Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 4. Society-at-large

  • The Parser That Cracked The MediaWiki Code

    The Parser That Cracked The MediaWiki Code

    I am happy to announce that we finally open sourced the Sweble Wikitext parser. You can find the announcement on my research group’s blog or directly on the Sweble project site. This is the work of Hannes Dohrn, my first Ph.D. student, who I hired in 2009 to implement a Wikitext parser. So what about…

  • Revamping German Copyright Law #EIDG

    Revamping German Copyright Law #EIDG

    The German Enquete commission “Internet and Digital Society” is a multilateral commission instituted by the German parliament to discuss and make recommendations on, well, Internet and digital society. I’m a member of an expert advisory council for one of the parties involved in the commission. I received the following catalog of questions and thought I’d…

  • My position on privacy (seven things about me)

    My position on privacy (seven things about me)

    Stormy Peters recently tagged me to post seven items about my life. This is a “viral” pyramid scheme; you are supposed to write these seven items and then tag seven other people to do the same. It is not the first time I got such a request; I also got tagged on Facebook to post…

  • Learning from Wikipedia: Open collaboration within corporations

    Learning from Wikipedia: Open collaboration within corporations

    Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia that has taken the Internet by storm. It is written and administered solely by volunteers. How exactly did this come about and how does it work? Can it keep working? And maybe more importantly, can you transfer its practices to the workplace to achieve similar levels of dedication and…

  • A Grammar for Standardized Wiki Markup [WikiSym 2008]

    A Grammar for Standardized Wiki Markup [WikiSym 2008]

    Authors: Martin Junghans, Dirk Riehle, Rama Gurram, Matthias Kaiser, Mário Lopes, Umit Yalcinalp Abstract: Today’s wiki engines are not interoperable. The rendering engine is tied to the processing tools which are tied to the wiki editors. This is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of rigorously specified standards. This paper discusses an EBNF-based grammar for…

  • Bringing Wikipedia to work: Open collaboration within corporations

    Bringing Wikipedia to work: Open collaboration within corporations

    This upcoming Wikimania 2008 tutorial discusses the three principles of “open collaboration” which I believe are underlying wikis, open source, and other forms of peer production. It is a follow-up to last year’s tutorial about open collaboration at Wikimania 2007. If the slideshow doesn’t play, please use the PDF file download below. Reference: Dirk Riehle.…