The Wiki Document
The Wiki Document
WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki, or user-editable website. The site was launched on 25
March 1995 by programmer Ward Cunningham to accompany the Portland Pattern
Repository website discussing software design patterns.
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the
website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase".
Hyperlinks between pages on WikiWikiWeb are created by joining capitalized words
together, a technique referred to as camel case. This convention of wiki markup
formatting is still followed by some more recent wiki software, whereas others, such as
the MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia, allow links without camel case.