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Research paper : Realization of a collaboration system for everyone to develop and manage (K. Eto et al.)−99 Synthesiology - English edition Vol.1 No.2 (2008) editing using qwikWeb was presented in the final article[17]. The qwikWeb group used in the article series was opened to public to serve as reference for similar users[18]. According to the article, the reasons qwikWeb was selected were: “overview of the project can be readily seen by members who joined later” and “both mail and document can be viewed.” Here, the objective of qwikWeb was realized. From this example, it can be confirmed that qwikWeb reached a quality that could be used at a practical level even though this was a research run.7 Related researchesThe basic concept of Wiki is that anyone can easily edit the contents, and there are several similar systems called Wiki clones that have adopted this concept. There are Wiki engines equipped with a function of linkage with mail to enable more convenient use of Wiki. In JotSpot[19], a Wiki page can be updated by sending e-mail to the mail address corresponding to each Wiki page. PukiWiki[20] allows an addition of a function of handling the mails received as entry to the page. Hiki[21] has a function of notifying updates by mail. All these use e-mail as a supplementary function of Wiki, but qwikWeb is different in the point that it is joined closely to ML. There are also Wikis with specialized purposes. Perhaps the most famous one is MediaWiki. This is a Wiki engine used in Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. There are also several proposals for a Wiki engine called Semantic Wiki, a tool to easily create semantic web data[22][23]. There are Wiki engines for educational purpose. Guzdial et al developed a Wiki engine called CoWeb which is used in education[24]. In 2 years of operation, over 120 Wikis were started up in schools and are operated on 10 servers. Wang et al added extensions needed for learning environment such as page ownership, writing authorization, and invisible mode[25]. Brereton et al constructed an educational support environment based on Wiki[26]. However, there is no proposal of a system fused seamlessly with ML as in qwikWeb.8 SummaryWe proposed qwikWeb that smoothly fused information communication, accumulation of knowledge, and structuring technology to realize a collaboration system that can be built and managed by anyone. We described the process for realizing Full Research of such a collaboration system. As a result of designing, implementing, and operating this system, about 18,000 users used about 3,000 MLs. Adequacy and efficacy of this system were demonstrated by analyzing the operation data.Future issues include commercial operation by companies, improvement by focusing on target users, and improvement for use in diverse information environment such as cell phones.Modulobe, or virtual organism construction environment, Fig. 6 Difference in use status by group.(a) Group mainly using ML(b) Group mainly using Wiki(c1) Group using Wiki only for some period(c2) Group using Wiki only for some periodNumber of submissionsNumber of Wiki editsNumber of Wiki accessesNumber of usersNumber of submissionsNumber of Wiki editsNumber of Wiki accessesNumber of usersNumber of submissionsNumber of Wiki editsNumber of Wiki accessesNumber of usersNumber of submissionsNumber of Wiki editsNumber of Wiki accessesNumber of users2004006008001000120014001600180020000061218month2430500061218month24301001502002503001000061218month243020030040050060070050061218month24301001502002503000(27)−

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