WikiRep: Installation Guide and Developer's Manual
Mikalai Sabel, Anurag Garg, Roberto Battiti · Unitn Eprints Research (Università Degli Studi di Trento) · 2005
This report covers installation, internal organization and algorithms of WikiRep, an envi-ronment for virtual communities with support for digital reputation. The first part is technical, it describes WikiRep installation procedure, briefly outlines source code structure, listing the most important functions, and provides details on how virtual reputations are stored in the database. Later part of the report covers WikiRep algorithms. Two approaches to defining quality of a digital reputation are analytically compared. The method employed for calculating adoption coefficients is described, with the proof that the coefficients are symmetric. Finally, the approach used to visualize value and quality of digital reputations is explained in detail. 1 Installation of WikiRep WikiRep is a Wiki with support for digital reputations and ratings. The implementation we develop is based on the Wiki application in eGroupWare. eGroupWare (eGW) is a web application to support group activities and interactions. In this Section, we describe the process of WikiRep installation, the major modifications WikiRep makes to eGW, and necessary information about