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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. It was originally located at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki, but as of early February 2015, is being migrated to a [[Federated wiki]] at http://c2.fed.wiki.org/ | |||
The | The first 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. It was {{tag|FoundedIn1995}} under 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 '''Wards Wiki''', as an homage to its creator. 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 ''"wiki"'', which means "fast". 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'''''. | |||
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 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 new [[Federated wiki]] software permits extensions via plugins, which may facilitate automating processes that were formerly manual. | ||
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). 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]. | ||
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*[http://c2.com/~ward Ward's Personal Pages] (these pages are not inside the wiki) | *[http://c2.com/~ward Ward's Personal Pages] (these pages are not inside the wiki) | ||
*[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki WikiWikiWeb via the original Perl-based software] now read-only | |||
*[http://c2.fed.wiki.org WikiWikiWeb via the new software] as a [[Federated wiki]] | |||
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