Wikimania05/Presentation-WC1
This page is part of the Proceedings of Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.
Wikis then and now
edit- Author(s): Ward Cunningham
- License: Creative Commons Attribution
- Language: English
- Slides: http://c2.com/doc/wikimania/
- Video: 1:37:27
- Note: Keynote
About the author(s): Ward Cunningham is a computer programmer and is best known as the inventor of WikiWikiWeb. He founded the first wiki site, at the Portland Pattern Repository, on March 25, 1995. Cunningham states that the wiki concept came to him in the late 1980s, and he implemented it first in a HyperCard stack. He is the co-author (with Bo Leuf) of the book The Wiki Way (2001).
Abstract: A reflection on the development of wikis over the past decade.