Ontology in a Wiki collaboratively authoring ontologies the simple way

The development and maintenance of ontologies more often than not requires tools for their collaborative authoring. The existing tools come with a significant overhead for their installation and operation. This overhead is acceptable for large ontologies with hundreds and thousands of classes; but in some communities and projects e.g. in the eHumanites it poses a major adoption barrier. This paper makes the case that often a low-tech, Wiki-based approach to ontology authoring that prefers conventions over tool-enforced rules can be an appropriate solution. It outlines under which conditions such a simple solution is adequate and demonstrates the practicality of this approach such using a real-life use case from eGovernment standardization.