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Changes in Wikis have to be reviewed – this does not only apply to open and public setups, but to closed sites as well. While dealing with spam and vandalism is unnecessary in closed wikis, the semantic correctness of a change still has to be verified by other participants. Moreover, page edits may imply changes to real-world conditions people have to or want to keep track of.

Array Yahoo! recently (eight months ago) released big parts of their GeoPlanet data. We successfully integrated the free dataset from GeoNames.org into TheLabelFinder platform and thought the GeoPlanet data is worth being reviewed and compared. This artice is the result of our research.

Wikis are great for storing and managing unstructured data. But often your data isn't that unstructured at all. Especially in business. You'll often come to a point where you have areas (or doku>namespaces as they are called in DokuWiki) that contain a bunch of pages which basically all follow the same rules or structure.

Unglaublich. 10 Jahre ist das schon her: Vor 10 Jahren, an einem kalten Januartag, haben Jörg und ich eine entscheidende Unterschrift geleistet: die Unterschrift unter der Gründungsurkunde von CosmoCode. Heute haben wir das im Kreis unserer Mitarbeiter mit Torte und Champagner gefeiert.

A mission is the load to the bullet that won't miss the target. It is a brief but clear description of a task, fulfilled in the future. The benefits of a mission are huge: It leads through fiddly decision processes. It binds your staff to a team, which shares a challenge. It helps communicating your idea to everyone involved. It keeps you on track and prevents you from taking the wrong side roads.