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Personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

As you might know, I am most fascinated by the potential of wikis as communication and knowledge tools for enterprises, especially research labs and engineering consultancies and companies. When I once helped designing and building both a rapid manufacturing process and machinery from scratch and to establish the new and small company in a nascent market, everything we did was new, and what we found out was stored in heads, emails and cabinets. Today, things could get narrated into a wiki right from the beginning. It would be a think and knowledge pool of manifold value of the old-school-version - and a rock solid foundation for future inner growth of the company, successful evolution of products and services and better monitoring of markets and competitors.

Ross Mayfield of Socialtext will address this topic in his keynote at Wikimania, The First International Wikimedia Conference, which starts in Frankfurt today (Website, Blog, Press Mirror, Program). As I am unable to attend this conference, it will be interesting for me to see what attendees and speakers will put on their blogs and wikis. Rather as a note to self, these sessions sound interesting:

• Wiki usage: Case studies on wiki use within Enterprises for project communication
• Wiki usage: The Information Behavior of Wikipedia Users
• Wiki usage: Workshop - Analysing and visualizing Wikipedia
• Coding/Mediawiki: Extending and embedding the MediaWiki framework and Workshop - Extending and Customizing MediaWiki
• Coding/API: DavWiki - the next step of WikiRPCInterfaces?
• Coding/API: On Wikiproxy, auto-classification of documents, and unusual applications of wikipedia
• Coding/Geospatial: Geo-coding of articles and images
• Coding/Semanticweb: WikiOnt: An Ontology for Describing and Exchanging Wiki Articles

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