the notion that the content of an article stays stable regardless of continuing edits. This could lead to an automatic recommendation of good article tags but also add to the usability of Wikipedia as a Web Service and to its reliability for information extraction. The methods used and the results obtained in this research can be generalized to other communities that iteratively produce textual content.	0	1
Semantic wiki representations for building an enterprise knowledge base			Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	English		0	0
Social rewarding in wiki systems - motivating the community	Bernhard Hoisl Wolfgang Aigner Silvia Miksch	Contribution Motivation Online community Participation Social rewarding Wiki	OCSC	English		0	0
Some Experiments in Humour Recognition Using the Italian Wikiquote Collection	Davide Buscaldi Paolo Rosso		Lecture Notes in Computer Science	English	In this paper we present some results obtained in humour classification over a corpus of Italian quotations manually extracted and tagged from the Wikiquote project. The experiments were carried out using both a multinomial Naïve Bayes classifier and a Support Vector Machine (SVM). The considered features range from single words to n-grams and sentence length. The obtained results show that it is possible to identify the funny quotes even with the simplest features (bag of words); the bayesian classifier performed better than the SVM. However, the size of the corpus size is too small to support definitive assertions.	0	0
Structuring Wiki Revision History	Mikalai Sabel		WikiSym	English	Revision history of a wiki page is traditionally maintained as a linear chronological sequence. We propose to represent revision history as a tree of versions. Every edge in the tree is given a weight, called adoption coefficient, indicating similarity between the two corresponding page versions. The same coefficients are used to build the tree. In the implementation described, adoption coefficients are derived from comparing texts of the versions, similarly to computing edit distance. The tree structure reflects actual evolution of page content, revealing reverts, vandalism, and edit wars, which is demonstrated on Wikipedia examples. The tree representation is useful for both human editors and automated algorithms, including trust and reputation schemes for wiki.	0	1
Student Project Collaboration Using Wikis	Joseph Chao		CSEET	English		0	0
Subtree mining for relation extraction from Wikipedia	Dat P. T. Nguyen Yutaka Matsuo Mitsuru Ishizuka		NAACL-Short	English		0	0
SuggestBot: using intelligent task routing to help people find work in Wikipedia	Dan Cosley Dan Frankowski Loren Terveen John Riedl	Online community Member-maintained communities Wikipedia Intelligent task routing Recommender system		English	Member-maintained communities ask their users to perform tasks the community needs. From Slashdot, to IMDb, to Wikipedia, groups with diverse interests create community-maintained artifacts of lasting value (CALV) that support the group's main purpose and provide value to others. Said communities don't help members find work to do, or do so without regard to individual preferences, such as Slashdot assigning meta-moderation randomly. Yet social science theory suggests that reducing the cost and increasing the personal value of contribution would motivate members to participate more. We present SuggestBot, software that performs intelligent task routing (matching people with tasks) in Wikipedia. SuggestBot uses broadly applicable strategies of text analysis, collaborative filtering, and hyperlink following to recommend tasks. SuggestBot's intelligent task routing increases the number of edits by roughly four times compared to suggesting random articles. Our contributions are: 1) demonstrating the value of intelligent task routing in a real deployment; 2) showing how to do intelligent task routing; and 3) sharing our experience of deploying a tool in Wikipedia, which offered both challenges and opportunities for research.	0	0
System Description: An Orienteering Strategy to Browse Semantically-Enhanced Educational Wiki Pages	Luciano Pansanato Renata Fortes		The Semantic Web: Research and Applications	English	Wikis have been adopted along the years, aiming to provide an easy and simple support to people keep the information systems on the Internet up-to-date, and making possible efficient collaborative authoring. As the number of pages and corresponding contents increases, wiki users face difficulties when browsing for wiki pages. This paper presents a system prototype based on orienteering to browse semantically-enhanced educational wiki pages. The results of a user-based evaluation of the system prototype are also presented.	0	0
System description: An orienteering strategy to browse semantically- enhanced educational wiki pages			Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	English		0	0
Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia	Fernanda B. Viégas Martin Wattenberg Jesse Kriss Frank van Ham		HICSS	English		0	9
The Analysis and Visualization of Entries in Wiki Services	Jakub Gawryjolek Piotr Gawrysiak			English	The use of online collaboration environments has become exceptionally widespread over the past decade. One of the most popular styles of collaboration are the “wiki” web sites. They have attracted attention because of their policy of letting anyone become an editor. This paper presents the technique for the analysis and visualization of Wikipedia - the largest wiki in existence. Specifically, it concentrates on some activity patterns of its contributors. First, a new visualization and analysis tool named JWikiVis is presented. Second, with the use of this software, some interesting user behaviors are described. Finally, text classification algorithms are applied in order to determine some patterns observed in individual wiki pages as well as in the entire service.	0	0
