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> > Are the Swikis growing? What needs to happen to make them more useful? It
> > would be simple to provide quick access from Squeak to a meta-swiki search
> > (like the translate and spell check choices already on the text 
>menu). Would
> > that be enough?
>
>I think one important piece is WebDav like support so that we can make
>native Squeak tools first class Swiki editors. Another important piece is
>some sort of caching/mirroring/dare I say it "p2p" protocol for
>Swikis. Personal vs. collabortive (i.e., MySwiki notes, which I may or may
>not share some of, vs. my controbutions to the Swiki) Swiki notes would be
>nice.
>
>I'll note that some of the SCAN/Gossip/Collage design seems applicable to
>more general info sharing.

Do you mean growing in popularity?  I think so.  The PWS list has 149 
members, and when I do a search for "Swiki" on a search engine, I'm 
always finding new swikis out there.  Here at Georgia Tech, it's also 
getting bigger.  The central computing administration is now setting 
up a Swiki server so that we don't have to support every teacher who 
wants one.  We're doing a lot of research on the Swikis -- published 
papers and TRs are at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/Papers (and 
we've got some great new data that we're just writing up).  And 
Je77's 1.0 ComSwiki release is due anyday now...

Mark

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Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
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