| Federated Wiki | |
|---|---|
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 Official Federated Wiki website running on the namesake application | |
| Original author | Ward Cunningham |
| Developers | Ward Cunningham and GitHub contributors |
| Release | December 16, 2013 (2013-12-16) |
| Stable release | 0.38.5
/ October 19, 2025 (2025-10-19) |
| Written in | CoffeeScript |
| Type | Wiki software |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | fed |
| Repository | |
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.
Federation supports what Cunningham has described as "a chorus of voices" where users share content but maintain their individual perspectives.3 This multi-point of view approach contrasts with wikis such as Wikipedia that have a single article for each topic managed by consensus decision-making.4
References
References
- Klint, Finley (2012-07-04). "Wiki Inventor Sticks a Fork in His Baby". Wired. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- Zaino, Jennifer (2012-03-09). "Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki Paves Road To Our Curated Future". semanticweb.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- Kosslyn, Neil (2014-08-15). "A modern wiki for a modern internet: the Smallest Federated Wiki on The GovLab's Demos for Democracy". thegovlab.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-17. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- Caulfield, Mike (2014-11-06). "Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration". hapgood.us. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
External links
External links
Federation Sites
- Official website
- Ward's Wiki Ward's Dojo Practice Yearbooks
- relocalizecreativity.net ReLocalize Creativity is a network of people who are connecting their neighborhoods.
- viki.wiki Users launch sites on dedicated domains to offer considerable influence over how agents interpret this content. Contemporary art and archival focus.
Federation Resources
- Text and Video Chats Federated wiki developer calls
- FedWiki Matrix chat
- FedWiki River A river of updates from across the Federated Wiki network.
Podcasts and demos
- Federated Wiki – A conversation with Jeff Rimland and Ward Cunningham – a video podcast published by the Center for Online Innovation in Learning
- Missing from the Beginning: The Federation of Wiki Archived 2015-02-27 at the Wayback Machine – presentation by Ward Cunningham at the University of Advanced Technology
- "New Discoveries Mining Federated Wiki’s Recent Changes", MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2024