MuSwiki

Overview

A MuSwiki is a Swiki-like system which uses Morphic objects instead of HTML. The key features of a MuSwiki are:

Of course, the use of Morphic objects instead of HTML code.
Pages look the same on anyone's browser.
Any user may update any page in the system.
Users are prevented from updating a page at the same time.
When one user updates a page, all other users viewing the same page are shown the new version.
Content may contain arbitrary Smalltalk code behind the scenes!

It is being worked on by Lex Spoon and Mark Guzdial.

A pilot study was described at CSCL '99: MuSwikis: A Graphical Collaboration System.

ScreenShot

Here's an example MuSwiki page, shown within a browser. In addition to having hyperlinks and graphic content, note that this page has active elements: the time-of-day is correct and ticking, and the waveform can be played as a sound and modified.

Installation

Load the following changesets:

Also recommended is http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakers/QuietSmartRefs.cs, which takes out all the messages from SmartRefStream file-in and file-out.

After loading the above changesets, you can start a new MuSwiki server as follows:

s _ MuSwikiServer on: 'MuSwikiPages'.
s startListeningOnPort: 9090.
s openAdminMorph.

And once you have a server running, you can create a browser to log into it as follows:

MuSwikiBrowser new openInMorphic.

Last modified 4 April 2006 at 1:21 pm by dorn