Howard G. Cunningham, M.S., born 26 May 1949 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA, usually known as Ward Cunningham, is an American computer programmer, and inventor of the wiki.
 A beaming Ward Cunningham, circa 2006 | |
| Howard G. Cunningham | |
|---|---|
| Age: | born: 26 May 1949 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Other names: | Ward Cunningham 'The creator of wiki' The father of wiki |
| Nationality: | American |
| Language(s): | English |
| Residence: | Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon, United States of America |
| Home wiki(s): | WikiWikiWeb, aka Ward's Wiki |
| Editing status: | Active |
| Pers. website: | https://C2.com |
| Contact(s): | Twitter feed |
Ward Cunningham, the inventor of wiki, was the co-author of the book The Wiki Way, along with Bo Leuf, first published 2001.
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Within the wikisphere, Cunningham is best known as the author and creator of the first wiki software, Wiki Base;[1] the name of which was inspired by wiki, the Hawaiian word for 'quick'.[2] In 2011, he created Smallest Federated Wiki, a software tool for wiki federation, which applies aspects of software development such as forking to wiki pages.
- Publications
- Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham (2005); The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web; Addison-Wesley Professional; 5th printing; ISBN 020171499X.
- Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham (2005); Fit for Developing Software; Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN 0321269349.
- References
- ↑ Wiki Base (Q21562045) – wiki software that runs WikiWikiWeb; Reasonator.Toolforge.org; Reasonator, at Wikimedia Toolforge; accessed 20 January 2022.
- ↑ Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki; C2.com; Ward Cunningham; November 2003; retrieved 18 January 2022.
- External links
- Ward Cunningham user page — on WikiWikiWeb, also known as Ward's Wiki
- Ward Cunningham (Q7637) — at Wikimedia Wikidata
- Ward Cunningham — at the English Wikipedia
- Quotations from Ward Cunningham — at the English Wikiquote
- ERCB: The Wiki Way (2001) – book review — at ERCB.com (via Archive.org); Electronic Review of Computer Books
- Ward Cunningham discusses Eclipse, wiki, and agile development — at SQLSummit.com, Ken North Computing, LLC., 7 April 2006
- Ward Cunningham on the Crucible of Creativity — impressionistic transcript from Ward Cunningham’s opening keynote at WikiSym, at Corante.com, 17 October 2005
- Ward Cunningham — at GitHub
- Gallery of Ward Cunningham images — at Wikimedia Commons