Only a handful of years ago, it was common to hear people laugh at Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it! How could you take it seriously? These days, just as blogs are, wikis are on their way to winning a reputation as serious publishing platforms.
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Leverage Software Adds Wiki Collaboration to its Award-Winning Social Networking Platform Leverage Software, the leading provider of enterprise social networking and online community software, today announced the release of Social Wiki, a full-featured enterprise wiki which integrates seamlessly into the company's on-demand social networking platform.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by volunteers, is to be published as a book in Germany by Random House in a twist for those who believed Wikipedia had all but destoyed printed reference books.
Just a few days before the start of the Web 2.0 Expo conference here in San Francisco next week, Ross Mayfield, President and Co-founder of Socialtext, told CIO last night that the company is adding features to its flagship wiki product, including a dashboard tab that looks something like an iGoogle page for business and a profile feature that brings lightweight social networking to the enterprise.
When President Bush challenged Congress to cut the number and cost of earmarks by half, the administration's budget chiefs turned to their wiki.
eTouch Systems, maker of SamePage, the world's easiest to use enterprise wiki, and on-demand collaboration applications and services leader WebEx, now part of Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), today announced that eTouch will offer SamePage for the WebEx Connect mashup platform and application ecosystem.
Young says she hopes that listeners will use the Spark wiki to offer thoughts about show topics, to contribute questions for guests and generally to interact with her and the rest of the show staff.
Devouard visited the World Economic Forum in Davos, where she told swissinfo about the work of the foundation and plans for the development of the online encyclopedia.
ProjectForum, a wiki-based collaboration application for small and medium workgroups, has been updated to version 6.0, a major new release.
Today the MacEnterprise project will be hosting a live webcast on the Leopard Wiki Server.
The Wikimedia Foundation, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and Kaltura, Inc., a pioneer in Collaborative Media, announced today that the companies have begun a process aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. Under this project, users will be invited to test new functionality that could one day enable Wikipedia articles to include collaboratively created video, audio, animations, and slideshows as well as text and images.
"Librarians are not engaging with the academies," said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "If libraries throughout the world formed regional groups and made an effort, they would be playing a positive role within Wikipedia. The job of the librarian is about highlighting the weaknesses and strengths of information."
MindTouch has launched a new version of DekiWiki, its enterprise wiki platform.
Yesterday, Jimmy Wales blew into town to address a huge audience of information professionals at the Online Information conference. Wales, in case you don't know, co-founded Wikipedia which is intended to become "the sum of all human knowledge". Written for the people by the people. And hugely popular, to boot.
Canadian journalist Sue Gardner has been appointed executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs the online, user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, the foundation announced Monday.
Wales, who in 2004 also co-founded Wikia Inc., a for-profit wiki company in San Mateo, is philosophical about the process. In an interview with The Chronicle this week, Wales - who commutes between his family home in Florida and an apartment in the city - shared his plans for Wikipedia, which include testing a program to help protect the site from repeated vandalism.
Zedomax Network has just launched a new paid online encyclopedia called QuarterWiki.com where users can buy a page for just a quarter. Users can use their pages to write their own definition of words in the encyclopedia or simply use it to promote their website, e-store, blog or any other products or services.
http://quarterwiki.com/Main-Page
MindTouch, an open source wiki platform company, unveiled its new wiki hosting service for creating mashups and composite applications.
Online training institution Search Engine College, has today launched Search Engine Wiki (BETA), the world's first vertical wiki dedicated to search engines and search engine marketing.
"We are much better off in the long run by trusting each other," says Jimmy Wales, founder of free-for-all internet encyclopedia Wikipedia.
A project that could save students and teachers copious amounts of Aspirin has found its way onto the World Wide Web. The project, titled Veropedia, hopes to improve on Wikipedia, while avoiding the vandalism problems associated with that website.
The result was a database of 34.4 million edits made to the English version of Wikipedia between February 2002 and August 2007, and the 187,529 organizations that made them. Within those totals were 206 organizations using the dot-gov domain to make 74,131 edits in Wikipedia. Put another way, governments account for one-tenth of 1 percent of the organizations and two-tenths of 1 percent of the total edits during that time.
Nearly every educator is looking for opportunities to embrace Web 2.0 technology in the classroom, however teachers have struggled to incorporate Web 2.0 services that use advertising to monetize. Wetpaint (www.wetpaint.com), the consumer-friendly wiki for collaborating and publishing online, today announced it will offer ad-free, no cost wikis to qualified educators so easy online collaboration can extend into any classroom.
What's a Wiki world? Read the November/December issue of Selling Power to discover how the free, online encyclopedia "for every person on the planet" known as Wikipedia was created and launched.
The Canadian firm CourseForum Technologies, which specialises in collaborative software, has launched a new version of its wiki-based application ProjectForum.
In several weeks Atlassian will release the Sharepoint Connector, which will integrate its Confluence product with Microsoft's Sharepoint, enabling search across the two products, content sharing and embedding of applications.
