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'''WikiWikiWeb''' is the first {{tag|Wiki Engine|wiki engine}} and wiki forum ever! The wiki engine has been developed in the {{tag|Perl}} programming language since 1994 by [[WardCunningham]], and is based on a HyperCard stack that Cunningham designed for {{tag|collaboration}} with his former colleagues at Tektronix in Portland, Oregon.
}}(As of: 2014-12-26)<!--YYYY-MM-DD; manually add/amend ISO 8601 date when stats are verified and/or updated-->


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 {{tag|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.
The '''WikiWikiWeb''' [[wiki]] site is the world's first, oldest, and longest-running wiki site.  It primarily focussed on {{tag|people}}, {{tag|projects}}, and {{tag|patterns}} in {{tag|software development}}.  WikiWikiWeb was originally powered by software known as {{tag|Wiki Base}}<ref name=Reasonator>[[Toolforge-Reasonator:21562045|Wiki Base (Q21562045) – wiki software that runs WikiWikiWeb]]; ''Reasonator.Toolforge.org''; [[Reasonator]], at [[Wikimedia Toolforge]]; accessed 22 December 2022.</ref> and located at <tt>http://C2.com/cgi/wiki</tt> – a location that is still available (though now redirects to <tt>https://Wiki.C2.com</tt>), but {{tag|locked}} to {{tag|Read-only|read-only}} due to persistent [[vandal]]ism in December [[:Category:Founded in 2014|2014]] and January [[:Category:Founded in 2015|2015]].  In February 2015, WikiWikiWeb was migrated to a {{tag|Federated wiki}} (originally at <tt><nowiki>http://C2.Fed.Wiki.org/</nowiki></tt>).


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 first [[:Category:Wiki engine|wiki engine]] software was compiled in the [[:Category:Perl|Perl]] programming language in [[:Category:Founded in 1994|1994]] by [[Ward Cunningham]] (now known as the 'father of wiki'), and was based on a HyperCard stack that Cunningham designed for {{tag|collaboration}} with his former colleagues at Tektronix in [[:Category:Portland|Portland]], Oregon.  WikiWikiWeb was {{tag|founded in 1995}} under the internet domain of Cunningham's [[:Category:Software|software]] consultancy 'Cunningham & Cunningham, {{Cambridge-Dictionary|incorporated|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.


The tag line of WikiWikiWeb is "People, Programming and Patterns".  The original purpose of WikiWikiWeb was to document {{tag|programming}} patterns, especially for members of [http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/johnson/ 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).
Confusingly, the original Perl-based software ''and'' the actual content it maintained were frequently both described as the '''WikiWikiWeb''', especially prior to the existence of other wikis.  This article page here on WikiIndex refers to the <u>wiki site</u> and its textual content, rather than the {{tag|WikiWikiWeb}} software itself.


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 [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MissingWikiBeforeXp missing Wiki before XP].
Abbreviated variants of the name '''WikiWikiWeb''' are '''WikiWiki''' and '''Wiki'''.  It has also been informally called '''Ward's Wiki''', as an {{Cambridge-Dictionary|homage}} to its creator.  [[Ward Cunningham]] named WikiWikiWeb after 'Wiki Wiki', a line of Chance RT-52 shuttle buses running between terminals at {{Wp|Honolulu International Airport}}.  The name of the shuttle line is derived from the [[:Category:Hawaiian|Hawaiian-language]] ''wiki'', which means 'fast' or 'quick'.<ref>[https://c2.com/doc/etymology.html Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki]; ''C2.com''; [[Ward Cunningham]]; November 2003; accessed 22 December 2022.</ref>  The repetition ''wiki wiki'' is used to emphasize ''wiki'', so ''wiki wiki'' could be interpreted as 'faster than fast'.


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 [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeatDeathOfWiki heat death of Wiki].
The original wiki software, {{tag|Wiki Base}},<ref name=Reasonator/> was rarely altered, so new facilities were typically implemented by de-facto policy and manual effort, or via external websites.  This had the benefit of allowing facilities to be flexibly added without programming.  However, it required manual effort to maintain.  For example, [[Wiki:ChangesInMonth|ChangesInMonth]] were always generated manually and maintained by a succession of individuals, most recently [[Wiki:JohnFletcher|John Fletcher]]. The new [[Federated wiki]] software permits extensions via plugins, which may facilitate automating processes that were formerly manual.


WikiWikiWeb was {{tag|FoundedIn1995}}, and is part of the {{tag|RealNamesNetwork}} and {{tag|WikiWikiWebAndItsSisterSites}}.  It has also been informally called '''Wards Wiki''', as a homage to its creator.
The original purpose of WikiWikiWeb was to document {{tag|programming}} patterns, especially for members of [[Archive.org:19971222015343/http://st-www.CS.UIUC.edu/users/johnson/|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).  From 1996 to 1998, discussion of {{Wp|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 [[Wiki:MissingWikiBeforeXp|missing Wiki before XP]].


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 http://c2.com/cgi/RecentChanges]] frequently looks like the following:
Some former regular [[user]]s of WikiWikiWeb complained that the discussion on WikiWikiWeb deteriorated since about [[:Category:Founded in 1999|1999]] or [[:Category:Founded in 2000|2000]], describing that deterioration as the [[Wiki:HeatDeathOfWiki|heat death of Wiki]].  Later activity focused more on '[[Wiki:ThreadMode|thread mode]]' debates and social banter around programming topics, plus curation of the early content, than the '[[Wiki:DocumentMode|document mode]]' creation of summary pages that characterised its early Patterns and XP years.
[http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/WardsWikiDecember2014.png]


;External links
;''References
*[http://c2.com/~ward Ward's Personal Pages] (these pages are not inside the wiki)
<References/>


;Additional tags
;''External links
*{{tag|People}}
*[[Archive.org:19961129191919/http://C2.com/~ward/|Ward's personal pages]] (these pages are not inside the wiki) — at C2.com, via [[Archive.org]]
*{{tag|Projects}}
*[[Archive.org:20020602082026/http://C2.com/cgi/wiki/|C2.com/cgi/wiki]] — WikiWikiWeb via the original Perl-based software, now read-only, at C2.com, via Archive.org
*{{tag|Patterns}}
*[https://wiki.c2.com Wiki.C2.com] — WikiWikiWeb via the new [[Federated wiki]] system (originally at <tt>C2.Fed.Wiki.org</tt>)
*{{tag|GreatFeature}}


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