Xml tools wikipedia full#
Xml tools wikipedia software#
Xml tools wikipedia free#

WikipediaвЂ™s success has been in spite of the wiki tool used, not because of it. However, as CM tools go, the current crop of wikis is woefully weak. Content and knowledge management have never been about tools and technology theyвЂ™re about people and processes.

Xml tools wikipedia full#

Yet, as the cautionary warnings say, вЂњYour mileage may vary.вЂќ If your corporate wiki is not as full as you would like, donвЂ™t blame the tool. Today it has 5 million registered editors, with 8 million articles in more than 250 languages, and about 2,000 new articles are added every day. Yet, as if by magic, within a month of inception, the new Wikipedia had 1,000 articles 8 months later it passed 10,000. In all of 2000, WalesвЂ™ original Nupedia had produced only 12 articles.

Xml tools wikipedia free#

When Larry Sanger convinced Jimmy Wales in January 2001 to try Ward CunninghamвЂ™s idea of the wiki as the quickest way to collect knowledge, it transformed WalesвЂ™ idea of a free online encyclopedia. WhatвЂ™s wrong with this picture? We have plenty of evidence in its favor. In the idyllic wiki Web 2.0 future, all your mission-critical information will be easily accessible with a quick keyword search. The dream goes like this: Just set up a wiki (really inexpensive because some tools are open source and free), and it will miraculously fill up with all the knowledge, explicit and tacit, that represents the institutional memory, the know-how, the core assets of any organization. The article mentions efforts to use the DITA Storm web-based browser as an interface to a true DITA structured wiki, something that Don Day has been boosting in TC and Editorial Board meetings.ДЇor those wishful thinkers who dream of corporate вЂњknowledge management,вЂќ few tools are more seductive than the enterprise wiki.

I have criticized the simple notion that a wiki just fills up with content in an article in the current issue of EContent Magazine, attached below. But it too has had little community input so far. That's what I did with the CMS Wiki and the DITA Wiki at. My own wiki experience is that someone has to prime the wiki pump with a lot of content. That's what wikis are supposed to be about.

The hope is that the community will contribute content. Our staff and a few volunteers are putting in a lot of work on the wiki, but it is still a bit thin.

Xml tools wikipedia software#

The knowledge base was recently transformed into a Wiki format, using the wiki functions of the Drupal software used at XML.org. I am interested in the use of a wiki as a knowledge base for DITA. We should resist temptations to add tags (except in specializations) and preserve DITA's reputation as a great starter set for structured writing. The Central Texas DUG presentations on Wikis and DITA, and Eric Arnstrong's excellent review of the benefits of structured formats and DITA compared to alternatives like a Wiki, raises the question of whether we are perhaps trying to force DITA into too many places.Д®ric focused in on the reason structured formats are difficult to use - they force you to learn the tagging structure (DITA has about 120 tags, DocBook 800, and XHTML only about 80).