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Wikis have proven to be a valuable tool fo … Wikis have proven to be a valuable tool for collaboration and content generation on the web. Simple semantics and ease-of-use make wiki systems well suited for meeting many emerging region needs in the areas of education, collaboration and local content generation. Despite their usefulness, current wiki software does not work well in the network environments found in emerging regions. For example, it is common to have long-lasting network partitions due to cost, power and poor connectivity. Network partitions make a traditional centralized wiki architecture unusable due to the unavailability of the central server. Existing solutions towards addressing connectivity problems include web-caching proxies and snapshot distribution. While proxies and snapshots allow wiki data to be read while disconnected, they prevent users from contributing updates back to the wiki.rom contributing updates back to the wiki.
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| Abstractsub
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Wikis have proven to be a valuable tool fo … Wikis have proven to be a valuable tool for collaboration and content generation on the web. Simple semantics and ease-of-use make wiki systems well suited for meeting many emerging region needs in the areas of education, collaboration and local content generation. Despite their usefulness, current wiki software does not work well in the network environments found in emerging regions. For example, it is common to have long-lasting network partitions due to cost, power and poor connectivity. Network partitions make a traditional centralized wiki architecture unusable due to the unavailability of the central server. Existing solutions towards addressing connectivity problems include web-caching proxies and snapshot distribution. While proxies and snapshots allow wiki data to be read while disconnected, they prevent users from contributing updates back to the wiki.rom contributing updates back to the wiki.
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misc +
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5984638 +
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| Doi
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10.1145/1367497.1367624 +
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Bowei Du +
, Eric A. Brewer +
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| Has remote mirror
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http://www.ra.ethz.ch/cdstore/www2008/www2008.org/papers/pdf/p945-du4A.pdf +
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English +
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0 +
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0 +
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| Pages
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945-952 +
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| Title
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Dtwiki: a disconnection and intermittency tolerant wiki +
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unknown +
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| Year
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2008 +
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| Creation dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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28 January 2012 20:25:22 +
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Publications without published in parameter +
, Publications without keywords parameter +
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, Publications without archive mirror parameter +
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, Publications +
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6 February 2012 20:50:25 +
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| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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Publication +
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| DateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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2008 +
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