The Cult of the Amateur	Andrew Keen			English		0	0
The Hidden Order of Wikipedia	Fernanda B. Viégas Martin Wattenberg Matthew McKeon			English	We examine the procedural side of Wikipedia, the well-known internet encyclopedia. Despite the lack of structure in the underlying wiki technology, users abide by hundreds of rules and follow well-defined processes. Our case study is the Featured Article (FA) process, one of the best established procedures on the site. We analyze the FA process through the theoretical framework of commons governance, and demonstrate how this process blends elements of traditional workflow with peer production. We conclude that rather than encouraging anarchy, many aspects of wiki technology lend themselves to the collective creation of formalized process and policy.	0	6
The Pediaphon - Speech Interface to the free Wikipedia Encyclopedia for Mobile Phones, PDA's and MP3-Players	Andreas Bischoff		DEXA	English	This paper presents an approach to generate audio based learning material dynamically from Wikipedia articles for m-Learning and ubiquitous access. It introduces the so called ’Pediaphon’, an speech interface to the free Wikipedia online encyclopedia as an example application for ’microlearning’. The effective generation and the deployment of the audio data to the user via podcast or progressive download (pseudo streaming) are covered. A convenient cell phone interface to the Wikipedia content, which is usable with every mobile phone will be introduced.	0	0
The Visual Side of Wikipedia	Fernanda B. Viégas		HICSS	English		0	0
The wiki IETM			AUTOTESTCON (Proceedings)	English		0	0
The wiki approach to teaching: Using student collaboration to create an up-to-date open-source textbook			ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings	English		0	0
The wiki cable channel			Business Week	English		0	0
The wiki way: Prefiguring change, practicing democracy			Tailoring Biotechnologies	English		0	0
The world according to WIKI			T and D	English		0	1
Time to lose the sticky and try a wiki			Reference Librarian	English		0	0
Tools to foster semantic-based collaboration : A knowledge management approach based on a semantic wiki and personal ontologies			Webist 2007 - 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Proceedings	English		0	0
Towards Wiki-based Dense City Modeling	A. Irschara C. Zach H. Bischof		ICCV	English	This work reports on the advances and on the current status of a terrestrial city modeling approach, which uses images contributed by end-users as input. Hence, the Wiki principle well known from textual knowledge databases is transferred to the goal of incrementally building a virtual representation of the occupied habitat. In order to achieve this objective, many state-of-the-art computer vision methods must be applied and modified according to this task. We describe the utilized 3D vision methods and show initial results obtained from the current image database acquired by in-house participants.	0	0
Transactions for distributed wikis on structured overlays	Stefan Plantikow Alexander Reinefeld Florian Schintke	Concurrency control Consistency Content management systems Distributed transactions Structured overlay networks	DSOM	English		0	0
Twiki and wetpaint: two wikis in academic environments	Libby Hemphill Jude Yew	Academic environments Collaborative editing Comparison studies Social computing Wiki	GROUP	English		0	0
Us vs. Them: Understanding Social Dynamics in Wikipedia with Revert Graph Visualizations	Bongwon Suh Ed H. Chi Bryan A. Pendleton Aniket Kittur		Visual Analytics Science and Technology	English	Wikipedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia that has become one of the most popular collaborative on-line knowledge systems. As in any large collaborative system, as Wikipedia has grown, conflicts and coordination costs have increased dramatically. Visual analytic tools provide a mechanism for addressing these issues by enabling users to more quickly and effectively make sense of the status of a collaborative environment. In this paper we describe a model for identifying patterns of conflicts in Wikipedia articles. The model relies on users' editing history and the relationships between user edits, especially revisions that void previous edits, known as "reverts". Based on this model, we constructed Revert Graph, a tool that visualizes the overall conflict patterns between groups of users. It enables visual analysis of opinion groups and rapid interactive exploration of those relationships via detail drill- downs. We present user patterns and case studies that show the effectiveness of these techniques, and discuss how they could generalize to other systems.	0	4
Use of an enterprise wiki as a research collaboration tool.			AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium	English		0	0
Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation	Rada Mihalcea			English		0	0
Using Wikipedia technology for topic maps design	Junghoon Yang Jangwhan Han Inseok Oh Mingyung Kwak	Authoring Digital repositories Topic map		English		0	0
Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections	Ann M. Lally Carolyn E. Dunford		D-Lib Magazine	English		0	1
Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons			College and Research Libraries News	English		0	0
Using a wiki to write about wikis			Journal of Electronic Publishing	English		0	0
Using the Web to Reduce Data Sparseness in Pattern-based Information Extraction	Sebastian Blohm Philipp Cimiano			English		0	0
Using wiki as a multi-mode publishing platform	John W. Maxwell			English	The common problem plaguing almost all software systems today is brittleness. This paper describes a variety of explorations of the use of wiki software as the basis of publication- and content-management systems, and makes a case for taking simplicity as a virtue in systems design.	0	0
Using wiki technology to build a faculty publications database			Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries	English		0	0
Viable wikis: struggle for life in the wikisphere	Camille Roth	Collaborative work Online community User incentives Viability Wikipedia Wiki Wikisphere	WikiSym	English		0	1
Video-Wikis and media fluency	Erik Blankinship Bakhtiar Mikhak	Video-Wiki Accessibility Interactive media Media fluency	IDC	English		0	0
Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms	Martin Wattenberg Fernanda B. Viégas Katherine Hollenbach	Wikipedia Visualisation Peer Production Visualization		English	To investigate how participants in peer production systems allocate their time, we examine editing activity on Wikipedia, the well-known online encyclopedia. To analyze the huge edit histories of the site’s administrators we introduce a visualization technique, the chromogram, that can display very long textual sequences through a simple color coding scheme. Using chromograms we describe a set of characteristic editing patterns. In addition to confirming known patterns, such reacting to vandalism events, we identify a distinct class of organized systematic activities. We discuss how both reactive and systematic strategies shed light on self-allocation of effort in Wikipedia, and how they may pertain to other peer-production systems.	0	0
Visualizing an enterprise Wiki	Xianghua Ding Catalina Danis Thomas Erickson Wendy A. Kellogg		CHI	English	This paper describes the iterative development of a visualization for a wiki used in a large enterprise to manage research projects. An initial prototype-based field study exposed two main usage problems and provided five design ideas, which led to the development of an interactive visualization called CherryTree. The paper describes CherryTree, discusses the reactions of users, and discusses future directions for this work.	0	0
Wagging Wikipedia's long tail	Shane Greenstein	Economics Wikipedia Admins Verifiability John Huchra Patrick Stewart	IEEE Micro	English		0	0
Web Corpus Mining by Instance of Wikipedia	Rudiger Gleim Alexander Mehler Matthias Dehmer			English	In this paper we present an approach to structure learning in the area of web documents. This is done in order to approach the goal of webgenre tagging in the area of web corpus linguistics. A central outcome of the paper is that purely structure oriented approaches to web document classification provide an information gain which may be utilized in combined approaches of web content and structure analysis.	0	0
Web based platforms in co-located practice: the use of a wiki as support for learning and instruction	Gustav Lymer Johan Lundin Barry Brown Mattias Rost Lars Erik Holmquist		CSCL	English		0	0
What Have Innsbruck and Leipzig in Common? Extracting Semantics from Wiki Content	Sören Auer Jens Lehmann		The Semantic Web: Research and Applications	English	Wikis are established means for the collaborative authoring, versioning and publishing of textual articles. The Wikipedia project, for example, succeeded in creating the by far largest encyclopedia just on the basis of a wiki. Recently, several approaches have been proposed on how to extend wikis to allow the creation of structured and semantically enriched content. However, the means for creating semantically enriched structured content are already available and are, although unconsciously, even used by Wikipedia authors. In this article, we present a method for revealing this structured content by extracting information from template instances. We suggest ways to efficiently query the vast amount of extracted information (e.g. more than 8 million RDF statements for the English Wikipedia version alone), leading to astonishing query answering possibilities (such as for the title question). We analyze the quality of the extracted content, and propose strategies for quality improvements with just minor modifications of the wiki systems being currently used.	0	0
What motivates Wikipedians?	Oded Nov			English		0	5
Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class	Neil L. Waters		Commun. ACM	English		0	3
Wiki Organizational Charting: CogMap allows anyone to see, edit or create an org chart			Scientific Computing	English		0	0
Wiki Technology as a Scaffolding Tool in Education	Yu-Chien Chen		ISMW	English		0	0
Wiki a Ia carte: Understanding participation behaviors			Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting	English		0	0
Wiki literacy - Sandbox knowledge for the net			Hypertext 2007: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'07	English		0	0
Wiki literacy: sandbox knowledge for the net	Anja Ebersbach Markus Glaser	Learning Media literacy Wiki	HT	English		0	0
Wiki use in learning for topography Spanish students			Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	English		0	0
