History and evolution of wikis
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Wiki History
- author: Ward Cunningham
- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory
This began on March 25, 1995. A little later (May 1, 1995), an InvitationToThePatternsList caused an increase in participation. Growth has continued since then, to the point where the average number of new pages ranges between 5 and 12 per day.
WardsWikiTenthAnniversary occurred on March 25, 2005. At that time, we had about 30690 pages.
This is the first ever wiki site, founded as an automated supplement to the PortlandPatternRepository. The site was immediately popular within the pattern community, largely due to the newness of the Internet and a good slate of InvitedAuthors. The site was, and remains, dedicated to PeopleProjectsAndPatterns.
I created the site and the WikiWikiWeb machinery that operates it. I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for quick and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web.
Portland Pattern Repository
- Ward Cunningham
- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PortlandPatternRepository
The repository (http://c2.com/ppr/) publishes pattern languages and pattern related information. This site, the WikiWikiWeb, also contains a large amount of related material.
organization: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis
Detailed history of wikis, from historical antecedents to the end of 2003.
Exploring With Wiki: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham
- author: Bill Venners
- date: 20-Oct-2003
- http://www.artima.com/intv/wiki.html
Ward Cunningham talks with Bill Venners about using wiki for collaborative exploration and the tradeoff between wiki authors and readers.
video: An Evening with Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham
- interviewer: John Gage
- interviewee: Ward Cunningham
- organization: Computer History Museum
- date: 03-May-2006
- url: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7739076742312910146
- length: 01:43:44
Join wiki inventor Ward Cunningham and Sun Microsystems' chief researcher and vice president of the Science Office, John Gage, for a thoughtful and spirited discussion about the socialization of creativity and the past, present and future views of models to support this trend.
Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org
- author: Jay Westerdal
- date: 18-May-2007
- http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/05/ward-cunningham-the-father-of-wiki-becomes-cto-of-aboutusorg/
The creator of the "wiki" is making a huge career change to become the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, he will be leaving the Eclipse Foundation where he was the Director of Committer Community Development. Mr. Cunningham invented the concept and pioneered the technology behind the wiki in 1994 where he originally deployed it on his domain C2.com. A few years later another site started using his wiki technology, you may know the company… Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia made Ward's technology famous and is now known as the most famous wiki person in the world. Mr. Cunningham plans to bring wikis to the next level at AboutUs. He and his team are working on creating a wiki about all companies in the world. It started with Domain names over 9 months ago and the website has doubled in traffic every 3 months and now ranks in the top 3000 websites in the world and in the top 10 wikis in the world. The growth curve is very simaliar to Wikipedia's growth curve in the early days.
Ward Cunningham has a long career of accomplishments, not only did he invent the wiki, he also created Design Patterns and Extreme Programming.
Future of wikis
- This article examines the growth of wikipedia, suggesting that its years of logarithmic growth have passed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growth
- This listing suggests the way wikis can provide a home for many small specialized communities: http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/
