WorkingWiki: a MediaWiki-based platform for collaborative research
Lee Worden

TL;DR
WorkingWiki transforms MediaWiki into a collaborative platform for research, enabling real-time teamwork on code, documents, and publications through UNIX command integration and customizable makefiles.
Contribution
It introduces a modular extension that turns MediaWiki into a versatile environment for collaborative research on code and LaTeX documents, enhancing wiki capabilities.
Findings
Supports collaboration on multiple programming languages.
Facilitates easy LaTeX document editing and publication.
Flexible, customizable processing via makefiles.
Abstract
WorkingWiki is a software extension for the popular MediaWiki platform that makes a wiki into a powerful environment for collaborating on publication-quality manuscripts and software projects. Developed in Jonathan Dushoff's theoretical biology lab at McMaster University and available as free software, it allows wiki users to work together on anything that can be done by using UNIX commands to transform textual "source code" into output. Researchers can use it to collaborate on programs written in R, python, C, or any other language, and there are special features to support easy work on LaTeX documents. It develops the potential of the wiki medium to serve as a combination collaborative text editor, development environment, revision control system, and publishing platform. Its potential uses are open-ended - its processing is controlled by makefiles that are straightforward to…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWikis in Education and Collaboration · Scientific Computing and Data Management · Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
