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The WikiWikiWeb, or simply WikiWiki or Wiki (with a capital W ), is the first ever , came from this original wiki.
In order to make the exchange of ideas between programmers easier, Ward Cunningham installed the WikiWikiWeb on his company Cunningham & Cunningham s Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. Cunningham named the WikiWikiWeb that way because he remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so-called Wiki-Wiki shuttle line that runs between the airport s terminals and is covered by Chance RT-52 buses which are owned by the State of Hawaii and operated by Airport Group International. Wiki-Wiki is a reduplication of wiki , a Hawaiian language word for fast . Cunningham s idea was to make the WikiWikiWeb s pages quickly editable by its users, so he initially thought about calling it QuickWeb , but later changed his mind and dubbed it WikiWikiWeb .
The name Ward s Wiki (or, in CamelCase, WardsWiki ) is also used for the WikiWikiWeb, but has many times negative connotations due to its suggestion that Ward Cunningham maintains strict ownership and control over the entire community, a role which he actively avoids. Other names have been suggested to try to avoid ambiguity with the generic concept of a wiki , and to reflect the growing amount of non-pattern related content. The term C2 Wiki is also used.
Whichever term is used, the WikiWikiWeb should not be confused with the PPR, since the WikiWikiWeb is just a complement to the repository. As explained on the WikiWikiWeb s page: : This wiki and the pages in it are a feature of the Portland Pattern Repository, published by Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., Portland, Oregon [...].
The PPR itself predated the WikiWikiWeb, and includes some static pages (pages that don t belong to the WikiWikiWeb).
The WikiWikiWeb s page contains the following description:
: This wiki s primary focus is . All the information here is subjective.
=The WikiWikiWeb and its designated sister sites=
=The WikiWikiWeb as a precursor to other online communities=
The WikiWikiWeb plays an important historical role on the Worldwide Web and the Internet, because of its influence on other online communities. The WikiWikiWeb s focus on specialized programming makes its content relatively unintelligible to people outside the programming sphere, but, neverless, 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.
Wiki communities outside the WikiWikiWeb implemented their wiki engines to create wikis focused on content other than programming. The versatility of wikis and their multiple applications is what subsequently made them popular in the Internet s communities.
Probably the most famous example of the WikiWikiWeb s legacy is , a nonprofit organization dedicated just to Wikipedia and its sister wikis, is what made it grow slowly but steadily on the Internet.
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