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• Wikis 15 years old!

About WikiBirthday

is a space for celebrating the founding of wikis. On March 25th 1995, Ward Cunningham launched the very first wiki community as an experiment within the context of the Portland Pattern Repository (source) via Basturea.com. This makes that day the original wiki birthday, but we also like to celebrate the founding anniversary's of all kinds of different wikis. Wiki birthdays are a moment to stop and remember the history of the technology and way of working that is wiki, and how it all got started.

Other Wiki Birthdays

• 15 January 2001 - Wikipedia - (source via Wired.com (search)
• 2001-12-06 - GayHalifax -- see AboutThisSystem for details
• March 2002 - The Open Guide to London (and later OpenGuides)
• March 2003 - Emacs Wiki
• July 2003 - Wikitravel
• Late 2004 - Wikia
• 15 January 2005 - wikiHow and their communities b-days
• 18 March 2005 Wikispaces 4 5
• 16 January 2006 - WikiIndex
• 17 April 2006 - Intellipedia
• 16 June 2006 - AboutUs.org
• December 2006 WikiLeaks

Past Celebrations

• WikiBirthday 15
• WikiBirthday 14
• WikiBirthday 13

Organize via

• WikiWednesdays
• RoCoCo
• RecentChangesCamp
• WikiSym
• Wikimania

What would we like to have:

• Birthday wish to the wiki community that started this all out, honor them. [1]
• Site, maybe this one, maybe not
• Ability to share stories and personal wiki birthday
• look nice and be simple like this?
• should really communicate the notion that wikis were made by their participants
• ability to have multiple people build the site?
• some way to put a brick in, like pioneer square

Related Domains

Who to contact

• Wikipedia:BirthdayCommittee
• Wikitravel
• wikiHow

External Links

• Alexa: WikiBirthday.org
• WHOIS for WikiBirthday.org

G BiLinks

• Meatball:WikiBirthday
• CommunityWiki:WikiBirthday
• Wiki:WikiBirthday