RichWiki

A rich-client wiki-frontend.

Currently working on this are:

• A master thesis from a student of User:AdemarAguiar (contact aaguiar[at]fe.up.pt)
• An intern at FZI (contact: voelkel[at]fzi.de, romberg[you-know-what]fzi.de): RichWiki at FZI
• Mikhail Kotelnikov (contact: mikhail[at]kotelnikov.com)

[edit] Who is doing what?

In order to avoid duplicate efforts, please list what you did/plan to do

• All three will be based on Eclipse.

[edit] SemanticPad

SemanticPad is a wiki-like semantic editor based on the Eclipse infrastructure. It contains two complementary implementations: the first one is a "headless" web-based semantic wiki and the second one is a rich client application. Both applications are based on:

• OSGi plugins with extensive usage of OSGi Components (see Declarative Service)
• Both applications use WikiModel (for the initial version of the WikiModel - see http://www.wikimodel.org)
• The application logicis is expressed in the form of a finite state machine (FSM)
• Both applications use Eclipse workspaces to store information locally; Projects are associated with specific Eclipse Natures and Builders used to re-index modified resources/files.
• Semantic search is provided by a service-based RDF API (the first implementation is based on Sesame2)

The web-based application is in beta-stage: we are working on the integration of all parts for web-based applications and we started the development a rich-client editor (early stage). This editor will be based on the WikiModel. -- MikhailKotelnikov

[edit] Wish list

If you are not already a contributor, please list hre what you would like to have in a rich client?

[edit] Related Work

[edit] Open-source Rich Client Wiki

• EclipseWiki (Java) - uses a built-in wiki, no external wiki
• TimTam (Java) - Eclipse plugin working with Confluence repositories
• Plog4U (Java) - Eclipse plug-in for MediaWiki
• WikidPad (Python) - now open source!
• SemPerWiki (Ruby) - semantic personal wiki
• WikiWriter (Python)
• mwjed (Java) - the mediawiki plugin for jEdit lets you edit pages on mediawiki servers
• SimpleWikiMode (C?) - emacs plugin
• FlexWikiPad (.Net) - a rich client for FlexWiki
• ZuluPad Zulupad (language?) Personal wiki Open source sourceforge with online sync

[edit] Commercial Rich Client Wikis

• Polis - Swing-based rich client application working with a remote; See also:
  • Pebble J2EE/Spring/JSP-based blog engine; BSD license
  • Blog record "Advantages of the Rich Client Wiki"
• CUEcards