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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]. | 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]. | ||
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 -- began 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: | |||
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 -- | |||
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On December 26th, 2014, as of 23:46, the wiki was effectively made read-only. Attempts to save page changes consistently resulted in the error message "Suspicious source (tor.ahbl.org)". This was instated minutes after WikiWikiWeb user [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DaveVoorhis Dave Voorhis] sent a message to [[WardCunningham]] expressing concern about the disruptive editing by [[user:Manorainjan]]. | On December 26th, 2014, as of 23:46, the wiki was effectively made read-only. Attempts to save page changes consistently resulted in the error message "Suspicious source (tor.ahbl.org)". This was instated minutes after WikiWikiWeb user [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DaveVoorhis Dave Voorhis] sent a message to [[WardCunningham]] expressing concern about the disruptive editing by [[user:Manorainjan]]. | ||
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. | |||
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