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Using wiki as a multi-mode publishing platform

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John W. MaxwellAuthors Info & Claims

SIGDOC '07: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

Pages 196 - 200

https://doi.org/10.1145/1297144.1297185

Published: 22 October 2007 Publication History

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The common problem plaguing almost all software systems today is brittleness. This paper describes a variety of explorations of the use of wiki software as the basis of publication- and content-management systems, and makes a case for taking simplicity as a virtue in systems design.

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Using wiki as a multi-mode publishing platform
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Publishing

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SIGDOC '07: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

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DOI:10.1145/1297144

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Ribaud VSaliou PLaporte C(2013)Un assistant de mémoire pour les très petits projets d’ingénierie du logicielAssisting the Memory of Very Small Software Engineering ProjectsÉtudes de communication10.4000/edc.2631(67-86)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2013
https://doi.org/10.4000/edc.2631
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Munson SAguiar ABernstein M(2008)Motivating and enabling organizational memory with a workgroup wikiProceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Wikis10.1145/1822258.1822283(1-5)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2008
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