CHAPTER1 WIIKI HISTORY merican computer programmer Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995 Sunningham's wiki was a new collaborative technology for organizing information on websites Cunningham named his new software WikiWikiWeb based on a Hawaiian term meaning quick Cunningham used his wiki to share knowledge with other programmers WIKI INSPIRATION Wikis were inspired in part by a program made by the computer company Apple that was called HyperCard It allowed users to create virtual card stacks of information with a host of connections or links among the various cards HyperCard's stacks created a program wherein the users created both texts and links THE SPREAD OF WIKIS When Cunningham created Wiki Wiki Web he developed a computer program to build the pages He wanted his website to be accessible to all but only a few computer experts and academics tried it out at first A few years later other people developed their own wiki software for everyone to use As wikis became more
WIKI HISTORY popular more sites appeared on the Internet In fact the number of new wiki sites doubled in size every year between 1995 and 2000 WIKI TIMELINE As more wiki sites were launched they offered new improved services and features Some of the changes introduced between 1995 and 2000 include the following 1995People Index a list of users who have contributed to the wiki 1996Edit Copy now called Page History a time stamped list of when contributors made changes to the wiki 1996 Thread Mode a forum for users to discuss changes to the wiki 1999 Change Summary a list that summarizes changes made to the wiki 2000User Name identifies contributors by a user name rather than a computer IP address Wikis take their name from the first wiki website called WikiWikiWeb a play on the World Wide Web and the Hawaiian word wiki which means
dIn Skype WHAT IS A WIKI AND HOW DO USE IT WIKIPEDIA Ward Cunningham wanted wiki software to be simple enough for anyone to use but most of the early wikis were aimed at computer programmers In 2001 however American computer expert Jimmy Wales launched a new wiki Wikipedia NUPEDIA Before Wikipedia Wales and a colleague Larry Sanger had created Nupedia This website was similar to a wiki but the pages were written and checked by experts The information on Nupedia was accurate and detailed but it took a long time to write GROWTH OF WIKIPEDIA By January 2001 fewer than two dozen articles were finished and Sanger advocated supplementing Nupedia with an open source encyclopedia based on wiki software So he and Wales launched Wikipedia In its first year Wikipedia expanded to some 20 000 articles in 18 languages By 2006 the English language version of Wikipedia had more than one million articles and by the time of its 10th anniversary in 2011 it had surpassed 3 5 million However while the encyclopedia continued to expand at a rate of millions of words per month the number of new articles created each year gradually decreased In 2013 it had more than 27 million pages in more than 284 languages Nonetheless contributors need no special qualifications and may add any content they desire as long as it meets editing
LinkedIn WIKI HISTORY Blogger WIKI BIO Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was born in 1966 in Huntsville Alabama He studied finance at Auburn University and started his career as a trader in 1994 Wales soon became interested in the Internet particularly online role playing games and decided to leave finance to become an Internet entrepreneur After working on a few Internet projects with Larry Sanger Wales launched Wikipedia I Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes that wikis are transforming the way people find out
