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== Peer-to-peer wiki research == | == Peer-to-peer wiki research == | ||
Academic researchers attacked the merging problem head on. A team in Nancy, France, built Wooki, a peer-to-peer wiki presented at the WISE 2007 conference by | Academic researchers attacked the merging problem head on. A team in Nancy, France, built Wooki, a peer-to-peer wiki presented at the WISE 2007 conference by Stéphane Weiss, Pascal Urso, and Pascal Molli. Wooki replicated pages across a changing network of sites and used the WOOT algorithm so that every site would converge on the same text even when edits arrived in different orders. The same research community later built Distributed Semantic MediaWiki (DSMW), an extension that let Semantic MediaWiki servers publish feeds of patches, subscribe to each other, and merge concurrent edits with the Logoot algorithm. DSMW is one of the clearest real precedents for [[P2P MediaWiki|P2P MediaWiki]]. | ||
'''Lesson:''' convergence of text can be solved mathematically, but research prototypes rarely gain the community, hosting, and moderation needed to become living public wikis. | '''Lesson:''' convergence of text can be solved mathematically, but research prototypes rarely gain the community, hosting, and moderation needed to become living public wikis. | ||