30th WikiBirthday: Difference between revisions

* After a few days intensively focused on reading & writing in the new-to-me WikiWikiWebs in 1998(?), I knew my experience of the web had changed forever when I saw an error on some other website '''and was confused when I couldn't find the edit button'''. I had internalized that the web is editable! Wiki became part of my ongoing life, as with [[Open Space]]. What makes a wiki a wiki is an amazing conversation to get to be a part of, especially as it becomes clear that there is almost no agreed-upon list of core features. For some, collaboration among people is central, while for others a personal wiki is still a wiki, for some the naming dimension is immense, for others, it's a sideline. Are structured wikis still wikis? It depends? "What is a wiki?" quickly (over a period of years) became one of those questions that will never have a definitive answer. I believe that the web, and the world, will be endlessly grateful it was Ward and other early wiki folks who put hypertext on the map of the early web, a space of many ecosystems that wiki continues to inhabit and grow into. In any case, HippoBirdieToYou on your 30th birthday, wiki. --[[User:John Abbe|John Abbe]] ([[User talk:John Abbe|talk]]) 19:02, 19 February 2025 (UTC)