The ââ?¬Å?WikiWayââ?¬Â is the open editing philosophy of wikis meant to foster open collaboration and continuous improvement of their\r\ncontent. Just like other online communities, wikis often introduce and enforce conventions, constraints, and rules for their content,\r\nbut do so in a considerably softer way, expecting authors to deliver content that satisfies the conventions and the constraints,\r\nor, failing that, having volunteers of the community, the WikiGnomes, fix othersââ?¬â?¢ content accordingly. Constrained wikis is\r\nour generic framework for wikis to implement validators of community-specific constraints and conventions that preserve the\r\nWikiWay and their open collaboration features. To this end, specific requirements need to be observed by validators and a specific\r\nsoftware architecture can be used for their implementation, that is, as independent functions (implemented as internal modules\r\nor external services) used in a nonintrusive way. Two separate proof-of-concept validators have been implemented for MediaWiki\r\nand MoinMoin, respectively, providing an annotated view functions, that is, presenting content authors with violation warnings,\r\nrather than preventing them from saving a noncompliant text.
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