A comparison of optimistic approaches to collaborative editing of Wiki pages

—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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: COLCOM
• Authors: Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, Gérald Oster, Pascal Molli, Michèle Cart, Jean Ferrié, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Pierre Sutra, Marc Shapiro, Lamia Benmouffok, Jean-Michel Busca, Rachid Guerraoui
• Keywords: COLCOM 2007, Collaborative Editing Systems, Operational Transformation Approach, Well-known Centralised Mediawiki