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academic productivity: a Better Wiki

February 19, 2007 by WDW

The academic productivity blog has news about a project to build a better wiki. I’m a believer in the power of collaborative software to improve group work. Wikis work well for shared knowledgebases—such as Wikipedia—but not so well for day-to-day collaboration. Hopefully we’ll see some big improvements, both to usability and to the underlying metaphors.

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» O’Reilly Radar > NSF Looking for a Better Wiki
. Have you used wikis as a mean of collaborative work with colleagues? Have you been frustrated by the current implementation, thinking that some ideas are just hard to put into wiki format?

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