I didn't see any mention of DITA Storm on here yet. You can check it out and try it here: http://www.ditastorm.com. Instead of Wiki markup you write in DITA or WYSIWYG. Very cool.

X-Pubs (http://www.x-pubs.com) is a brilliant XML Content Management and XML Publishing conference which I think is related to this.

The 2007 Conference in June will have lots of users presenting their own XML, DITA, CMS stories from organisations like Schlumberger, British Medical Journal and the Irish Government.

Michael Priestly the IBM DITA lead, Scott Abel, the Rockley Group who will be presenting a DITA-based case study,  and Svante Ericcson from the S1000D committee will all be presenting.

Some talks will address the role of DITA WIKIs and show implemented examples.  Not sure if there are commercial or open source projects yet.

Check it out.

- Elodie E

the main challange for a "wiki based on DITA" is the open architecture DITA provides. its easy to provide a wiki supporting standard DITA domain including task / concept and reference topic. similar was done for DocBook (http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/). its just a matter of doing so.

its much more difficult to provide "specialisation" support for wiki based authoring. thus the consistency and semantics a given specialisation provides must be respected and it must be possible to add additional specialisation on demand. and only thus design really provides additional value compared to something like DocBook wiki provides.

the most significant value to have a DITA wiki would be to create / maintain information using a higher and more flexible semantic layer compared to xhtml like input / output.


Alex

Even better would be a wiki-based DITA architecture!  Imagine a wiki site where you can collaborate with your team on documentation, and then transform to DITA source for processing into output, even automate it to create nightly builds etc.

I remember seeing some design discussion for Drupal support last year (Drupal is the CMS/Wiki that dita.xml.org itself uses). Not sure what the status is now - you could ask on the drupal site, http://drupal.org

Michael Priestley