Ward Cunningham

One editor so enjoyed fork's gruesome overtones that he (she?) titled an interview, "Wiki Inventor Sticks a Fork in His Baby". The reporter was concerned that I would be upset....

I think the paragraph text is uft-8 safe. If not, its a bug. Our slug logic looks for url-safe, file-name-safe alphabetic characters. We could broaden this with care. This issue...

The web page footer (status bar) is a good place for information about the origin server and status specific to the client-side javascript loaded from the origin. Currently this consists...

This advice comes at a very good time. My own summary of [server classes](http://ward.fed.wiki.org/diversity-in-service.html) ends with the realization: - Servers shouldn't need to participate in browser history by parsing and...

Good point. We were a little too attached to regex routing since that is what we had been doing in Sinatra. We do want the added validation provided by regex...

Yes, we went down the custom router route. It became more complicated than the rest of the server. I had to stop and ask, what is it about wiki that...

The claim mechanism has served us well for four months. Before claims I was afraid to admit that I was hosting any federated sites for fear that they would be...

If you edit someone else's page, it becomes yours. This logic is coded into the javascript. The javascript must then find some place to store your changes. This happens in...

A few days later ... Wikipedia community and Internet Archive partner to fix one million broken links on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/26/internet-archive-broken-links/

I'm sorry you've lost a page. Welcome Visitors does seem especially vulnerable to this mistake. Replacing the journal makes it especially harsh. I have thought that the proper action would...