Mass collaboration
What are the most important volunteer mass collaboration projects in the history of humankind?

Wikipedia

Wikis: what for?
Wikipedia Documentation Collaboration > flexible, simple freeform project management Corporate Intranet or extranet Great for unstructured content, can be structured with categories and tags Effective document workflow

Why a wiki?
Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish and you feed them for a lifetime. Add that knowledge to a wiki And countless people will be able to learn on their own And share their knowledge And many will feed their families

Because email doesn't scale

What happens when...
...you apply the Wiki Way to software development for over 10 years with over 250 code contributors? ...dogfooding is a core value? ...everyone collaborates on an integrated code base?

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

Tightly Integrated Knowledge Infrastructure
Combination CMS + Wiki + Groupware
Free source software (LGPL)
1 000 000+ downloads so far
Translated into 40+ languages
1000+ pages of documentation
Runs on standard PHP/MySQL making web hosting easy and inexpensive
Over a million lines of code (including 3rd party libraries)
A new code commit every two hours
"This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh." source: http://www.ohloh.net/p/tikiwiki/factoids/
But mostly...

Hundreds of built-in features

Action log Alert Articles & Submissions Backlinks Backup Banner Blog Bookmark Browser Compatibility Cache Calendar Category Charts Chat Comment Communication Center Compression (gzip) Contact Address book Contact us Content template Contribution Cookie Copyright Custom Home (and Group Home Page) Date and Time Debugger Console Directory (of hyperlinks) Documentation (Help System) DogFood Drawing Dynamic Content Dynamic Variable External Authentication FAQ Featured links File Gallery Forum Friendship Network (Community) Game Gmap Google maps Group Help System Hotword HTML Page i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish) Image Gallery Install Integrator Interaction Inter-User Messages InterTiki JS Calendar Karma Live Support Login Lost edit protection Mail-in Map with Mapserver Menu Meta Tag Mini-Calendar Mobile Tiki and Voice Tiki Mods Module Mootools Multimedia MultiTiki MyTiki Newsletter Newsreader Notepad OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD) PDF Performance Speed / Load Permission Poll Profile Manager Quicktags Quiz Rating Registration RSS Score Search Engine Friendly Search Security Semantic links Shadowbox Shoutbox Site Identity Slideshow Smarty Template Smiley Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA) Spellcheck Spreadsheet Stats Survey System log Tags Task Tell a Friend + Social Bookmarking TikiTests Theme Trackers TRIM User Administration User Files User Menu Watch WebHelp Webmail Wiki 3D Wiki History, page rename, etc Wiki plugins extends basic syntax Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc Wiki structure (book and table of content) Workflow (Galaxia Workflow engine) WYSIWYCA WYSIWYG XMLRPC

Over 1000 settings/options in the admin panel!
As far as we know, the Open Source Web application with the most built-in features. Other popular apps have a different model: small core + loads of functionality in 3rd party add-ons.

But...

No hunting around to find the best 3rd party module
No needing to re-install 3rd party modules at every upgrade, hoping they all still work!
Because, in Tiki, everything is built-in and developers collaborate on and extend features, instead of just cooperating around a core (when they are not just outright competing...). And upgrades are easy!
Do you have two wiki pages for the same thing? No. Why would it be so for features?
More later about the model, let's describe some features!

Permissions & groups
Users can be in any number of groups Groups can be included in groups Registration system Over 200 permissions, which can be: System-wide (global) by item (object) by category (workspaces)

Wiki engine
Powerful wiki syntax Powerful version history and diff engine Book and table of content Email notification of changes Advanced plugins Advanced translation synchronization

Tracker & form generator & reports
Create custom application Bug tracker, application forms, contact forms, etc. Can create reports in wiki pages Multilingual Can link to other trackers 20+ field types: text field, text area, checkbox, numeric field, drop down, radio buttons, user selector, date and time, image, category, email, auto-increment, Google Maps, computed field, attachment, etc.

Calendar
Several calendars iCal Recurring events RSS feeds Distinct permissions

Blog & news articles
Several blogs Topics Tags & categories RSS feeds Permissions Can use wiki syntax

Discussion forums
Threaded or flat forums Mailing list integration Can use wiki syntax File Attachment Email notification of replies

File & image galleries
Hierarchical galleries Check-in/Check-out/lock Categories for files Permissions Watch (notification of change by email)

Multilingual
Translated to 35+ languages Wiki has awesome i18n change tracking Wiki-translation.com

Profiles.Tiki.org

Value of a free source project
- Beyond code: the community and the experience
- Combining the different features, producing new benefits never imagined by the authors
- How to share this knowledge?
Profiles to configure your Tiki
- On wiki pages (collaborative, version history, etc.)
- Can be used not just at install, but at any time and can be combined
- Not just for settings, but also for data
- Since there is no extra code, can be designed for very specific, long tail uses
We can have hundreds of profiles for an out-of-the-box experience, with a single code-base!

