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

Research Article

A Comparison of Optimistic Approaches to Collaborative Editing of Wiki Pages

  • @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.