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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 | 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 after persistent vandalism in late 2014 and early 2015, it was switched from open editing to read-only. Starting early February 2015, selected content is being migrated to a [[Federated wiki]] at http://c2.fed.wiki.org/ | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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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]. | ||
Some former regular users of WikiWikiWeb complained that the discussion on WikiWikiWeb deteriorated since about 1999 or 2000, describing that deterioration as the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeatDeathOfWiki heat death of Wiki]. Later activity focused more on [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThreadMode "thread mode"] debates and social banter around programming topics, plus curation of the early content, than the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DocumentMode "document mode"] creation of summary pages that characterised its early Patterns and XP years. | |||
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