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| By markup-free, auto-linking Wiki, I mean a Wiki that has the traditional auto-linking features, except that there are no such things as [[Collab:WikiWords]] or internal link markup (sometimes called a [[Free Link]]). Instead, this Wiki would rely on an ontology to detect words that should be linked.
| | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. See [[Eugene Eric Kim]] for one of her poems. |
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| For example, if "collaborative tools" were a concept you wanted in your Wiki, instead of creating the equivalent [[Collab:WikiWord]] or [[Free Link]], you would define this as a term in your ontology. The next time "collaborative tools" were mentioned on a Wiki page, the Wiki would create the appropriate link.
| | Lisa's favorite is [The Journey]. I also like Lisa's blog post, [http://truthlovebeauty.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/fear-of-beauty/ "Fear of beauty,"] where she references Oliver. |
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| This has the following benefits:
| | See [[Wikipedia:Mary Oliver]] for more. |
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| * When you explicitly add a term to your ontology, that term essentially becomes a first-class concept in your Wiki. The way it's done right now, you would have to track every instance of that term in the Wiki and convert it manually into a [[Collab:WikiWord]].
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| * You could add synonyms and other relationships, and the Wiki would link it in a way that makes sense. For example, you could add "tools for collaboration" and define that as a synonym to "collaborative tools." The Wiki could then either link all references to "tools for collaboration" to the page entitled, "collaborative tools," or it could create a new page and create a synonym link between them. You could also define "collaborative tool" as a singular version of "collaborative tools," and have the same linking effect as described above.
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| == Acknowledgements ==
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| These ideas came up again while I was having coffee with [http://dorai.wordpress.com/ Dorai Thodla] (August 7, 2004), which inspired me to write them down. The "collaborative tools"/"tools for collaboration" example is Dorai's.
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| There are two tools, one of which predates Wikis, that were initial experiments to this effect. The first is [[Ken Shan]]'s [http://rodimus.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ken/h huhebi]. The other is [[Collab:Chris Dent]]'s [http://www.burningchrome.com/~cdent/index.cgi?word=1 Warp].
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| Many conversations with [[Collab:Jack Park]] about ontologies helped prime my thinking in this direction.
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