Presentation for my PhD defense (5th Feb 2013). You can find my thesis here www.onekin.org/gorka.puente. Some slides are animated, so you can download it and check it out.

1. Improving
Creation, Maintenance and Contribution
in Wikis with
Domain Specific Languages
Gorka Puente García
Supervisor: Prof. Oscar Díaz
5th Feb. 2013

2. It all started…

3. Nov 2007
www.flickr.com/photos/53370644@N06/ 3

4. 4

5. www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/ 5

6. Introduction

7. Describe a wiki!
“
Simplest online database
”
that could possibly work
Ward Cunningham
7

8. Ward…
Still don’t know
what a wiki is
Define it yourself!
Ward Cunningham
8

9. Simple
Open
Observable
Organic
9

10. Domains of use 10

11. 1.Open communities
Other domains
2. E-government
3. Education
4. Companies
11

12. Open communities
E.g., Wikipedia
400 m
visitors/month
285 languages
100,000 hits/s
6th Alexa rank + 17 million articles
12

13. E-government
E.g., Future Melbourne
public consultation periods 2,500 views/day
4,170,000 inhabitants
131 registered 13

14. Education
E.g., Columbia University
1,123 registered users Since 2006
8,389 pages

15. Companies
E.g., IBM Bluepedia
1,5 years
authors
1,076 German
794 English
+400,000 employees
Collaboration
Knowledge
creation and retention
15

16. z
Learning
organization
Company
Open
community
16

17. “61% use wikis in
their intranets”
Social Intranet Study, Dec 2011
80
60
47% 49% 61%
40
20
0
2009
2010 17
2011

18. “ Wikis will have the greatest
impact on workplace
collaboration ”
Forrester TechRadar, 2008
18
www.vectoropenstock.com

19. Wikis were
born open

20. Open wikis
Mismatch
Corporate wikis

21. Who
new user roles
communities
employees
user definition and management

22. encyclopaedia
What for
wiki is support
projects
an end
wiki is a
means
decision-making

23. no schedule
How
open
milestones
access control
responsibility
tight schedules

24. What in
empty
regulations
documents
templates
reports

25. Mismatch impacts in…
1. Wiki Initialization
2. Wiki Refactoring
3. Wiki Customization
25

26. Outline

27. Outline

28. Outline

29. Outline
1. Introduction

30. Outline
1. Introduction

31. Outline
1. Introduction

32. Outline
1. Introduction

33. 2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

34. 2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

35. 2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

36. 2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

37. 2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

38. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

39. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

40. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

41. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
Outline
1. Introduction

42. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
4. Wiki Customization
Outline
1. Introduction

43. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
4. Wiki Customization
Outline
1. Introduction

44. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
4. Wiki Customization
Outline
1. Introduction

45. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
4. Wiki Customization
Outline
1. Introduction

46. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
4. Wiki Customization
Outline
1. Introduction 5. Conclusions

47. 1. Why
2. How
2. Wiki Initialization 3. Demo
4. Evaluation
Outline
1. Introduction

48. Wiki Initialization

49. Wiki Initialization
organization chart
project
milestones
documents
restrictions
Why

50. Wiki Initialization
organization chart
project
milestones
documents
restrictions
50

51. Upfront investment
51

52. Technical
knowledge
52

53. How can existing corporate strategies
permeate wiki construction?
Research question 53

54. Abstractions Domain knowledge
problem domain embedded
DSL Natural
notation
Enhance
Productivity How 54

55. Promote user Mirror Organizational
engagement practices
Engage
management
55

57. Promote user Mirror Organizational
engagement practices
Engage
management
57

58. Configuration
Structure

65. Demo
time!
65

66. Evaluation WSL expressiveness:
case studies + feedback

67. areas already known tips needed
communication
Using Wiki Technology to Support Student Engagement: Lessons from the Trenches
Melissa Cole, 2009

