“Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?”

—  Ward Cunningham

On the lack of sense in using the Wiki format for overly constrained or simply locked pages, in The Wiki Way: Quick collaboration on the Web (2001), co-authored with Bo Leuf

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American computer programmer who developed the first wiki 1949

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