SpaceWikiSpaceWiki –– A A LivingLiving CollaborativeCollaborative EnvironmentEnvironment John DeMello Air Force Research Labs Synopsis • Half Life of Knowledge •Why Wiki? • So What? So What? •SpaceWiki – Exists in theory, not on paper. vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 2 Knowledge and Exponential Decay • The Half Life of Knowledge ~ 3 Years –Moore’s Law – Kurzweil’s Law • The Petabyte-Era is here – But data is chaotic – Data is selective vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 3 So What is a Wiki? Wiki (wĭ’kē or wē’kē): A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. Derived from the Hawaiian word “wiki” meaning quick vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 4 WikiPedia “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” -Jimmy Wales vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 5 Why Wiki? vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 6 Meh, So What? “We don’t know what we know” -Intellipedia - September 11th - Did you get the memo? - “Great” Meeting… - The Management vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 7 What Has Wiki Done for Me? • Intellipedia – Chlorine gas in IEDs – 2006 NIE on Nigeria • Diplopedia – Helping form foreign policy • FalconWiki – FalconSat payload vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 8 The SpaceWiki - Living - Grassroots - Instant - Centralized - Interconnected vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 9 Shrek… not CHREC • “Ogres are like onions, they have layers…” • SpaceWiki is like an onion UHF Comm Spotbeams / Algorithms Transponder Data Benchmarks Radiation Effects vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 10 Why SpaceWiki? • Adhoc Cycle – “Elephant in Room” • Relate research to systems • Encourage young contributors • The ultimate IPT vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 11 Where to Start? • Conceptual systems •How to RHBD • RadCat •Benchmarking vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 12 Where is it? • Build upon Intellipedia –Unclass/ FOUO –SECRET • Build ITAR site vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 13 The Tipping Point • Success depends on use •Incentives • Goals vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 14 How Wikis Work? • No special language necessary • Community created & edited • Senior editors review periodically • Administrators limit vandalism • No idea is too stupid! Be BOLD! vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 15 Non Linear Systems 101 The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Questions? vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 16.