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Presentation for 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. WikiSym 2011. Mountain View, California October 3-5, 2011
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Wiki Scaffolding: Helping Organizations to Set Up Wikis
ONEKIN Research GroupUniversity of the Basque Country (Spain)
Oct 3-5th, 2011
Oscar Díaz and Gorka Puente
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What?
Why?
How?
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WHAT IS WIKI SCAFFOLDING?
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What is a wiki scaffolding?
4What
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Corporate wikis
What
A wiki framed by an organization
This organization can be
A company
A department
A university
Not all wikis are corporate wikis (e.g., Wikipedia)
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Corporate wikis
49%
What
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Corporate frame: wiki impact
The corporate frame:• Organigram• Permissions• Templates• Terminology
Might need to be available as soon as the wiki is set up
“This frame” becomes the wiki scaffolding
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Corporate frame: wiki scaffolding
Structural concerns
Communication means
Permissionneeds
A wiki installation where some categories, templates, permissions, etc are initialized at the outset to mimic the corporate background
What
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Corporate frame: wiki scaffolding
Virtual organization Wiki (e.g., Wikipedia)
Physical organization Wiki (e.g., IBM Wiki)
Wiki Scaffolding: nothing Wiki Scaffolding: organigrams,documentation, restrictions of the
hosting organization
What
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WHY WIKI SCAFFOLDING?
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Why wiki scaffolding (WS)?
11Why
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Wiki scaffolding requires …
…organizational knowledge• Organigrams• Internal documents• Terminology
…technical knowledge• Installing wiki engine• Installing extensions• Access control mechanisms• …
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HOW WIKI SCAFFOLDING?
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What is the rabbit in the hat?
Domain-Specific Languages
• “A programming language that offers expressive power focused on a particular problem domain”
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Why DSLs?
Enhance quality, productivity, maintainability and portability
Allow domain experts understand, validate and develop program themselves
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Wiki Scaffolding Language (WSL) (pronounced “whistle”)
Aim: Wiki Scaffolding
Target audience: non programmers
Built on top of FreeMind (mind-mapping tool)
WSL expressions are mind maps
How
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FreeMind
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FreeMind is a popular mind mapping tool
How
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FreeMind
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Process
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User specifies WS as a FreeMind map
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Wiki Scaffolding for a Software project
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User checks the map
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User exports the map
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WSLexpressiveness
Example
Conclusion
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WSL expressiveness
The WS captures the CORPORATE FRAME as long as it impacts the wiki operation
The corporate frame:
Organigram
Permissions
Templates
Terminology
WSL expressiveness
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Glossary
Organizational glossary to classify and locate wiki content -> wiki categories
WSL expressiveness
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Documents
Organizational documents -> wiki articles
WSL expressiveness
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Guidelines and boilerplate text
Minutes, reports, deliverables -> wiki templates
WSL expressiveness
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Events
Milestones, deadlines -> wiki events
WSL expressiveness
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Awareness
Track changes -> RSS and email
WSL expressiveness
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Discussions
Discussions -> talk pages
WSL expressiveness
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Organigram
WSL expressiveness
Organization’s organigram -> wiki users and groups
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Access restrictions
Restrictions -> wiki group permissions
WSL expressiveness
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Presentation
Presentation -> wiki skins
WSL expressiveness
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EXAMPLE
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Example: a wiki for software documentation Rationales:
the scattering of stakeholders,
the need for collaboration and tracking,
iterative manners
Example
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FreeMind example
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Wiki Scaffolding for a Software project
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WSL generation
Example
Generated Wiki Index
Wiki Scaffolding for a Purchase project
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CONCLUSIONS
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Conclusions
Wiki Scaffolding:
Captures corp features that percolate wiki initialization
Wiki Scaffolding Language (WSL):
A graphical DSL for WS specification
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Conclusions
Very soon WSL as FreeMind official plugin code in freemind.sf.net
More examples in the proceedings
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