A Comparison of Optimistic Approaches to Collaborative Editing of Wiki Pages

Claudia-Lavinia Ignat; Gerald Oster; Pascal Molli; Michelle Cart; Jean Ferrié; Anne-Marie Kermarrec; Pierre Sutra; Marc Shapiro; Lamia Benmouffok; Jean-Michel Busca; Rachid Guerraoui

3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin

Research Article

A Comparison of Optimistic Approaches to Collaborative Editing of Wiki Pages

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553878,
    author={Claudia-Lavinia Ignat and Gerald Oster and Pascal Molli and Michelle Cart and Jean Ferri\^{e} and Anne-Marie Kermarrec and Pierre Sutra and Marc Shapiro and Lamia Benmouffok and Jean-Michel Busca and Rachid Guerraoui},
    title={A Comparison of Optimistic Approaches to Collaborative Editing of Wiki Pages},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
    year={2008},
    month={6},
    keywords={Art  Broadcasting  Collaboration  Collaborative tools  Collaborative work  Convergence  Delay  Explosives  Peer to peer computing  Technological innovation},
    doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553878}
}

Claudia-Lavinia Ignat
Gerald Oster
Pascal Molli
Michelle Cart
Jean Ferrié
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Pierre Sutra
Marc Shapiro
Lamia Benmouffok
Jean-Michel Busca
Rachid Guerraoui
Year: 2008
A Comparison of Optimistic Approaches to Collaborative Editing of Wiki Pages
COLLABORATECOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553878

Claudia-Lavinia Ignat¹^,*, Gerald Oster¹^,*, Pascal Molli¹^,*, Michelle Cart²^,*, Jean Ferrié²^,*, Anne-Marie Kermarrec³^,*, Pierre Sutra⁴^,*, Marc Shapiro⁴, Lamia Benmouffok⁴, Jean-Michel Busca⁴, Rachid Guerraoui⁵^,*

1: LORIA, INRIA (Nancy-Grand Est)
2: LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2
3: IRISA, INRIA (Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique)
4: LIP6, INRIA (Paris-Rocquencourt)
5: EPFL

*Contact email: claudia.ignat@loria.fr, oster@loria.fr, molli@loria.fr, cart@lirmm.fr, ferrie@lirmm.fr, anne-marie.kermarrec@irisa.fr, pierre.sutra@lip6.fr, rachid.guerraoui@epfl.ch

Abstract

Wikis, a popular tool for sharing knowledge, are basically collaborative editing systems. However, existing wiki systems offer limited support for co-operative authoring, and they do not scale well, because they are based on a centralised architecture. This paper compares the well-known centralised MediaWiki system with several peer-to-peer approaches to editing of wiki pages: an operational transformation approach (MOT2), a commutativity-oriented approach (WOOTO) and a conflict resolution approach (ACF). We evaluate and compare them, according to a number of qualitative and quantitative metrics.

Keywords: Art Broadcasting Collaboration Collaborative tools Collaborative work Convergence Delay Explosives Peer to peer computing Technological innovation

Published: 2008-06-27
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-20

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553878