Multiple companies are already social software enabled. Enterprise wikis are the most frequently used type. The best-known example of a wiki is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Using Wikipedia as an example, multiple companies establish an internal wiki encyclopedia. There are also other purposes for which enterprise wikis can be used. Some companies use the wiki as a news portal, discussion ...

Annotating the function of all human genes is a critical, yet formidable, challenge. Current gene annotation efforts focus on centralized curation resources, but it is increasingly clear that this approach does not scale with the rapid growth of the biomedical literature. The Gene Wiki utilizes an alternative and complementary model based on the principle of community intelligence. Directly int...

Increasing interactions between learners and instructors is critical to help learners attain learning outcomes in online learning. Wikis, among a suite of Web 2.0 emerging learning technologies, are suggested to be effective in enhancing online interactions by mediating collaborative knowledge development processes. To enable online instructors to confidently utilize wikis to enhance online int...

DBpedia crystallized most of the concepts of the Semantic Web using simple mappings to convert Wikipedia articles (i.e., infoboxes and tables) to RDF data. This “semantic view” of wiki content has rapidly become the focal point of the Linked Open Data cloud, but its impact on the original Wikipedia source is limited. In particular, little attention has been paid to the benefits that the semanti...

Digital medical education has proliferated in the past decade. Advantages include the ability to offer learners flexibility in time and location of their learning, economies of scale, and the personalization of education. This proliferation coincides with the advent of web 2.0 technologies, such as social networks and collaborative content hubs (eg, wikis). The ease-of-use, availability, flexib...

We describe our participation in the INEX 2008 Entity Ranking and Link-the-Wiki tracks. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approaches to these tasks. For the Link-the-Wiki track, we also report on the results and findings so far.

media2mult is an extension for PmWiki developed at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. It provides functionality for embedding various media files and script languages in wiki pages. Furthermore media2mult comes with a cross media publishing component that allows to convert arbitrary wiki page sequences to print-oriented formats like PDF. This article gives an overview over the offered extens...

Voluntary participation in a corporate Wiki can be low due to personal priority preference. But high participation of professionals is necessary to enable group innovation through a Wiki. We present a tool that offers rewards to committed users, and triggers a sportive competition that fosters the creativity process through knowledge exchange.