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Abbreviated variants of the name '''''WikiWikiWeb''''' are '''''WikiWiki''''' and '''''Wiki'''''. It has also been informally called '''Ward's 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'''''. It has also been informally called '''Ward's 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". | ||
Confusingly, the original Perl-based software and the content it maintained were frequently both described as the WikiWikiWeb, especially prior to the existence of other wikis. This page refers to the Wiki and its content, rather than the software itself. | |||
The original 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]. | 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]. | ||