Federated Wiki

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.

Federated Wiki
Original author(s)Ward Cunningham
Developer(s)Ward Cunningham and GitHub contributors
Initial releaseDecember 16, 2013 (2013-12-16)
Stable release
0.28.0 / September 24, 2022 (2022-09-24)
Repository
Written inCoffeeScript
TypeWiki software
LicenseMIT License
Websitefed.wiki.org

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

References
  1. "Wiki Inventor Sticks a Fork in His Baby". wired.com. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  2. "Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki Paves Road To Our Curated Future". semanticweb.com. 9 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  3. "A modern wiki for a modern internet: the Smallest Federated Wiki on The GovLab's Demos for Democracy". thegovlab.org. 15 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-01-17. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  4. "Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration". hapgood.us. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-07.


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