DEALING WITH CONFLICTING MODIFICATIONS IN A WIKI

Stephan Lukosch, Andrea Leisen

2008

Abstract

Collaborative web-based applications support users when creating and sharing information. Wikis are prominent examples for that kind of applications. Wikis, like e.g. Wikipedia (Wikipedia, 2007), attract loads of users that modify its content. Normally, wikis do not employ any mechanisms to avoid parallel modification of the same page. As result, conflicting changes can occur. Most wikis record all versions of a page to allow users to review recent changes. However, just recording all versions does not guarantee that conflicting modifications are reflected in the most recent version of a page. In this paper, we identify the requirements for efficiently dealing with conflicting modifications and present a web-based tool which allows to compare and merge different versions of a wiki page.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lukosch S. and Leisen A. (2008). DEALING WITH CONFLICTING MODIFICATIONS IN A WIKI . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 5-15. DOI: 10.5220/0001515600050015

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist08,
author={Stephan Lukosch and Andrea Leisen},
title={DEALING WITH CONFLICTING MODIFICATIONS IN A WIKI},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={5-15},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001515600050015},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - DEALING WITH CONFLICTING MODIFICATIONS IN A WIKI
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Lukosch S.
AU - Leisen A.
PY - 2008
SP - 5
EP - 15
DO - 10.5220/0001515600050015