Wikis are increasingly being used in world-wide, intranet and even in personal settings. Unfortunately, current wikis are data islands: people can read and edit them, but machines can only send around text strings without structure. Wiki migration, publishing from one wiki to another one and free choice of syntax hold back broader wiki usage. We define a wiki interchange format (WIF) that allow...

Enterprise Search engines are strong in locating existing documents and information in an organization while Wikis are designed to capture new information in a lightweight and collaborative fashion. Conversely, Wikis are rather bad in locating information (especially from external documents) while Enterprise Search does not address the provision of new information and socializing around informa...

The open source movement is founded on the concept of democratising knowledge to freely collaborate and exchange information at the grass-roots level. As Wikis are philosophically grounded in this movement, the use of corporate Wikis in the collaborative creation and operation of knowledge management systems holds considerable potential. However, the impact of using corporate Wikis in the busin...

Collaborative websites, or wikis, are being used in the classroom to recruit user attention and to disseminate information [1). These wikis place a heavy emphasis on text, while generally neglecting graphics. Little to no research has examined the impact of this textual approach. This paper examines the use of graphics and rule systems as motivating tools in academic wikis. It reports the resul...

Wikis can be considered as public domain knowledge sharing system. They provide opportunity for those who may not have the privilege to publish their thoughts through the traditional methods. They are one of the fastest growing systems of online encyclopaedia. In this study, we consider the importance of wikis as a way of creating, sharing and improving public knowledge. We identify some of the...

This discussion document concerns the challenges to assessments of reliability posed by wikis and the potential for language processing techniques for aiding readers to decide whether to trust particular text. 1 Wikis and the trust problem Wikis, especially open wikis, pose new challenges for readers in deciding whether information is trustworthy. An article in a wikipedia may be generally well...

Authoring support for semantic annotations represent the wiki way of the Semantic Web, ultimately leading to the wiki version of the Semantic Web's eternal dilemma: why should authors correctly annotate their content? The obvious solution is to make the ratio between the needed effort and the acquired advantages as small as possible. Two are, at least, the specificities that set wikis apart fro...

One of the promises of web-based education is to help students take control of their learning pace as the basic requirement of language learning is being life-long. The purpose of the present study was to find out which of the e-tools -- weblogs, wikis, or podcasts -- can better help EFL learners excel in their writing skill. To this end, 156 Iranian sophomore students majoring in English and s...

0. Introduction..................................................................................................................................1 1. Taxonomies and Enterprise Search..............................................................................................1 2. Knowledge Management...................................................................................................