On Feb 15, 2014 9:05 PM, "James Salsman" jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:

Please see "WikiWinWin: A Wiki Based System Together with Win Win Method for Collaborative Requirements Negotiation" by Ledan Huang, Xiaobo Wu and Yangu Zhang (2013) http://www.atlantis-press.com/php/download_paper.php?id=10885

Does someone want to do a Mediawiki extension for Google Summer of Code or the like to implement a riff on that?

It's applicable to more than just software development, and the software development it talks about includes collaborative documentation. I suspect that it is very similar to general accuracy maintenance automation, and it still works better with a human participant driving the process schedule (to the extent that human is skilled at it) but there are some very attractive opportunities for e.g. Wikidata and maintenance bot integration down the road if it works out.

Best regards, James Salsman

The paper you linked is kind of useless for actual details - http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2008/3075/00/30750024-abs.htm... much better.

Personally i'm not very familar with requirement management methodology, but the system they describe does sound like an interesting approach. However it is primarilaly a social system for discussing things. Certain technology does make it slicker, but you could still use this method right now on the wiki if you felt like it. If some group thinks the "winwin" method would be useful, perhaps they should try it out before we build something, see if they like it.

I have no idea what this has to do with "Wikidata and maintenance bot integration" (beyond requirements gathering for such things) or automation of accuracy maintinance. What is essentially of interest in the paper is the description of a framework for creating concensuss between humans with differing goals. Given we mostly run on concensuss, such a framework may be useful to people.

-bawolff