Wiki-templates: adding structure support to wikis on demand

  • Authors:
  • Anja Haake;Stephan Lukosch;Till Schümmer

  • Affiliations:
  • FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany;FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany;FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 international symposium on Wikis
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of wiki templates that allows end-users to determine the structure and appearance of a wiki page. In particular, this better supports editing of structured wiki pages. Wiki templates may be adapted (defined and redefined) by end-users. They may be applied if found helpful, but need not to be used, thus maintaining the simple wiki editing way. In addition, we introduce a methodology to reuse wiki templates among different wiki instances. We show how wiki templates have been successfully used in real-world applications in our CURE wiki engine.