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Design and implementation of wiki content transformations and refactorings

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WikiSym '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration

Article No.: 2, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/2491055.2491057

Published: 05 August 2013 Publication History

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The organic growth of wikis requires constant attention by contributors who are willing to patrol the wiki and improve its content structure. However, most wikis still only offer textual editing and even wikis which offer WYSIWYG editing do not assist the user in restructuring the wiki. Therefore, "gardening" a wiki is a tedious and error-prone task. One of the main obstacles to assisted restructuring of wikis is the underlying content model which prohibits automatic transformations of the content. Most wikis use either a purely textual representation of content or rely on the representational HTML format. To allow rigorous definitions of transformations we use and extend a Wiki Object Model. With the Wiki Object Model installed we present a catalog of transformations and refactorings that helps users to easily and consistently evolve the content and structure of a wiki. Furthermore we propose XSLT as language for transformation specification and provide working examples of selected transformations to demonstrate that the Wiki Object Model and the transformation framework are well designed. We believe that our contribution significantly simplifies wiki "gardening" by introducing the means of effortless restructuring of articles and groups of articles. It furthermore provides an easily extensible foundation for wiki content transformations.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/WETICE.2015.19

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WikiSym '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration

August 2013

248 pages

ISBN:9781450318525

DOI:10.1145/2491055

General Chairs:
Ademar Aguiar
Universidade do Porto
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Dirk Riehle
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

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Ruvo GSantone A(2015)Equivalence-Based Selection of Best-Fit Models to Support Wiki DesignProceedings of the 2015 IEEE 24th International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises10.1109/WETICE.2015.19(204-209)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/WETICE.2015.19

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