Among the more pleasant surprises in Denmark is the presence of Open Spaces, a conference symbiote that provides an open forum for quality discussion. When I saw Gerard Muller pacing around in front of the big blank boards on the wall, I recognized it as an unconference which (for me) originated recently as part of [...]
Radeox Wiki Render Engine
Stephan Schmidt discussed some different strategies for creating wiki render engines, which translate wiki markup into HTML for display. Even with WYSIWYG editors, wiki render engines will still be needed to propagate wiki content. They can be engineered to be more intelligent and versatile.
There are three kinds of render engines: Custom parser (loops out of [...]
Translation the Wiki Way
The need for multilingual wiki content is growing. The means to maintain translations for multiple languages and ever-changing content, however, is left to humans and clumsy interfaces. A project by Alain Desilets, Lucas Gonzalez, Sebastien Paquet and Marta Stojanovic for the Institute for Information Technology (IIT) of the National Research Council (NRC) recognizes that not [...]
WikiSym 2006
The opening talks of WikiSym 2006 have begun in Odense, Denmark. The proceedings have now been published. In theory, they would have come in handy last week, but in practice I had way to much stuff for my available time to prepare anything. Angela Beesley (Wikimedia Foundation) was the keynote speaker, talking about “How and [...]