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* 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) | * 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) | ||
* Ward, I was glad to meet you at a Wikipedia meetup. I, too, have been a fellow traveler on the Wiki-Wiki shuttle, but more importantly I am a fervent editor on several Wikis that run on the descendants of the software that you developed. Thank you for changing our lives! [[User:Peaceray|Peaceray]] ([[User talk:Peaceray|talk]]) 16:53, 25 March 2025 (UTC) | * Ward, I was glad to meet you at a Wikipedia meetup. I, too, have been a fellow traveler on the Wiki-Wiki shuttle, but more importantly I am a fervent editor on several Wikis that run on the descendants of the software that you developed. Thank you for changing our lives! [[User:Peaceray|Peaceray]] ([[User talk:Peaceray|talk]]) 16:53, 25 March 2025 (UTC) | ||
* The concept of a wiki is so simple that it's bound to fail - right? How can we trust people to just show up to a website, and improve it? And yet, somehow we made it work by making it easier to do the right thing, than to mess it up. It turned out to be a valuable addition to a set of publishing models, one that enables communities to really work together effectively. And communities, that is what has driven a lot of the valuable content of the internet. Just imagine we would have to depend on companies to provide everything, if everything would need to abide by business models. Wiki's are not for everyone, but the people that run with it, are my kind of people. Thank you for providing the spark that brought these fun and interesting people together! [[User:Effeietsanders|Effeietsanders]] ([[User talk:Effeietsanders|talk]]) 17:31, 25 March 2025 (UTC) | |||