The fundamental difference between the original wiki and the new fedwiki is that nature of authorship. In the original wiki, there are common pages created where anyone who is logged in could write on.
If you wrote a page, someone else could come along and change it, hopefully for the better. This ability for co-creation proved to be immensely helpful for creating encyclopedias or knowledge-bases in communities or for companies. But it also then required that these pages to be consistently monitored so that they are not maliciously damaged or had inaccurate information added.
But what if each each person, Ward wondered, had their own wikis where they could freely write their own thoughts and insights knowing that no one else could write on their pages? But, at the same time, they could be viewed and copied by others, sparking new thinking?
That is what Ward set out to do. Now, more than ten years later a group of dedicated developers and users are exploring new horizons of collective creative thinking.
You are here as someone who has been invited to join us. Let's start to learn how to wiki in this new way.
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