Wiki monitoring and updating
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLisa Seacat DeLuca, Robert Ross Peterson
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Abstract
A method for monitoring and updating a wiki includes associating a portion of the wild with a reference by identifying the reference, displaying information from the reference in the portion of the wiki and monitoring the reference for change. If a change is detected, the wiki reports to the user that a reference has changed. The user is presented with options to update portions of the wiki that are associated with the reference. If the user accepts an option to update portions of the wiki associated with a reference that has changed, then the wiki is updated.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- associating a portion of a wild hosted by a computing device with an electronic reference;
- displaying information from the reference in the portion of the wiki;
- monitoring the reference for change with the computing device;
- if a change is detected by the computing device, then reporting to a user that a reference has changed;
- presenting the user with options to update portions of the wiki that are associated with a reference that has changed;
- and
- if the user accepts an option to update portions of the wiki associated with the reference that has changed, then updating the wiki.
A system comprising:
- a wiki hosted by a computing device;
- a wiki reference tool implemented by a computer processor, the wiki reference tool configured to associate selected portions of a wiki with references;
- a wiki update tool implemented by the computer processor, the wiki update tool configured to monitor references associated with portions of the wiki for changes;
- and
- a change notification generated by the wiki update tool and presented to the user when the wild update tool detects a change in one of the references associated with the wiki.
A computer program product for implementing a wiki, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to associate a portion of the wiki with a reference;
- computer readable program code configured to display information from the reference in the portion of the wiki;
- computer readable program code configured to monitor the reference for change;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to update the portion of the wiki if a change in the reference is detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.