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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.


== Creation of the WikiWikiWeb ==


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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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).
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).
== Subsequent Events ==


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].
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].


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].
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].
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:
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, as shown below:
http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/WardsWikiBadPagenames.png
The above shows a portion of the WikiWikiWeb "Recent changes" after the 'bot (with the domain name x21.armchair.mb.ca, in this case) has reverted nonsense pages created by [[user:Manorainjan]].  Hundreds of similar nonsense-page creations and deletions are not shown.
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 the following message to [[WardCunningham]] expressing concern about the disruptive editing by [[user:Manorainjan]]:
http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/MessageToWard.png
On February 1st, 2015, the WikiWikiSystemNotice page introduced a complete re-write of the WikiWikiWeb software platform which had been in development since 2011.  Notably, deployment of the new software platform was apparently accelerated by the abuse described above.  According to the WikiWikiSystemNotice:
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After twenty years of service I'm pleased to announce a complete rewrite of wiki as a single page application with a distributed database which will last us for at least 20 years, maybe 200.
see [[http://c2.fed.wiki.org http://c2.fed.wiki.org]]</blockquote>
<blockquote>
We've recently endured abuse that has moved our conversion date forward before we were fully prepared. I apologize for this. Expect the new to be well aligned with the capabilities of the modern internet with plenty of opportunity for participation that was not possible before. Thank you all.</blockquote>


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