Planet Kiwi

Congratulations! Tomorrow, the KiWi project is turning one year! Time to look back and see what we have achieved, and I dare say it is quite much, partly more than we expected: we have finalised the first Open Source (pre)release of the KiWi core system, we have learned a lot about the properties and challenges [...]

Tomorrow is KiWi’s first birthday. And today is the day of KiWi’s first Open Source Release! The KiWi core system is a flexible platform for building different kinds of semantic social software applications on top (currently the Semantic Wiki and the TagIT application). It provides all the core services required in such applications, like editing [...]

Open Source (Pre-)Release. This week has again been a busy week, as we are proceeding towards the first Open Source pre-release of the KiWi system, which we plan to upload next week or in the first week of March. Most of what we have been doing has been related to fixing bugs and improving the [...]

KiWi’s New Clothes. As you might be aware of, we had a KiWi user interface meeting two weeks ago where Josef Holy (Sun), Werner Moser (SRFG) and I were working together on redesigning the KiWi user interface and user interaction. The result has been a set of storyboard sketches that showed various screens of the [...]

As promised, I try to give a regular summary over the activities that have been taking place lately in the project. Please note that I can only report on things that you have told me …
Enabling Technologies (WP2)
Personalisation: Peter and Fred have developed some new ideas on different recommendation widgets which they will integrate into [...]

Interessant für die Sozial-Media-Forschung ist ein Projekt von Tsila Hassine, in dem die soziale Dynamik der “neutral point of view policy“, kurz NPOV, von Wikipedia untersucht werden. Enthält ein Wikipedia-Artikel einen Verweis auf die NPOV-Regelung, so ist die Aufmerksamkeit auf ihn gelenkt, was oft zu “Editionskriege” führt. Artikel dazu konnte ich allerdings nicht finden. Kann [...]