FedWiki History

## Federated Wiki History Bits

Original Wiki: the Portland Pattern Repository, a set of linked pages for interested people to talk about Design Patterns in Software, in the late 1990s.

Anyone could edit the PPR WikiWikiWeb. Eventually this got to be troublesome as vandalism and spam became an issue.

The **Smallest Federated Wiki** reimagined the conversational web of pages of WikiWikiWeb as every participant having their own wiki, where conversations would happen on Twin Pages in FedWiki in the wiki neighborhood, copying content back and forth.

It's a little like distributed source control! You can choose what to bring in from other people's pages.

For the RC talk **2023-11-02**: 1. Ruby/Sinatra server, jQuery UI. 2. NodeJS server, jQuery UI. 3. Growth of server-side plugins for special views of the wiki content - like graphs of the pages. 4. Frame scripting as a CLIENT-side approach, using **postMessage** to be more flexible.