WikiWikiWeb

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http://c2.com/sig/wiki.gif	WikiWikiWeb Recent changes WikiNode About [No Mobile URL]
Founded by:	WardCunningham
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Language:	English
Edit mode:	ReadOnly"ReadOnly" is not in the list (OpenEdit, SaveAfterPreview, LoginToEdit, ConfirmEmail, ByInvitation, Unknown edit mode, Pay to edit, Login via forum, Read-only) of allowed values for the "Wiki edit mode" property.
Wiki engine:	WikiWikiWeb
Wiki license:	[[:Category:Wiki {{{license}}}|{{{license}}}]]
Main topic:	Software development
Backups:	2011-06-04

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as of 26.12.2014

WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki engine and wiki forum ever! The wiki engine has been developed in the Perl programming language since 1994 by WardCunningham, and is based on a HyperCard stack that Cunningham designed for collaboration with his former colleagues at Tektronix in Portland, Oregon.

As of 2014.12.26 23:46 C2 is effectively locked by a world wide RangeBlock, which was instated minutes after a WikiWikiWeb user sent a message to WardCunningham expressing concern about the nearly-continuous automated page creation by user:Manorainjan (see below) of off-topic material and pages with names consisting of strings of repeated characters and no meaningful content. The HomePage does not mention it and pages appear to be editable until one tries to save the edit.

The wiki forum was inaugurated in the Internet domain of Cunningham's software consultancy Cunningham & Cunningham, Incorporated, also in Portland, on March 25, 1995, as an automated add-on to its Portland Pattern Repository, a directory for publication of programming patterns which programmers sent by E-mail.

Both the wiki engine and the wiki forum are called WikiWikiWeb. Abbreviated variants of the name WikiWikiWeb are WikiWiki and Wiki. Cunningham named WikiWikiWeb after 'Wiki Wiki', a line of Chance RT-52 shuttle buses running between terminals at Honolulu International Airport. The name of the shuttle line is derived from the Hawaiian-language expression "wiki wiki", which is a word reduplication of "wiki", a word that means "fast". The reduplication wiki wiki is used to emphasize wiki, so wiki wiki could be translated as "faster than fast".

The tag line of WikiWikiWeb is "People, Programming and Patterns". The original purpose of WikiWikiWeb was to document programming patterns, especially for members of Ralph Johnson's patterns mailing list, and for people who attended the Patterns Languages of Programs Conference (PLoP) and the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA).

However, around 1996 to 1998 approximately, discussion of extreme programming (XP) became more popular, and the first members of WikiWikiWeb, who preferred to discuss patterns, started emigrating. Some of them later complained about missing Wiki before XP.

Many former regular users of WikiWikiWeb have complained that the discussion on WikiWikiWeb has deteriorated since about 1999 or 2000, and some of them have described that deterioration as the heat death of Wiki.

WikiWikiWeb was FoundedIn1995, and is part of the RealNamesNetwork and WikiWikiWebAndItsSisterSites. It has also been informally called Wards Wiki, as a homage to its creator.

As of December 1st, 2014, WikiIndex user user:manorainjan -- who was banned from WikiWikiWeb in late November 2014 for demonstrating anti-community activity and failing to engage in dialogue with the Wiki community over his apparent attempts to add a "category none" to every uncategorised page -- has been frequently and continuously (over 12 hours per day) spamming the WikiWikiWeb with attempts to preserve approximately 15 pages he created shortly before and after the ban. On the WikiWikiWeb, bans are externally enforced via the use of a 'bot that automatically reverts edits made by banned users. The result is that the WikiWikiWeb "new recent changes" page at [http://c2.com/cgi/RecentChanges] frequently looks like the following: [1]

External links

• Ward's Personal Pages (these pages are not inside the wiki)

Additional tags

• People
• Projects
• Patterns
• GreatFeature