Wiki Software Engine

A Wiki Software Engine is a Software Engine that powers a Wiki System that can create, edit and run a Wiki.

• AKA: Wiki Software Package.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) rely on a Web Browser Rendering Engine to transform documents written in Wiki Markup Language into the web browser.
  • It can be used to create Wikilinks between Wikipages.
  • It can be part of a Collaboration Software System, a Knowledge Management System, or a Content Management System.
• Example(s):
  • IkeWiki,
  • MediaWiki,
  • OntoWiki,
  • Semantic Wiki,
  • TikiWiki,
  • UseModWiki.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Wiki Hosting Service.
  • an IPython Notebook Server.
• See: Wiki System, Web Server Software Distribution, Server Software Program, Collaborative Software, Web Application, Web Content Management System.

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References

2020a

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software Retrieved:2020-1-26.
  • Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or wiki application) is collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows users to create and collaboratively edit "pages" or entries via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web application that runs on one or more web servers. The content, including previous revisions, is usually stored in either a file system or a database. Wikis are a type of web content management system, and the most commonly supported off-the-shelf software that web hosting facilities offer.

    There are dozens of actively maintained wiki engines. They vary in the platforms they run on, the programming language they were developed in, whether they are open source or proprietary, their support for natural language characters and conventions, and their assumptions about technical versus social control of editing.

2020b

• (Melli et al., 2020) ⇒ Gabor Melli, Abdelrhman Eldallal, Bassim Lazem, and Olga Moreira. (2020). “GM-RKB WikiText Error Correction Task and Baselines.”. In: Proceedings of LREC 2020 (LREC-2020).
  • QUOTE: Similar to the creation of websites in the early days of the Web; when websites content was crafted with HTML code by hand than transformed by a browser rendering engine into webpages, wikis content is created using WikiText (Dohrn & Riehle, 2011) written and edited predominantly by humans than parsed and rendered by a wiki engine (Dohrn & Riehle, 2011, Junghans et. al, 2008). WikiText is a simplified markup language that facilitates annotation of text documents. To create an internal link between annotated words (concept mentions) and a target wiki pages in Mediawiki markup, the editor simply needs to use double square brackets ("[[" and "]]"). For instance,
    A [[Character-Level Seq2Seq Training Algorithm|character-level seq2seq algorithm]] is a [[seq2seq algorithm]] that is a [[character-level NNet algorithm]]."

    tells the wiki engine to create a wikilink between the concept mentions character-level seq2seq algorithm, seq2seq algorithm, and character-level NNet algorithm to the corresponding wiki entries.

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