Cunningham named WikiWikiWeb that way because he remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the WikiWikiShuttle, a shuttle bus line that runs between the airport's terminals.
However, editors (so-called "wiki citizens" or "wikizens"), visitors and readers of the WikiWikiWeb took up the basic idea of making pages user-modifiable and created their own new wiki engines (programs which run wikis) and wikis, outside of the WikiWikiWeb.
A WikiWikiWeb user, programmer Ben Kovitz of San Diego, California, introduced the WikiWikiWeb to Larry Sanger of the Internet company Bomis on the evening of January 2, 2001.
WikiWikiWeb, or simply WikiWiki or Wiki (with a capital 'W'), is the first ever wiki, written in Perl.
WikiWikiWeb should not be confused with the PPR, since WikiWikiWeb is intended only as a complement to the repository.
WikiWikiWeb's focus on specialized programming makes its content relatively unintelligible to people outside the programming sphere, but, nevertheless, editors (so-called "wiki citizens" or "wikizens") and visitors and readers of the WikiWikiWeb took the idea of making pages user-modifiable outside the WikiWikiWeb and created their own new wiki engines (programs which run wikis) and wikis.
WikiWikiWeb is the original and wildly successful Wiki was created by WardCunningham in 1995:
That's what's saddest to me - it used to be pretty cool to have a place where you could exchange views and collaborate on content with the high-powered folk on the WikiWikiWeb, but I think all those guys must be spending their time in different circles now.
Perhaps that was not enough to prevent spamming and botwars, and Ward took the WikiWikiWeb offline until he had a better solution.
WikiWikiWeb is an "open-editing" system where the emphasis is on the authoring and collaboration of documents rather than the simple browsing or viewing of them.
The basic concept of a WikiWikiWeb (or "wiki") is that (almost) anyone can edit any page.
While at first this sounds like a recipe for complete anarchy, the truth is that sites using this system have developed surprisingly complex and rich communities for online collaboration and communication.
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WikiWikiWeb has four meanings, and is sometimes shortened to WikiWiki, or WikiWeb?
UseModWiki is the model of WikiWikiWeb that our Wiki here runs on.
MeatBall is about online communities in general (hence of interest to us over here at CreationMatters), although the bulk of the content is Wiki-related so far (Oct 2000).
These encyclopedias are know as "wikis" and were named as such by Ward Cunningham, creator of WikiWikiWeb, during a trip to Hawaii.
According to Cunningham, he was traveling on the Change RT-52 shuttle bus in the Honolulu International Airport, and found the line was also known as "WikiWiki", Hawaiian for "fast".
Wikis are on a one-way street to fame, and no one seems to mind.
His first WikiWikiWeb [http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki], rendered into HTML through a Perl script written in 1994-95, still runs today at its original home on the Portland Pattern Repository site.
In Ward's WikiWikiWeb, a wiki page is created by running words together with initial capitals for each word to create a WikiWord.
In the WikiWikiWeb, the WikiWord page name is the last part of the URL; in the Swiki model, pages are numbered, which means you easily rename a page while you're editing it, and once saved, the change is reflected throughout the database.
You can create direct links to The granddaddy of all Wikis
WikiWikiWeb pages from this wiki by adding "@WikiWikiWeb" after the page name.
For example "WikiHistory@WikiWikiWeb" appears as WikiHistory, and when you click it you get taken to the Wiki History page on the The granddaddy of all Wikis
