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| title = Wiki| title = Wiki
| image = /static/media/wiki-edit.svg+| image = https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ward%20Cunningham%20-%20Commons-1.jpg?width=320
| caption = Editing a page directly in the browser| caption = Editing a page directly in the browser
| label1 = First example| label1 = First example
== Origin ==== Origin ==
Ward Cunningham built the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, and opened it on 25 March 1995 as a place for programmers to record design patterns. He named it after the ''Wiki Wiki'' shuttle buses at Honolulu airport; ''wiki wiki'' is Hawaiian for "quick". Speed was the point: Cunningham wanted the gap between noticing that a page was wrong and fixing it to be as close to zero as possible.<ref>Leuf, Bo and Cunningham, Ward. ''The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web''. Addison-Wesley, 2001.</ref>+[[Ward Cunningham]] built the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, and opened it on 25 March 1995 as a place for programmers to record design patterns. He named it after the ''Wiki Wiki'' shuttle buses at Honolulu airport; ''wiki wiki'' is Hawaiian for "quick". Speed was the point: Cunningham wanted the gap between noticing that a page was wrong and fixing it to be as close to zero as possible.<ref>Leuf, Bo and Cunningham, Ward. ''The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web''. Addison-Wesley, 2001.</ref>
== How a wiki works ==== How a wiki works ==
; Links to pages that do not exist : Writing a link to a missing page creates a request for it. Following the link opens an empty editor. Articles grow outward from red links.; Links to pages that do not exist : Writing a link to a missing page creates a request for it. Following the link opens an empty editor. Articles grow outward from red links.
The revision history is what makes the rest safe. If any change can be reversed in one click, the cost of a bad edit is low and the cost of an unnecessary restriction is high &mdash; so the default can be openness.+Because any change can be reversed from the history, a bad edit costs little to correct. Wikis rely on this to keep editing open by default.
== Structure ==== Structure ==