Enhancing rich content wikis with real-time collaboration

Wikis are one of the most important tools of Web 2.0 allowing users to easily edit shared data. However, wikis offer limited support for merging concurrent contributions on the same pages. Users have to manually merge concurrent changes and there is no support for an automatic merging. Real-time collaborative editing reduces the number of conflicts as the time frame for concurrent work is very short. In this paper we propose extending wiki systems with real-time collaboration. We propose an automatic merging solution adapted for rich content wikis. Our solution is integrated into a widely used wiki system.