Collaborative Content Generation System And Method

A method for managing the collaborative generation of an electronic source content item by multiple users over a network, the method comprising:

• creating an original source content item on a wiki page;
• providing a link to the wiki page to a plurality of users of a user community;
• linking to the wiki page by one of the plurality of users of the user community;
• editing the original source content item by at least one of the plurality of users at a unique remote site to create an edited source content item comprising at least one edited component;
• incorporating the at least one edited component from the edited source content item into the original source content item to create a current version source content item;
• and
• refreshing the wiki page to provide the current version source content item on the wiki page.

A method for managing the collaborative generation of an electronic content item by multiple users over a network, the method comprising:

• creating an original electronic content item on a wiki page, the wiki page being accessible by a plurality of users of a user community over a network, each of the plurality of users located at a remote site;
• transforming the original electronic content item into a plurality of presentation formats, each of the plurality of presentation formats having an edit link for linking to the original electronic content item on the wiki page;
• editing one of the plurality of presentation formats by accessing the respective edit link by at least one of the plurality of users to create an edited portion of the original electronic content item;
• updating the original electronic content item with the edited portion of the original electronic content item by running an update process to create a current version electronic content item;
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• refreshing the wiki page to republish the current version electronic content item.

A method for managing the collaborative generation of an electronic content item by multiple users over a network, the method comprising:

• creating an original electronic content item on a wiki page, the wiki page being accessible by a plurality of users of a user community over a network, each of the plurality of users located at a remote site;
• transforming the original electronic content item into a plurality of presentation formats, each of the plurality of presentation formats having an edit link for linking to the original electronic content item on the wiki page;
• editing one of the plurality of presentation formats by accessing the respective edit link by at least one of the plurality of users to create an edited portion of the original electronic content item;
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• transparently transforming the original electronic content item on the wiki page during the editing of the one of the plurality of presentation formats by the user.

A system for managing the collaborative generation of an electronic content item by multiple users over a network, the system comprising:

• a network;
• a data repository comprising a source content item;
• an integrated development environment comprising means for accessing the source content item of the data repository over the network;
• a plurality of remote user sites of a user community, each of the plurality of remote user sites capable of accessing and downloading the source content item of the data repository over the network using the accessing means of the integrated development environment to create a local content presentation item of the source content item for editing at the remote user site by a user to create an edited local content presentation item, the local content presentation item having an edit link comprising context related information indicating the location and presentation of the source content item;
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• means for transforming the source content item during an application build process.