Evolutionary Knowledge - Scientific Wiki
Image via Wikipedia The most famous of all Wikis is Wikipedia and with its success has brought a good number of people who try to take advantage of the open nature of the forum. In turn, the Wikipedia administrators have become even more dictatorial in the management of the mother of all wikis. Beyond the more locked down nature of the ‘pedia, the creation of content - or documenting of knowledge - by its distributed authorship becomes a less useful resource, in so far that one article can have a multitude of authors that span the spectrum of expertise. Dr. Robert Hoffman feels he has the next generation - excuse the pun - in evolutionary knowledge, what he is calling Mememoir. Get it? Meme Moir.
Based on a powerful authorship tracking technology, this next generation wiki links every word to its corresponding author. This way readers can always know their sources and authors receive due credit.
Dr. Hoffman hopes that clearly identifying who authors which passages will make wikis a more accepted method for capturing and distribution knowledge. Rather than just talking about a new “conceptual” method, the mememoir is first being instantiated with WikiGenes - Evolutionary Knowledge.
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