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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. | '''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. | ||
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 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. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
In early December 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 -- had 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 were externally enforced via the use of a 'bot that automatically reverted edits made by banned users. The result was that the WikiWikiWeb "new recent changes" page at [[http://c2.com/cgi/RecentChanges http://c2.com/cgi/RecentChanges]] frequently looked like the following: | |||
[http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/WardsWikiDecember2014.png] | [http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/WardsWikiDecember2014.png] | ||
By late December 2014, [[user:manorainjan]] was apparently using an automated script to attempt to not only preserve the aforementioned 15 pages, but also to apparently keep them at the top of RecentChanges. On December 25th, he began creating hundreds of content-free pages with names consisting of strings of repeated characters or words. | |||
On December 26th, 2014, the WikiWikiWeb was effectively locked. Attempts to save page changes consistently resulted in an error message. This appeared within minutes after a WikiWikiWeb user sent a message to [[WardCunningham]] expressing concern about the disruptive editing by [[user:Manorainjan]]. | |||
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