2008-03-01: Wiki - Wikimedia by the Guru
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Brion Vibber Google TechTalks April 28, 2006. Brion Vibber has worked on MediaWiki and Wikipedia's servers for four years, watching over its frightening growth from thousands to millions of pages, from
- Blogs are in temoral dimension - monologue with comments
- Wiki is in the special environment; materials are distributed in idea space (5th dim?); physical space; people space
- Each entity is a separate page, constantly updated; conversation is in the content;
- Wiki is also distributed in people space; working o different parts; or working on the same parts; not just publishing at each other but with each other
- Space, time, what about (Einsteins) Spacetime?
- Time is important in wiki-changes; recent changes view shows whats going on in the wiki; older versions in History (every version, every page) lots of chages, long history
- 'Space' is also very large 'area' to cover. So how to deal with this firehouse? Need to compress time and space. For transmission we GZip; For humans we filter (search), compression in idea space; shows subset of interest;
- Watch list or RSS feed - Compression in wiki of content that You are interested in. It only gives you pages that you know about/interested in.
- New interesting pages?? Future keyword-based? Similarity? Types of changes?
- Monitoring Temporal changes are maintenance tools, need more tools
- Discussion page associated with each article - like a forum - need to understand space and time -bring new interesting discussion to the top-make old articles, disc obsolete,
- Web Services API
- Focus on maintenance tools, for mashups, content is coming
[edit] WikiSurgery?
For surgeons the opportunity is clear, if we utilise every individual’s knowledge set built up over years of lectures, exams, training and dealing with thousands of patients, it can benefit everyone. But wikisurgery would be more than just a depot of surgical knowledge, not only just articles about facts but also articles about controversy, debates, with none of the usual editorial limits on space. Indeed it would become a record of surgical thought, experience and progression.
