Remarks Delivered at Wikimedia NYC's Wikiday 2024

_The WikiWikiWeb is the first everWiki, or user-editable website. It was launched on 25 March 1995 by its inventor, programmer Ward Cunningham, to accompany the Portland Pattern Repository website discussing software Design Patterns. The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase". The site is frequently referred to by its users as simply "Wiki", and a convention established among users of the early network of wiki sites that followed was that using the word with a capitalized W referred exclusively to the original site._ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb _This began on March 25, 1995. A little later (May 1, 1995), an InvitationToThePatternsList caused an increase in participation. Growth has continued since then, to the point where the average number of new pages ranges between 5 and 12 per day. WardsWikiTenthAnniversary occurred on March 25, 2005. At that time, we had about 30690 pages._ WikiWikiWeb:WikiHistory aka WardsWiki, "the c2.com wiki"