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How cool would it be to fork articles, a la Github. - Jason Priem
(cf. Gitizendium, Git-backed wikis)

A federation of wikis

• Interwiki links
• Open standards allowing aggregation
• MediaWiki Extensions, e.g. for multimedia or feeds (alternative to multimedia in PDF)

Wiki-like environments

• Overview of the evolution of wikis and wiki-like environments

MediaWiki plugin for Wordpress

Etherpad

Google Docs

ScribTeX

Buddypress

GitHub

Git-backed wikis

Kete

WikkaWiki

• OOo Document Converter

• editable XML-based workflows

Non-wiki environments

• Stand-alone papers optimized for e-readers

Misses the collaborative aspect; not open

• RockMelt - a browser built for social networking
• Scholarly HTML - trying to adapt the vocabulary of the web to the needs of scholars