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-The '''WikiWikiWeb''' is the world's first and longest-running wiki. 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. Since February 2015 forking its content to [[Federated wiki (wiki)]] was made possible by Cunningham who finished his work on the [[Smallest Federated Wiki]] engine.
+The '''WikiWikiWeb''' is the world's first and longest-running wiki. 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.
 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 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.