30th WikiBirthday: Difference between revisions

* Ward, my life path would have been very different, surely far less interesting, and I think far less productive, if not for wiki software and the various communities that have emerged around it. Above all it has helped me develop an understanding (or at least a theory) of the conditions that best support collaboration, which serves me well in every relationship. Hopefully, I've been able to put that to use for others as well. I deeply appreciate your work over the years, which seems consistently driven by care, kindness, and a desire to support people in doing their best work together. Happy wiki birthday! -[[User:Peteforsyth|Pete Forsyth]] ([[User talk:Peteforsyth|talk]]) 16:38, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

* Discovering Wikipedia, MeatBall, and the original Portland Pattern Repository WikiWikiWeb in 2001 definitely was a turning point in my life. :) I spent many many hours poring over the collected wisdom of other programmers about how we program, and tried to realize those insights in the tools I created for Wikipedia editors to use. I'm astounded and immensely pleased *and* proud that wikis are still around years later and running strong in a lot of core knowledge-sharing niches! We've done well, collectively, but we can do better: we can make richer interactivity, easier-to-use tooling for communication and data structuring, and stronger programming-oriented tools for the complex niche tasks. It's my great hope that wikis will continue to evolve and fill that knowledge-sharing niche with "the human touch" in a world that isn't sure who they can trust anymore. --[[User:Brooke Vibber|Brooke Vibber]] ([[User talk:Brooke Vibber|talk]]) 16:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC)