Genome sequencing has been democratized by second-generation technologies, and even small labs can sequence metazoan genomes now. In this article, we describe '959 Nematode Genomes'--a community-curated semantic wiki to coordinate the sequencing efforts of individual labs to collectively sequence 959 genomes spanning the phylum Nematoda. The main goal of the wiki is to track sequencing projects...

In this paper, we present ENWiC (EduNuggets Wiki Crawler), a framework for intelligent visualization of Wikis. In recent years, e-learning has emerged as an appealing alternative to traditional teaching. The effectiveness of e-Learning is depended upon the sharing of information on the web, which makes the web a vast library of information that students and instructors can utilize for education...

BACKGROUND Wikis are knowledge translation tools that could help health professionals implement best practices in acute care. Little is known about the factors influencing professionals' use of wikis. OBJECTIVES To identify and compare the beliefs of emergency physicians (EPs) and allied health professionals (AHPs) about using a wiki-based reminder that promotes evidence-based care for trauma...

ESSAY Suggested citation for this article: Crespo R. Virtual community health promotion. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online]. 2007 Jul [date cited]. Available from: The " wiki " and open-source phenomena are transforming the way knowledge is generated and shared around the world. The word wiki is from the Hawaiian term wiki-wiki, which means to do something quickly (1). The term became prominent b...

There seems to be an inherent tension between wiki affordances—open boundaries, unconstrained editing, and transparency—and traditional knowledge management (KM) routines used in firms. The objective of this study is to investigate how users respond to these tensions during adoption of wiki technology at the workplace. The theoretical lens of sociomateriality highlights the manner in which rout...

More and more information that is considered for digital long-term preservation is generated by Web 2.0 applications like wikis, blogs or social networking tools. However, there is little support for the preservation of these data today. Currently they are preserved like regular Web sites without taking the flexible, lightweight and mostly graphbased data models of the underlying Web 2.0 applic...

Title of thesis: ANALYZING THE WIKISPHERE: TOOLS AND METHODS FOR WIKI RESEARCH Jeffrey Stuckman, Master of Science, 2010 Thesis directed by: Professor James Purtilo Department of Computer Science We present tools and techniques that facilitate wiki research and an analysis of wikis found on the internet. We developed WikiCrawler, a tool that downloads and analyzes wikis. With this tool, we buil...

INTRODUCTION Wikipedia is emerging as the dominant global knowledge repository. Recently, large numbers of Wikipedia users have collaborated to produce more structured information in the online encyclopedia. For example, the information found in tables, categories and infoboxes. Infoboxes contain key-value pairs, manually appended to articles based on the unstructured text therein. The wiki con...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and examine the major issues and challenges that impact the implementation of wikis as KMS. Wikis have been referred to as next generation KMS, providing an alternative to traditional knowledge management systems by addressing many of their limitations. However, research shows that there are cases where wikis have failed to achieve this potenti...

This paper introduces an implementation of a closed group distributed anonymous wiki based on a Dining Cryptographer (DC) network. We argue that such a wiki application particularly suits the properties of a DC network, e.g., performance is less important, and broadcast communication is needed by default.