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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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