Tiki Use Cases

Online community / association / club / special interest group / NGO (A)
International, multilingual project (A)
Advanced portal / news site (A)
Corporate web site (A)
Groupware Wiki / Corporate Wiki / Corporate Intranet / Team project (A)
Public Wiki (A)
Group knowledge base / Knowledge Management (KM) / institutional memory (A)
Product or software documentation and support (A)
Customer extranet (A)
Multilingual wiki (A)

A is better, Ratings factoring in the necessary effort to configure.

Tiki Use Cases (part 2)

Shopping Cart & payments
WebDAV support
Spreadsheet upgraded to jQuery
jQueryS5 Slideshow
Searchable admin panels (!)
Token Access
MySQL replication
Advanced Rating & Metrics Dashboard
Performance enhancements (front & back-end)

Release date: April 2010 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki5

Tiki Use Cases (part 3)

Event Management, Conference Management & planning (C)
Blog (one author) (C)
Document Management System (DMS) (C)
SourceForge / Gforge type site (C)
E-commerce / Shopping cart (C)
E-democracy (C)
E-learning / Learning Management System (LMS) / classroom / course management system (CMS) (D)
Customer / Contact / Constituent relationship management (CRM) (D)
Bibliography (D)
Traditional Project Management (PM) with Gantt charts, etc (D)
Social networking / Job board / Dating site / hospitality exchange / Car Pooling (D)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) / Accounting (D)

E is worst, Ratings factoring in the necessary effort to configure.

Major enhancements in 3

Webservices
Semantic wiki links and mind mapping
Tiki Remote Instance Manager (TRIM) (for wikifarms)
Revamp of install and upgrade scripts
Profiles for easy configuration
JQuery added as experimental
Zend Framework
Has been picked as Long Term Support (LTS)

Release date: May 2009 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki3

Major enhancements in 4

Google Summer of Code 2009
- Workspaces & Perspectives
- Kaltura integration (Collaborative video editing)
- MediaWiki convertor
JQuery added as default
Revamp of edit interface
PDO as default
GroupMail
Memcached
Multi-domain support

Release date: November 2009 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki4

Major enhancements in 5

Shopping Cart & payments
WebDAV support
Spreadsheet upgraded to jQuery
jQueryS5 Slideshow
Searchable admin panels (!)
Token Access
MySQL replication
Advanced Rating & Metrics Dashboard
Performance enhancements (front & back-end)

Release date: April 2010 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki5

Major enhancements in 6

HTML5 (Canvas, etc)
Integration with BigBlueButton (Chat/Voice/video/screensharing)
Improved CRM and Shopping Cart (started in Tiki5)
Smarty 3?

What do you want to see?

http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap
Release date: October 2010 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki6

The Tiki model

Wiki community
Wiki way participation to the code
All-in-one codebase
Inherent synchronized releases
Lots of features, but no duplication
Dogfood
Scheduled releases (twice per year)

tiki.org/Model

Benefits & challenges

Offers benefits
- Tons of features, without duplication, excellent code re-use and code review, more collaboration, tight integration, easy upgrades, excellent interaction between features, etc.
- Permits huge changes between versions because we don't have to worry about breaking 3rd party extensions.
But does bring challenges
- Huge code base to maintain.
- Admin panels
  - hundreds of features
  - with a total of over 1000 settings/options! (we had to add a search!)
- Learning curve: 1000+ pages of documentation
- What should be sensible defaults?

3 things...
...I want you to remember about this talk in 6 months The Wiki Way is not just for Wikipedia Tiki is an all-in-one solution The Tiki community eats its own DogFood, and welcomes you.

Questions?

Tiki.org
Wiki-translation.com

Doubts about the Tiki model?
- Tiki.org/Model
But mostly:
- Tiki.org/Download

Thank you

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What I'll talk about

Mass collaboration

Wikipedia

Wikis: what for?

Why a wiki?

Because email doesn't scale

What happens when...

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

Hundreds of built-in features

But...

Permissions & groups

Wiki engine

Tracker & form generator & reports

Calendar

Blog & news articles

Discussion forums

File & image galleries

Multilingual