Wiki Interoperability
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Survey
How do users want to use Wikis? Is interoperability a factor?
View the survey (password required)
Folks to approach to spread survey, interview:
- Socialtext (done)
- Wikia
- Atlassian
- PBWiki
- WikiTravel
- WikiSpaces
- JotSpot
- WetPaint
- MindChange
- WikiHow
- Open Source Wiki users
Interviews
Interviewed
- Howard Rheingold
- Angela Beesley (Wikia)
- Ward Cunningham
- Laurence Parry
- Karolina Hutor
- Alain Desilets
- Christoph Sauer (Wiki Creole)
- Andrea Forte
- Jochen Rich
- Evan Prodromou (Wiki Travel)
Interview Candidates
- Sunir Shah (MeatballWiki)
- Mark Dilley (AboutUs)
- Peter Thoeny (Twiki)
- Andreas Gohr (DokuWiki)
- Brion Vibber (MediaWiki)
- Janne Jalkanen (JSPWiki)
- Alex Schroeder (OddMuse)
- Raymond King (AboutUs)
- Jack Herrick (WikiHow)
- Jeremy Ruston (TiddlyWiki)
- Thomas Waldmann (MoinMoin)
- Greg Wolff
- Others?
See Dan Bricklin's podcast with Toby Redshaw on Motorola's Wiki use.
Script
Basic themes:
- What are the opportunities for interoperability?
- What are the bottlenecks for achieving interoperability?
Behavior (overlap w/ survey):
- How often do you use Wikis?
- How many Wikis do you use? Which ones? How frequently do others use these?
- Do you move data from one Wiki to another?
- What's your biggest pain, especially when it comes to multiple Wikis?
- What do you like best about Wikis?
Wiki folks:
- Interop priorities?
- Interop challenges?
- How will we get there?
- Who else should I talk to?
Wiki developer themes:
- Are Wiki developers competitive about other Wikis?
Interoperability Framework
- Markup (WikiCreole)
- Interchange
- WikiByte
- APIs
- Amo
- Unified Recent Changes format
- Distributed usage (offline, version control model, etc.)
- distributed search
- Ambient Awareness
- Identity (OpenID)
- Content licenses
- WikiOhana (motivation for interoperability)
Use Cases
- Migration
- WYSIWYG
- offline usage
- increased overall usage
