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:''Your interpretation is essentially incorrect.  Whilst it's true that "federated wiki" is not an engine and the "Smallest Federated Wiki" is a wiki engine, the "federated wiki" is a system, much like how the World Wide Web is a system.  Think of the "federated wiki" as being like the World Wide Web whilst the "Smallest Federated Wiki" is like the Apache Web Server software.''
:''Your interpretation is essentially incorrect.  Whilst it's true that "federated wiki" is not an engine and the "Smallest Federated Wiki" is a wiki engine, the "federated wiki" is a system, much like how the World Wide Web is a system.  Think of the "federated wiki" as being like the World Wide Web whilst the "Smallest Federated Wiki" is like the Apache Web Server software.''


:''The Wiki known as [[WikiWikiWeb]] -- which ran on the [[:Category:Perl|Perl]] software also sometimes known as [[:Category:WikiWikiWeb|WikiWikiWeb]] (which makes sense; given that when there was only one [[Wiki]], the software '''was''' the Wiki), is now being migrated to the federated wiki.  The c2.fed.wiki.org federated wiki node is hosted using Ward's Smallest Federated Wiki software, but other federated wiki nodes may use different software.  Thus, whilst it is true that the old view of the WikiWikWeb under the Perl software formerly known as WikiWikiWeb is now [[:Category:ReadOnly|read-only]], the WikiWikiWeb wiki is now part of the federated wiki system, and it is open for editing.''
:''The Wiki known as [[WikiWikiWeb]] -- which ran on the [[:Category:Perl|Perl]] software also sometimes known as [[:Category:WikiWikiWeb|WikiWikiWeb]] (which makes sense; given that when there was only one [[Wiki]], the software '''was''' the Wiki), is now being migrated to the federated wiki.  The c2.fed.wiki.org federated wiki node is hosted using Ward's Smallest Federated Wiki software, but other federated wiki nodes may use different software.  Thus, whilst it is true that the old view of the WikiWikWeb under the Perl software formerly known as WikiWikiWeb is now [[:Category:Read-only|read-only]], the WikiWikiWeb wiki is now part of the federated wiki system, and it is open for editing.''


:''This is substantiated by Ward's final contribution of February 1, 2015, under the old Perl-based software at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiSystemNotice''
:''This is substantiated by Ward's final contribution of February 1, 2015, under the old Perl-based software at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiSystemNotice''

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