The WikiSym 2008 proceedings are now available on the WikiSym server at

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings.

These pages contain the accepted research papers and more. They will be provided through the ACM Digital Library as soon as we have gathered the workshop reports. For the time being, please help yourself at ws2008/proceedings!

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Hello! We’re Osmosoft, the open source arm of BT. We’re a small team of techies that love open source software. We mainly work on the TiddlyWiki open source project.

A TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki – including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, [...]

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One of the hottest topics at this year’s WikiSym 2008 will be application wikis.
To put it simply, an application wiki allows its users to create… applications. Why is that exciting ? Because it means users can mix both structured and unstructured freely over the same platform. Take product sheets : you might want to [...]

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SAPO was born in 1995 at Universidade de Aveiro
becoming, some years later, Portugal’s leading portal, providing
internet access and web services to millions of users every day.
For years, SAPO is using wikis
internally to organize and share information among it’s teams members.
Wikis are great collaboration tools when integrated in the developing
cycle of a project for documenting purposes. [...]

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You can track what’s happening on twitter by following the hashtag #wikisym08. Try this URL: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wikisym+OR+%23wikisym08

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Hi everyone!
The evening just before WikiSym starts, we are holding a Wiki house party, open to all: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/Wiki_House_Party
If you need to call someone, try talking in the WikiSym Skype Chat Channel (if for any reason you have difficulty getting in add Martin (mrjcleaver on skype)). You are welcome to phone Martin Cleaver on his temporary [...]

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Holger Junghanns, SAP AG
In 2007, I was a member of a project team that was responsible for the implementation of a wiki within the Product & Technology Unit (PTU) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) organization of SAP AG. The goal of this project was to promote knowledge transfer among the different teams involved in the development [...]

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Daniel Ingalls is one of the most important participants of this WikiSym edition. He’s participating as an invited speaker and we interviewed him just in time to get you some information on his career.
1. When has you career in Software Development started?
Around 1970.
2. Considering what you invented, do you think that you have revolutioned computer [...]

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Martin Cleaver. Chair, Demos & Posters. Blended Perspectives, Canada
I’m pleased to remind you of the great posters and demos for you this year, these get formal air-time during some tasty Portuguese “refreshments” on late Monday afternoon.
Our poster presenters, listed in the program, (and most of which took advantage of their right to be entered into [...]

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OpenSpace is the energy of a good coffee break, with the flexible structure of wiki, where last minute, new creative ideas that otherwise wouldn’t be on the WikiSym program to be worked on by all types of wiki enthusiasts, in a format that allows deeper consideration of an issue than can be achieved with a [...]

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