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Both the wiki engine and the wiki forum are called ''WikiWikiWeb''. Abbreviated variants of the name ''WikiWikiWeb'' are ''WikiWiki'' and ''Wiki''. Howard Cunningham named WikiWikiWeb after Wiki Wiki, which is a line of shuttle buses that runs between terminals at Honolulu International Airport. The name of the shuttle line is derived from the Hawaiian-language expression ''wiki wiki'', which is a word reduplication of ''wiki'', a word that means "fast". The reduplication ''wiki wiki'' is used to emphasize ''wiki'', so ''wiki wiki'' could be translated as "faster than fast". | Both the wiki engine and the wiki forum are called ''WikiWikiWeb''. Abbreviated variants of the name ''WikiWikiWeb'' are ''WikiWiki'' and ''Wiki''. Howard Cunningham named WikiWikiWeb after Wiki Wiki, which is a line of shuttle buses that runs between terminals at Honolulu International Airport. The name of the shuttle line is derived from the Hawaiian-language expression ''wiki wiki'', which is a word reduplication of ''wiki'', a word that means "fast". The reduplication ''wiki wiki'' is used to emphasize ''wiki'', so ''wiki wiki'' could be translated as "faster than fast". | ||
The tag line of WikiWikiWeb is "PeopleProgrammingAndPatterns". The original purpose of WikiWikiWeb was to document programming patterns, especially for members of | The tag line of WikiWikiWeb is "PeopleProgrammingAndPatterns". The original purpose of WikiWikiWeb was to document 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). | ||
However, around 1996 to 1998 approximately, 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]. | However, around 1996 to 1998 approximately, 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]. | ||