Wiki-Based Stakeholder Participation in Requirements Engineering	Bjorn Decker Eric Ras Jorg Rech Pascal Jaubert Marco Rieth		IEEE Software	English	Requirements elicitation and documentation are complex activities. So, not only the requirements themselves but also the people involved and the means for managing the requirements will evolve during the project. For example, it might be necessary to add RE personnel, to document templates, or to change the requirements classification scheme. In summary, especially in participative RE, the underlying platform as well the RE approach must be flexible. As the well-known Wikipedia shows, wikis provide a flexible platform for asynchronous collaboration to create content in general. In this article, we investigate how to adapt this approach to support active stakeholder participation in RE. We include a document structure for wiki-based RE and discuss potential problems and solutions based on our experience	0	0
Wiki-Philosophizing in a Marketplace of Ideas: Evaluating Wikipedia’s Entries on Seven Great Minds	George Bragues	Wikipedia Information Information Market Encyclopedia Media New Media Participatory Media Philosophy Marketplace of Ideas	SSRN Electronic Journal	English	A very conspicuous part of the new participatory media, Wikipedia has emerged as the Internet's leading source of all-purpose information, the volume and range of its articles far surpassing that of its traditional rival, the Encyclopedia Britannica. This has been accomplished by permitting virtually anyone to contribute, either by writing an original article or editing an existing one. With almost no entry barriers to the production of information, the result is that Wikipedia exhibits a perfectly competitive marketplace of ideas. It has often been argued that such a marketplace is the best guarantee that quality information will be generated and disseminated. We test this contention by examining Wikipedia's entries on seven top Western philosophers. These entries are evaluated against the consensus view elicited from four academic reference works in philosophy. Wikipedia's performance turns out to be decidedly mixed. Its average coverage rate of consensus topics is 52%, while the median rate is 56%. A qualitative analysis uncovered no outright errors, though there were significant omissions. The online encyclopedia's harnessing of the marketplace of ideas, though not unimpressive, fails to emerge as clearly superior to the traditional alternative of relying on individual expertise for information.	7	1
Wiki-Surgery? Internal validity of Wikipedia as a medical and surgical reference	Lara Devgan Neil Powe Brittony Blakey Martin Makary		Journal of the American College of Surgeons	English		0	1
Wiki-based process framework for blended learning	Marija Cubric		WikiSym	English	With few exceptions, currently published research on theeducational use of wikis does not include how the learningactivities should be shaped, planned or enforced in a wiki. Inthis paper we aim to fill that gap by providing a framework forlearning and teaching processes supported by the use of wikis. Aninstance of that process framework ("feedback-driven" process) wasformulated and implemented through a series of trials performed atUniversity of Hertfordshire Business School during the course ofthe last two academic years to 2006/7. The results of the trialhave been collected and analyzed using the quantitative andqualitative methods and have led to the conclusion that studentsengagement with wiki-based learning activities is directlyproportional to the quality and frequency of tutors feedback andthe clarity of the underlying learning and teaching process.	0	1
Wiki-news interface agent based on AIS methods			Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	English		0	0
WikiCreole: A Common Wiki Markup	Christoph Sauer Chuck Smith Tomas Benz		WikiSym	English	In this paper, we describe the wiki markup language WikiCreole, how it was developed, and related work. Creole does not replace existing markup, but instead enables wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice users to contribute more easily. In proposing a subset of markup elements that is as non-controversial as possible, this markup has evolved from existing wiki markup, hence the name Creole: a stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages.	0	0
WikiMedia	Brandon Keim		Nature medicine	English	Uneasy with information websites policed by people with little expertise, scientists are creating their own online encyclopedias. But are they accessible enough to supplant Wikipedia, asks Brandon Keim.	0	1
WikiNavMap: a visualisation to supplement team-based wikis	Adam Ullman Judy Kay		CHI	English		0	1
Wikipatterns	Stewart Mader			English		0	0
Wikipedia 2.0, with added trust	J. Giles			English		0	0
Wikipedia Users	Lee Rainie Bill Tancer			English	36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia It is particularly popular with the well-educated and current college-age students	0	2
Wikipedia as Rational Discourse: An Illustration of the Emancipatory Potential of Information Systems	Sean Hansen Nicholas Berente Kalle Lyytinen		HICSS	English		0	0
Wikipedia in the pocket: indexing technology for near-duplicate detection and high similarity search	Martin Potthast			English		0	0
Wikipedia mining for an association web thesaurus construction	Kotaro Nakayama Takahiro Hara Shojiro Nishio		WISE	English		0	0
Wikipedia revisited	Nora Miller		ETC.: A Review of General Semantics	English		0	0
Wikipedia vs The Old Guard			PC Pro	English		0	0
