  WorkingWiki is a software extension for the popular MediaWiki platform that
makes a wiki into a powerful environment for collaborating on
publication-quality manuscripts and software projects. Developed in Jonathan
Dushoff's theoretical biology lab at McMaster University and available as free
software, it allows wiki users to work together on anything that can be done by
using UNIX commands to transform textual "source code" into output. Researchers
can use it to collaborate on programs written in R, python, C, or any other
language, and there are special features to support easy work on LaTeX
documents. It develops the potential of the wiki medium to serve as a
combination collaborative text editor, development environment, revision
control system, and publishing platform. Its potential uses are open-ended -
its processing is controlled by makefiles that are straightforward to customize
- and its modular design is intended to allow parts of it to be adapted to
other purposes.
