Talk:SemWiki2008

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[edit] Wiki-centric vs. "social semantics"

I'd rather go for a "wiki-centric" workshop in the sense that it does not have a bias on social networks. Wikis can also be excellent authoring and browsing tools for a single user, and it's always the single user who takes the decision to become active and contribute something to a wiki, even if the wiki is run by a large community. Moreover, there was already a quite successful workshop on semantic social networks at ESWC 2007. That does not mean that I don't want any social semantics; quite the contrary, I'm sure that there are new insights of how to utilize the social semantics of wiki communities. --Christoph Lange 15:07, 20 November 2007 (CET)

I think it is more interesting to use wiki for collaborative writing than in single authoring.. I suggest to add a topic about social aspect ... So we can have more papers submitted to the workshop .. -Hala Skaf-Molli 11:28, 22 November 2007 (CET)

I strongly agree that we should add this to the topic list. I was just against the idea to have a workshop that only focuses on the social aspects. And by "non-social" topics I do not only mean wikis from the point of view of a single author, but also other things like e.g. knowledge representation, navigation, storage, … --Christoph Lange 11:35, 23 November 2007 (CET)