Federated Wiki (formerly Smallest Federated Wiki) is a collaborative knowledge application developed by Ward Cunningham which adds forking features found in

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tools to

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s. The project was launched at

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2011. The software allows its users to fork wiki pages, maintaining their own copies. Federation supports what Cunningham has described as "a chorus of voices" where users share content but maintain their individual perspectives. This approach contrasts with the tendency of

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wikis such as

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to function as consensus engines.

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Federated Wiki – A conversation with Jeff Rimland and Ward Cunningham
nbsp;– a video podcast published by the Center for Online Innovation in Learning
Missing from the Beginning: The Federation of Wiki
– presentation by Ward Cunningham at the University of Advanced Technology 2011 software Computing platforms Wiki software Software using the GPL license {{cms-software-stub

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