Annoki

Abstract

Communication plays a vital role throughout all the activities of software engineering processes. As Web 2.0 paradigms concentrate on communication, collaboration, and information sharing, it is only natural that these applications should become part of the software engineering toolkit. In this paper, we describe Annoki, our collaboration platform built on top of the popular wiki software MediaWiki. Annoki supports collaboration by improving the organization of, managing access to, assisting in the creation of, and graphically displaying information about content stored on the wiki. We follow our description of Annoki with a discussion of the current users of Annoki, the largest of whom is the Software Engineering Research Lab at the University of Alberta, where it is used to manage research and development software engineering activities on a daily basis.