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Wiki-based application, such as Wikipedia, uses collective intelligence to build encyclopedias collaboratively. Most wiki-based applications currently adopt centralized system architectures. Although some work has studied the problem that centralized architectures are unreliable, existing implementations still face some challenges, such as non-disclosure, non-transparency and insecurity. Recently, blockchain has gained extensive attention due to its irreversibility, consensus mechanism and decentralization. We propose a novel blockchain-based wiki framework named WikiChain, which provides decentralized, fair, efficient and collaborative knowledge management. Additionally, we present the workflow of WikiChain by smart contracts and adopt IPFS to store large-scale data. Finally, we implement a prototype on Ethereum and evaluate the efficiency of WikiChain. The experimental results show the utility and scalability of WikiChain.
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This work was supported by the Scientific Research Program of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality under Grant No. 19511102203.
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Xu, Z., Liu, C., Zhang, P., Lu, T., Gu, N. (2021). WikiChain: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Wiki Framework. In: Sun, Y., Liu, D., Liao, H., Fan, H., Gao, L. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ChineseCSCW 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1330. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2540-4_4
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