Riffing on the idea that wiki research can be done in a wiki way, we've set out to build a model Wiki Research Laboratory. The idea is simply to combine the open ended inquiry supported by Exploratory Parsing with the intrinsic sharing of federated wiki.
WEEKLY WEDNESDAY MORNING ward@c2.com andrew@andrewlih.com john.sherry@intel.com pete@wikistrategies.net
We mocked up what a progressive inquiry might look like by copying parse input and output from our existing Exploratory Parsing Webapp. We aspire to replaces that app's notion of "run" with first the journal and then new pages capturing the evolution of attention as parses yield clues.
We mocked up a plugin that simulated the remote job control we would need to run parses against huge datasets in the cloud. We've extended this plugin with a server-side component that cooperates with the client over a websocket while a job is running.
We catalog the Client-Facing API offered by the original app as a starting point for a websocket wire protocol between the two halves of the Parse plugin.
We collected data on Pages with Videos for Andrew Lih and is media students at USC. We'll reuse this bit of research as a test case for our wiki work.
We'll be Exploratory Parsing at the edit-a-thon today. calagator 
A nested question we might ask it: How many different kinds of infoboxes contain videos?