Federated Wiki (formerly Smallest Federated Wiki) is a collaborative knowledge application developed by Ward Cunningham which adds forking features found in source control systems and other software development tools to wikis.[1] The project was launched at IndieWebCamp 2011.[2] The software allows its users to fork wiki pages, maintaining their own copies.
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 Official Federated Wiki website running on the namesake application | |
| Original author(s) | Ward Cunningham |
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| Developer(s) | Ward Cunningham and GitHub contributors |
| Initial release | December 16, 2013 |
| Stable release | 0.33.0
/ November 23, 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | CoffeeScript |
| Type | Wiki software |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | fed |
Federation supports what Cunningham has described as "a chorus of voices" where users share content but maintain their individual perspectives.[3] This approach contrasts with the tendency of centralized wikis such as Wikipedia to function as consensus engines.[4]
See also
edit- List of wiki software
- WikiWikiWeb – using Federated Wiki since 2015
References
edit- ^ Klint, Finley (2012-07-04). "Wiki Inventor Sticks a Fork in His Baby". Wired. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- ^ Zaino, Jennifer (2012-03-09). "Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki Paves Road To Our Curated Future". semanticweb.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- ^ Kosslyn, Neil (2014-08-15). "A modern wiki for a modern internet: the Smallest Federated Wiki on The GovLab's Demos for Democracy". thegovlab.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-17. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- ^ Caulfield, Mike (2014-11-06). "Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration". hapgood.us. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
External links
edit- Official website
- Federated Wiki – A conversation with Jeff Rimland and Ward Cunningham – a video podcast published by the Center for Online Innovation in Learning
- Missing from the Beginning: The Federation of Wiki Archived 2015-02-27 at the Wayback Machine – presentation by Ward Cunningham at the University of Advanced Technology