When and how to develop domain-specific languages
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Using Wikis in Software Development
IEEE Software
A wiki instance in the enterprise: opportunities, concerns and reality
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches
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Using Wikis to Support Constructivist Learning: A Case Study in University Education Settings
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
WikiVet: building a community of practice to support a self-sustaining wiki for veterinary education
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Factors impeding Wiki use in the enterprise: a case study
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Wikis at work: success factors and challenges for sustainability of enterprise Wikis
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Wiki refactoring as mind map reshaping
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
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Wikis are main exponents of collaborative development by user communities. This community may be created around the wiki itself (e.g., community of contributors in Wikipedia) or already exist (e.g., company employees in corporate wikis). In the latter case, the wiki is not created in a vacuum but as part of the information ecosystem of the hosting organization. As any other Information System resource, wiki success highly depends on the interplay of technology, work practice and the organization. Thus, wiki contributions should be framed along the concerns already in use in the hosting organization in terms of glossaries, schedules, policies, organigrams and the like. The question is then, how can corporate strategies permeate wiki construction while preserving wiki openness and accessibility? We advocate for the use of ''Wiki Scaffoldings'', i.e., a wiki installation that is provided at the onset to mimic these corporate concerns: categories, users, templates, articles initialized with boilerplate text, are all introduced in the wiki before any contribution is made. To retain wikis' friendliness and engage layman participation, we propose scaffoldings to be described as mind maps. Mind maps are next ''exported'' as wiki installations. We show the feasibility of the approach introducing a Wiki Scaffolding Language (WSL). WSL is realized as a plugin for FreeMind, a popular tool for mind mapping. Finally, we validate the expressiveness of WSL in four case studies. WSL is available for download.