Back in October, we invited the readers of our blog to try out the private beta of a new side-project, Many Eyes Wikified. We’re happy to announce that the Wikified beta is now open to the public!

Some background
We use wikis a lot here at IBM: to track projects, gather links, and draft documents. They can be very useful for casually organizing information.

Meanwhile, we’ve been thinking about reporting and dashboard systems lately. These are specialized business tools that feature several screens with multiple views into a big dataset. They can be extremely powerful, but also complicated to set up and use.

We decided to build a tool that combines the informal appeal of a wiki with some of the visualization capabilities of a dashboard-like system. And so Wikified was born!

What it does

Many Eyes Wikified is a “remix” of Many Eyes, using a wiki markup syntax to enable you to easily edit datasets and lay out visualizations side-by-side.

It also functions just like a normal wiki: you can collaboratively edit pages, add explanations or documentation to your visuals, see a page’s edit history, and revert changes.

Unlike a normal wiki, you can embed content from your blog or other data source within Wikified and visualize it. You can also embed the content you make in Wikified elsewhere, just like you can in Many Eyes:

Feel free to give it a try! You can log in with your existing Many Eyes username and password (although the login process might be a bit different from what you’re used to). Wikified is very much a work-in-progress, so we’re eager to hear your feedback!