Wikipedia – informationspublicering på Internet ur ett genus- och maktperspektiv	Karolina Samuelsson Annika Lindkvist	Information publishing Wikipedia Digital divide Digital democracy Internet		Swedish	Title in English: Wikipedia – Internet publishing from a gender- and power perspective. This essay is about publishing on the Internet and aims to understand the differences between publishing information on the webpage Wikipedia (Swedish version) in contrast to other in-formation pages on the Internet, for example blog, discussion pages, homepages etcetera. The study is based upon an article which described that 90% of the information publishers at Wi-kipedia belongs to a small elite of white, western, well educated men between the age of thirty to thirty-three. This study examines why people who does not belong to this heteronormativi-ty publish information in other Internet places but not at Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an open source site, where anyone can publish and are even encouraged to do so and is often described as an utopian dream of the digital democracy, so why don´t people ex-press themselves on Wikipedia? The method is based on two discussion groups, which are compared and analyzed. The study is based upon theoretical competence within feminist theory and conceptions such as intersectionality, heteronormativity and digital divide as well as theories about digital devices and social order. The analyses concluded that Wikipedias structure restrains people from contributing with information on the site, that is understand to be associated with true and objective information and prestige. It is also compared to the printed encyclopedia which also strengthens this understanding. And when people publish information in other coherences it is based upon their own understanding, and this require-ment for true and objective information at Wikipedia hinder many.	0	0
Wikipedia-Based Kernels for Text Categorization	Zsolt Minier Zalan Bodo Lehel Csato			English		0	0
Wikipédia – Guia Prático de Consulta e Edição	Eduardo Pinheiro			Portuguese		0	0
Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool	Piotr Konieczny		International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning	English		0	0
Wikis in Education: Is Public Better?	Sarah Guth	Blended course development Collective authoring Public wiki	WikiSym	English		0	0
Wikis in Libraries	Matthew M. Bejune		Information Technology & Libraries	English	Wikis have recently been adopted to support a variety of collaborative activities within libraries. This article and its companion wiki, Library Wikis (http://librarywikis.pbwiki.com/), seek to document the phenomenon of wikis in libraries. This subject is considered within the framework of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). The author identified thirty-three library wikis and developed a classification schema with four categories: (1) collaboration among libraries (45.7 percent); (2) collaboration among library staff (31.4 percent); (3) collaboration among library staff and patrons (14.3 percent); and (4) collaboration among patrons (8.6 percent). Examples of library wikis are presented within the article, as is a discussion for why wikis are primarily utilized within categories I and II and not within categories III and IV. It is clear that wikis have great utility within libraries, and the author urges further application of wikis in libraries.	6	0
Wild, Wild Wikis: A way forward	Robert Charles Adigun Ranmi		C5	English		0	0
Wooki: A P2P Wiki-Based Collaborative Writing Tool	Stéphane Weiss Pascal Urso Pascal Molli		Web Information Systems Engineering	English	Wiki systems are becoming an important part of the information system of many organisations and communities. This introduce the issue of the data availability in case of failure, heavy load or off-line access. We propose to replicate wiki pages across a P2P network of wiki engines. We address the problem of consistency of replicated wiki pages in the context of a P2P wiki system. In this paper, we present the architecture and the underlying algorithms of the wooki system. Compared to traditional wikis, Wooki is P2P wiki which scales, delivers better performances and allows off-line access.	0	0
Xanthusbase: adapting Wikipedia principles to a model organism database	Bradley I. Arshinoff Garret Suen Eric M. Just Sohel M. Merchant Warren A. Kibbe Rex L. Chisholm Roy D. Welch		Nucleic Acids Research	English	xanthusBase (http://www.xanthusbase.org) is the official model organism database (MOD) for the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. In many respects, M.xanthus represents the pioneer model organism (MO) for studying the genetic, biochemical, and mechanistic basis of prokaryotic multicellularity, a topic that has garnered considerable attention due to the significance of biofilms in both basic and applied microbiology research. To facilitate its utility, the design of xanthusBase incorporates open-source software, leveraging the cumulative experience made available through the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project, MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org), and dictyBase (http://www.dictybase.org), to create a MOD that is both highly useful and easily navigable. In addition, we have incorporated a unique Wikipedia-style curation model which exploits the internet's inherent interactivity, thus enabling M.xanthus and other myxobacterial researchers to contribute directly toward the ongoing genome annotation.	0	0