News about Abstract Wikipedia

Some material about Abstract Wikipedia from the last few days:

• Abstract Wikipedia is a MacArthur 100&Change finalist
• Knowledge in the Age of AI, talk at King's College London by me, on the occasion of becoming a Visiting Professor
• Episode of Between the Brackets by Yaron Koren with me

30 years of wikis

Today is the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first wiki by Ward Cunningham. A page that anyone could edit. Right from the browser. It was generally seen as a bad idea. What if people did bad things?

Originally with the goal to support the software development community in creating a repository of software design patterns, wikis were later used for many other goals (even an encyclopedia!), and became part of the recipe, together with blogs, fora and early social media, that was considered the Web 2.0.

Thank you, Ward, and congratulations on the first 30 years.

A wiki birthday card is being collected on Wikiindex.