The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web is a 2001 book about wiki

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

s by Bo Leuf

Bo Leuf

Bo Arne Leuf was the author of the book The Wiki Way , written in collaboration with WikiWiki inventor Ward Cunningham. His book Peer To Peer discusses different P2P solutions both from a technical and legal point of view.Bo Leuf lived in Gothenburg, Sweden...

 and Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham

Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on...

. It was the first major book published about using wikis. Cunningham is the inventor of wikis, having created WikiWikiWeb

WikiWikiWeb

WikiWikiWeb is a term that has been used to refer to four things: the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ; the Perl-based application that was used to run it, also developed by Cunningham, which was the first...

, the first wiki website software. The book is about how to install/customize/manage wiki systems, followed by a perspective on the nature of wiki-style online communication.

External links

• Book homepage