The document describes SAVEMLAK, a wiki-based collaborative relief project created after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It provides details on:
- The origins and growth of SAVEMLAK, which started as individual wikis (e.g. savelibrary) focused on damaged libraries, museums, archives and other institutions and integrated them into a single wiki site.
- The contents and usage statistics of the SAVEMLAK wiki, which now includes over 30,000 pages created by 300 editors tracking information on damaged institutions and relief efforts.
- Keys to the success of the wiki approach, which involved addressing fears about the wiki system, descriptive rules and co-editing through a
The document describes SAVEMLAK, a wiki-based collaborative relief project created after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It provides details on:
- The origins and growth of SAVEMLAK, which started as individual wikis (e.g. savelibrary) focused on damaged libraries, museums, archives and other institutions and integrated them into a single wiki site.
- The contents and usage statistics of the SAVEMLAK wiki, which now includes over 30,000 pages created by 300 editors tracking information on damaged institutions and relief efforts.
- Keys to the success of the wiki approach, which involved addressing fears about the wiki system, descriptive rules and co-editing through a