Standard wiki features

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Needs to be merged with wiki features

This are requirements for all wiki engines. In order to deal also with semantic technologies, a list of standard semantic wiki features needs to be created.

[edit] What is a Wiki:

Todo: Align with http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples . Don't be too technical.

• Version management: offers only a very limited support for collaboration.
• A content syntax which is easy to learn, write and read (hence _not_ HTML)
• Easy syntax for creating of links between articles (by title of page)
• Creation of new articles by just linking to them (Agile Content creation, describe on demand)
• No installation of specific tools needed (just a standard webbrowser) --> For your Boss: Low Total Cost of Ownership

Bottom line: Support collaborative editing by a "save" environment

[edit] What is not a Wiki

[edit] Future / Advanced Wiki Features

• automatic link detection as you type to avoid unnecessary redundancies
• allowing/disallowing links to a resource (has been requested by many users in our company)
• advanced change notification that goes beyond what exists today, examples:
  • automatically notify the user if a page related to the page he currently edits is changed
  • see live what other users are currently changing
  • merging of different user revisions (as e.g. the compare editor in Eclipse)

See also Category:Wiki.