A CollaborativeEditor allows multiple individuals to simultaneously edit the same document.
Collaborative real-time editing of text online is fascinating. When properly worked into the wiki-process it has the potential to speed up the development of wikilandia enormously.
The available collaborative editing programs are not perfect yet. This page is to foster their evolution. This page is for general discussion on collab-editing. Everything specific to a single project goes to the project pages.
It’s also meant as a feedback platform to give the developers information about what features are needed, what the possible applications are, …
This Cluster has a homepage on the wiki-center collab-editor-wiki.
Active Projects
moove entry up if a new version is released
- ACE - a collaborative editor is a free, cross platform collaborative text editor written in Java. 07.03.2006: Milestone 4 Released
- Gobby - free, open, cross platform. Released. Was used successfully at WikiSym for collaborative workshop notes.
- SubEthaEdit - freeware, non-open, mac only. Early discussions are on this page.
- MoonEdit - freeware, non-open, no mac version. The main part of the former discussion is on this page.
- CoEdit -
- oxyd - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/OXYD/Home
- CoTor - a pre-alpha project to write an AJAX CollaborativeEditor
- SynchroEdit
- http://collabedit.com - free browser based, real time text editor
- “In the Kwiki community, the plugin architecture is catalyzing the creation of a profusion of useful and creative plugins, including SubEthaKwiki?, which enables simultaneous editing with wiki history” – Adina Levin
- http://www.jotlive.com/
- WritingLark?, BrianTempleton’s editor – http://writinglark.com/ – see also screenshot
- Broth, a social wiki; employs social graph to propagate changes friend-to-friend in real-time http://oc-co.org/?p=105
- Conspire is built on gitjour, a tool to share git repositories locally via ZeroConf networking. Emacs is the only editor currently supported
Graphics whiteboarding:
- InkScape – vector – has whiteboarding in Linux, 0.45 should have it in Windows as well
- DrawPile – pixel
- Coccinella – a Jabber client with a whiteboard
other lists:
related
Significant CollaborativeEditor-ish WYSIWYGs that aren’t simultaneous:
List of others projects : Collaborative Writing Systems Available on the Web by Sylvie Noël
Retired Projects:
- Chalks - free, open, cross platform discontinued in summer 05.
Encyclopedic entries are
These pages are good for describing the state of art, but are not appropriate venues for development of the concepts and supporting code. As important technical points are refined and project milestones are reached, we will work together to keep the encyclopedic pages up to date.
- There is irc freenode #collabeditor.
- Feel free to use is-root.de as a MoonEdit-server for any collaborative editor related project-tings or real-time edit simultaneously about collaborative editors on the page collab_editor.
intcomm-wiki: SubPathEtaEdit-links has a lot of fine links on collaborative editors on it.
There is also s23-wiki: collaborative editor.
applications of collab-editing are
See also this blog post:
- I would also, at this juncture, like to renew my annual request to the gods that somebody on the OS X team please (Please!) steal the collaborative editing functionality of SubEthaEdit and put it into any app that supports text editing. That functionality should be like printing; a baked-in service that’s ubiquitous and configurable once from the System Preferences, then portable anywhere that the router has the correct holes punched. I’d so kill for that.
So there is some demand 
Discussion
Googeling collaborative editor shows that many people are working on it. Mostly I do not understand much.
Re: this line in this page (not sure if i’m using this feature right)
Sylvie and myself experienced using http://www.writely.com/ simultaneously in WYSIWYG mode
Note for Mattis: to test the Writely Ting page by mid-November you must let me in as collaborator … please use : luigi DOT bertuzzi AT mclink DOT net
So, is Wikipedia:PictoChat a graphical collaborative editor?
No. Because you can’t collaborate on the same image in real-time. It’s a graphical instant messenger.