Federated Wiki

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.

Federated Wiki

Official Federated Wiki website running on the namesake application
Original author(s)	Ward Cunningham
Developer(s)	Ward Cunningham and GitHub contributors
Initial release	December 16, 2013 (2013-12-16)
Stable release	0.33.0 / November 23, 2023 (2023-11-23)
Repository	github.com/fedwiki/wiki
Written in	CoffeeScript
Type	Wiki software
License	MIT License
Website	fed.wiki.org

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]

See also

• List of wiki software
• WikiWikiWeb – using Federated Wiki since 2015