MoxyWiki:About

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The Smart Wiki, Modelling Wiki or Miki for short, is a free collaborative modelling environment that can be used by groups of people to analyse shared problems.

The vision for the Miki is to create a shared library of knowledge that is used by communities to make better decisions.

The Miki enables the construction of mathematical models in a collaborative open and decentralised manner. In this context:

Collaborative means that multiple participant are able to work on shared problem in parallel;

Open means, all knowledge used in analysis of the problem is publicly accessible, and may be reused by others according to the terms of the Creative Commons 3.0 licence.

Decentralised means that each individual or group is able to pursue problems of interest to them, without the need for central command and control type co-ordination.

Nature of the Miki

All models contained within the Miki are open. This means that the output of the model, the mathematical scripts that produce that output, and the data that the scripts operate on, are all publicly available, may be freely redistributed, and may be used as the basis for further models.

As each individual goes about solving their own particular analytical problem, they are free to reuse scripts, data or results generated by others. As all prior work is fully accessible, users can assess the quality and appropriateness of those models to their problem. They may choose to include the model as is, improve it, or write a completely new version of it. Either way, the knowledge in the system is improved, making future modelling easier.

The Miki uses Mediawiki software for the creation of pages. The Miki supports all the same simplified mark-up language as does the popular Wikimedia. Indeed the process for modifying pages within the Miki is the same.

Each page within the Miki represents contains textual information that describes an object. Users are able to tag various pieces of text on the page as properties using the Semantic Mediawiki Extension Syntax].

These properties can be queried using the GetProperty template and combined via mathematical equations written in R Script to form analytical models. The output of these models can themselves be presented on pages and tagged as properties.

In such ways, models of complex problems can be developed quickly by the assembly of existing model fragments.

What is in the Miki Already

You can browse through the existing subjects via the Ontology Browser which is a tool for viewing the different categories of object, but also the specific instances of objects, their properties and values.