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The '''WikiWikiWeb''' is the world's first and longest-running wiki, focusing on {{tag|People}}, {{tag|Projects}} and {{tag|Patterns}} in software development.  
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>).


Its original wiki engine was developed in the {{tag|Perl}} programming language in 1994 by [[WardCunningham|Ward Cunningham]], and was based on a HyperCard stack that Cunningham designed for {{tag|collaboration}} with his former colleagues at Tektronix in Portland, Oregon. In early February 2015, the process began of moving the content from the old Perl-based software at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki to the new [[Federated wiki (wiki)]] software at http://c2.fed.wiki.org.
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.


WikiWikiWeb was {{tag|FoundedIn1995}}, and is part of the {{tag|RealNamesNetwork}} and {{tag|WikiWikiWebAndItsSisterSites}}.  It has also been informally called '''Wards Wiki''', as an homage to its creator.
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.


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.
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'.


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 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.


The original Perl-based Wiki software was rarely altered, so new facilities were typically implemented by de-facto policy and manual effort, or via external Web sites.  This had the benefit of allowing facilities to be flexibly added without programming.  However, it required manual effort to maintain. For example, [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChangesInMonth ChangesInMonth] were always generated manually and maintained by a succession of individuals, most recently [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JohnFletcher John Fletcher].
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]].


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).
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.


From 1996 to 1998, 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].
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Many former regular users of WikiWikiWeb complained that the discussion on WikiWikiWeb deteriorated since about 1999 or 2000, and some of them described that deterioration as the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeatDeathOfWiki heat death of Wiki].
;''External links
 
*[[Archive.org:19961129191919/http://C2.com/~ward/|Ward's personal pages]] (these pages are not inside the wiki) — at C2.com, via [[Archive.org]]
;External links
*[[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
*[http://c2.com/~ward Ward's Personal Pages] (these pages are not inside the wiki)
*[https://wiki.c2.com Wiki.C2.com] — WikiWikiWeb via the new [[Federated wiki]] system (originally at <tt>C2.Fed.Wiki.org</tt>)
 
;Additional tags
*{{tag|People}}
*{{tag|Projects}}
*{{tag|Patterns}}


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