Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing is the practice of groups producing works together through individual contributions. Effective choices in group awareness, participation, and coordination are critical to successful collaborative writing outcomes.^[1] Most usually it is applied to textual documents or programmatic source code. Such asynchronous (non-simultaneous) contributions are very efficient in time, as group members need not assemble in order to work together. Generally, managing such work requires software;^[2] the most common tools for editing documents are Wikis, and those for programming, version control systems. Most word processors are also capable of recording changes; this allows editors to work on the same document while automatically clearly labeling who contributed what changes.

Wikipedia is an example of a collaborative editing project on a large scale.

See also

• Collaborative real-time editors
• Collaborative software
• Collaborative writing
• Distributive writing
• Ensemble collaboration
• Word processors

Notes

References

• Kuutti, Kari, Eija Helena Karsten, Paul Dourish, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Kjeld Schmidt. (2003). ECSCW 2003: proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (14-18 September 2003, Helsinki, Finland). London: Kulwer. 10-ISBN 1-402-01573-9; 13-ISBN 978-1-402-01573-1; OCLC 52784895
• Speck, Bruce W. (2008). Collaborative Writing: An Annotated Bibliography. Charlotte, North Carolina: IAP (Information Age Publishing). 10-ISBN 1-593-11285-8; 13-ISBN 978-1-593-11285-1

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