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| | title = Wiki | | title = Wiki | ||
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| | caption = Editing a page directly in the browser | | caption = Editing a page directly in the browser | ||
| | label1 = First example | | label1 = First example | ||
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| == 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> | |
| == How a wiki works == | == How a wiki works == | ||
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| ; 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. | ||
| − | + | 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 == | ||
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