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Wave+Wiki.
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Thomas
WaveWiki
An online collaboration environment combining wave and wiki features.
Introduction
In 1994 Ward Cunningham developed the first wiki software. Ever since, many
amazing online collaboration projects have been powered by wiki softwares.
But in reality, the vast majority of people attracted to the wiki world only
read the content available on wiki webpages. Most people didn't contribute
with new content to the wiki sites they visited.
In 2010 Google may change this scenario by launching Wave, an open source
communication and collaboration protocol that combines e-mail, chat, social
networking and wiki.
Wave is a very user-friendly tool and any Internet user will be able to use
it. It is certainly the disruptive innovation that will impact the online
collaboration world by enabling many more individuals to collaboratively
share knowledge online.
Wikipedia's case
Wikipedia, with more than 330M unique visitors every month, is certainly the
most notorious case of a collaborative project using wiki software.
Although "anyone can edit" Wikipedia, less than 0.05% of its visitors
contribute with new content to it.
MediaWiki, the software used by Wikipedia since 2001, has incorporated a
number of incremental innovations developed by a very active community of
people around the globe. Nonetheless, most of Wikipedia's editors and almost
all potential new contributor still complain about its usability.
Objective
The WaveWiki initiative aims to combine the learnings and the experience of
the wiki world with the disruptive innovation that the wave protocol will
bring to online collaboration.
Instead of adding wave's features to any existing wiki software, the
initiative could incorporate all wiki features to wave's open-source
protocol. The believe is that this new protocol will be adopted very fast by
Internet users willing to collaborate online, including those that today use
wiki softwares.
If existing free knowledge projects like Wikipedia incorporate the new
wave+wiki protocol, there would be a strong increase in the number of people
contributing to the "world where any person can freely share in the sum of
all human knowledge", envisioned by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit
organization behind Wikipedia.
Timeline
In July 2009, an initial financial support was given by Google to Thomas
Maaswinckel and a group of developers from the Netherlands. They agreed to
integrate a small number of wiki features to the wave protocol until the end
of September, when Google will extend the preview of GoogleWave to 100,000
users.
In August 2009, many developers and free knowledge activists attending
Wikimania Conference in Argentina decided to join the initiative. Most of
them can now have access to the preview of GoogleWave and check its
features.
Another round of financial support is under negotiation with several
organizations and individuals. The resources would enable developers to
integrate more wiki features to the wave protocol until the end of the year.
The idea is that the wave protocol should be launched to the public already
with most of the wiki features required by the wiki world.