68. track of changes discussions Stakeholders
Using Wikis in Software Development, Panagiotis Louridas, 2006 collaboration

69. documentation events
Customer
communication
www.eveonline.com

70. Robert Vogel
Hallo Welt! GmbH, Germany
Eric Bruyndonckx
HEIG-VD - School of Business
and Engineering, Switzerland
70

71. 3. Wiki Refactoring
1. Why
2. Wiki Initialization 2. How
3. Demo
4. Evaluation
Outline
1. Introduction

72. Wiki Refactoring

73. Wiki Refactoring
Manual
maintenance
Structure
evolution
Organic
growth
Why

74. Wiki Refactoring
Manual
maintenance
Structure
evolution
Organic
growth
74

75. Refactoring in MediaWiki is hard
Operation Clicks Talk page Summary Redirect
section page
Create 3
Categorize 2
Uncategorize
Rename article 2  
Drop 2
Rename 5  
category
Split 6  
Merge 9   
75
Move section 5

76. 76

77. Follow good Coherent strategies
Reliable operations
practices
77

78. Keep readership
and authorship
Notices, redirects,
traces, etc.
78

79. How can existing wiki engines improve
their refactoring affordances?
Research question 79

80. Abstractions Domain knowledge
problem domain embedded
DSL Natural
notation
Enhance
Productivity How 80

81. Fulfill good practices
Global
Understandability
Productivity
81

82. Demo
time!
82

83. Evaluation of WikiWhirl
refactoring affordance:
controlled experiment

84. Global Questions about structure
understandability and semantic content
14
14 questions
12
12,5
10
8
6
Correct
6
4,5 Answered
4
2 Answered
0 questions
Correct
MediaWiki
WikiWhirl
84

85. Effectiveness Points if following good
practices
85

86. Effectiveness Points if following good
practices
Points
23
20
15 14,67
10 MediaWiki
5 WikiWhirl
0
Points
MediaWiki
WikiWhirl
Structure refactoring 86

87. Effectiveness Points if following good
practices
Points
40
36
30
20,83
20
MediaWiki
10 WikiWhirl
0
Points
MediaWiki
WikiWhirl
Content refactoring 87

88. Productivity Task completion time

89. 20
20
MediaWiki
15
12,17 WikiWhirl
10
5
0
Minutes
MediaWiki
WikiWhirl
Comprehension 89

90. 20 18,17
MediaWiki
15
10 9,67 WikiWhirl
5
0
Minutes
MediaWiki
WikiWhirl
Structure refactoring

91. 20 17,17 MediaWiki
15
WikiWhirl
10 9,71
5
0
Minutes
MediaWiki
WikiWhirl
Content refactoring 91

92. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
4. Wiki Customization
Outline
1. Why
2. How
1. Introduction 3. Demo
4. Evaluation

93. Wiki Customization

94. Wiki Customization
Add local
content
Annotations Why 94

95. Personalized exploration
Vs
consensus
95

96. Public scrutiny
96

97. Wiki standards
barrier
97

98. How can wikis’ content be adapted
for personal purposes?
Research question 98

99. Abstractions Domain knowledge
problem domain embedded
DSL Natural
notation
Enhance
Productivity How 99

100. Modular
Shareable
As easy
as wikitext
100

101. Demo
time!
101

102. Evaluation:
not yet…

103. 3. Wiki Refactoring
2. Wiki Initialization
4. Wiki Customization
Outline
1. Introduction 5. Conclusions

104. Conclusions

105. User and
management
engagement
Alignment with
organizational
practices
WSL
Wiki initialization
To conclude 105

106. Global
understandability
Productivity
Follow
refactoring good
practices
WikiWhirl
Wiki refactoring
To conclude 106

107. Wiki-like
design
Personal knowledge
management
Engage
participation
Wiki customization
To conclude 107

108. 108

109. …and it finishes

110. puente.gorka in gmail.com
@gorkapuente