WikiAnnotation

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WikiAnnotation means annotation of WikiPages.

Why is WikiAnnotation important for Online Communities? Isn't Wiki enough? Wikis allow inline annotations with normal wiki page editing? -- FridemarPache

Notes:

Don't confuse an AnnotationWiki with WikiAnnotation. An AnnotationWiki is a repository for annotations material, to be pasted into rich text/link annotation dialogues, whereas WikiAnnotation makes only wiki pages the targets of annotations. Of course an AnnotationWiki can be itself the target of some WikiAnnotation.
This page starts a FireTrail. Its FireTrailUrl is [here].
This page has DiiGo annotations on it.

Discussion:

Pros:

Enlarge Space: If there are lots of people, who make annotations, the Wiki Pages will become unmanagable. By sourcing out the ThreadMode, the need for refactoring pages is reduced considerably.
Point back to annotations: Wiki pages, allow the people, who annotate, to leave a notice on the wiki page itself. This is not possible with static webpages, where only the admin can do it.
Connect Wikis by
- annotation trails (like TrailFire)
- TagCombinations (like DiiGo)
Connecting Communities: The social bookmarking and social annotation communities represent a strong trend towards a Social Web. So online-community oriented wikis should not miss this trend.

-- [fridemar]

Cons:

more technological overhead:
- it slows down screen-loading
- more learning of this new annotation tools.
it makes an ugly page overburdened with annotation markers:
- DiiGo TrailFire programmers, please make a big toggle markers button!!

-- [fridemar]

 {0 
  {1 
   {2 Hans, can you see the upper paragraphs on this page DiiGo marked in total. 
      Currently I cannot get rid of the highlighted DiiGo text. -- fridemar
   }
   The text in curly braces, numbered 2, was copied into a FireTrailMark as temporary work text. When this page gets 
   refactored, it can be deleted. In the meantime, it serves as an illustration, how useful TrailFire and DiiGo is for maintaining 
   a WikiPage. 
   The text in curly braces, numbered 1, is again copied into a FireTrailMark and a DiiGo annotation, so that later it
   can be deleted too, after it has 
   served as an illustration.
  1}
   -- fridemar  
  dto. for block 0.  Later after using the annotation tools, such collaboration interaction can be factored out straight 
  from the start on. I hope to have demonstrated, how useful WikiAnnotation can be. 
 0}

Fridemar - Yes I can see them and the sure are colorful! -- HansWobbe

Hans, thank you for giving feedback. If annotations become common practise, I think the wiki base pages must be slides, so that we can overlook with minimal effort, where the annotations are. Scrolling for reading is bearable, but scrolling for annotation is not. -- fridemar