IKI IS A HAWAIIAN WORD THAT REfers to being quick. Leuf and Cunningham (2001) define a Wiki as “a freely expandable collection of interlinked Web pages, a hypertext system for storing and modifying information — a database where each page is easily editable by any user with a forms-capable Web browser client” (p. 14). The authors also differentiate between the terms Wiki (uppercase W) and wiki:...

Wikis are fully editable websites; any user can read or add content to a wiki site. This functionality means that wikis are an excellent tool for collaboration in an online environment. This paper presents wikis as a useful tool for facilitating online education. Basic wiki functionality is outlined and different wikis are reviewed to highlight the features that make them a valuable technology ...

What are the requirements for the Wiki engines to be used collaborative learning activities? Can any generalpurpose engine be used? Or is there a niche for an educationally oriented crop of wiki engines? Do these educational wikis need to be integrated within the LMS to frame the collaborative activity within the walls of the virtual classroom, or is it preferable to have an external engine? Th...

Information Technology is now pervasive in Higher Education institutions and developments in IT are changing the technological landscape at Universities. A recent phenomenon shaping such changes is the use of Web 2.0 tools in a pedagogical context. These tools are often included into a University’s IT mix without full appreciation of the possible negative emotions student users may have towards...

Semantic wikis have been introduced for collaborative authoring of ontologies as well as for annotating wiki content with semantic meta data. In this paper, we introduce a different approach for a semantic wiki based on an ontology meta model customized especially for the deployment within a wiki. For optimal usability clientside technologies have been combined with a simple semantic query lang...

This paper presents a semantic wiki prototype application named SHAWN that allows structuring concepts within a wiki environment. To entice the use of Semantic Web technologies applications need to offer both high usability and instant gratification. Concept creation is exceptionally easy in SHAWN since metadata as well as plain text is entered within a single edit box on each wiki page in a se...

This paper is a survey about semantic wikis and the use of semantic Web technologies by wiki engines. First, it presents the main notions related to semantic wikis. Then, twelve active semantic wiki projects are compared, according to various viewpoints such as knowledge representation philosophy, use of semantic Web standards and system usability. Finally, a formal concept analysis approach is...

Semantic wikis have been introduced for collaborative authoring of ontologies as well as for annotating wiki content with semantic meta data. In this paper, we introduce a different approach for a semantic wiki based on an ontology meta model customized especially for the deployment within a wiki. For optimal usability clientside technologies have been combined with a simple semantic query lang...

In this paper we describe our approaches taken in the Link-the-Wiki track. We submitted runs for all three Link-the-Wiki tasks: Link-the-Wiki, Link-Te-Ara, and Link-Te-Ara-to-the-Wiki. To generate outgoing links for each task, our link discovery system employs the top ranking algorithms from previous LTW tracks and a hybrid method derived from them. For incoming links, we used traditional infor...