March 25th, 2005 will be the 10th anniversary of Ward Cunningham's wiki.
Hopefully he can get his new wiki administration system in place by then.
Tomorrow is the day!
Tomorrow is here. And tomorrow never dies.
Strange, looks like someone vandalized Wiki History undetected. All of the 1995 dates were changed to 1994. Anyone have an offline copy to restore from? It has already dropped out of Page History. -- Michael Sparks
I have a backup from a year ago, but it's appearance suggests Wiki History has not been changed in the way you describe. Where would you like it to be put, Michael?
Well, this is confusing.
en.wikipedia.org 
indicates 3/25/1995.
en.wikipedia.org also indicates 3/25/1995.
Wiki History in its current form indicates 3/25/1994.
web.archive.org shows that previously, Wiki History said 3/25/1995.
c2.com (probably the most authoritative source) shows that it started around 3/16/2005.
Looks like the consensus is on 1995, but the day of the month is unclear. The email dump in c2.com shows that Ward was just getting c2.com itself up and running in 11/94, so any document that claims wiki started before that is clearly wrong.
Also, if wiki started on 3/25/1994, then we wouldn't be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year - it would be the 11th anniversary.
I have an early backup (from October 2001) which starts "This is the first ever wiki site, founded in 1994", but "1994" was changed to "1995" by May 2002.
If you are right, someone must have celebrated 10th year last year, press or here
From mail-history.txt, there is an email dated "March 16, 1995 11:06AM". In it, Ward writes:
"Steve -- I've put up a new database on my web server and I'd like you to take a look. It's a web of people, projects and patterns accessed through a cgi-bin script. It has a forms based authoring capability that doesn't require familiarity with html. I'd be very pleased if you would get on and at least enter your name in Recent Visitors. I'm asking you because I think you might also add some interesting content. I'm going to advertise this a little more widely in a week or so. The URL is c2.com . Thanks and best regards. -- Ward"
This is just a text file on the web server, not a wiki page, so it should be immune to vandalism. The date here is trustworthy. This email was sent 03/16/1995, and Ward says that he will be advertising it further in "a week or so". I'm guessing that week or so was about 9 days, which leads to the 03/25/1995 date. Sounds pretty conclusive to me... anyone disagree?
The 03/25/1995 date seems to come from Visitors In Ninety Five.
For what it's worth, archive.org first spidered c2.com in Nov 1996; if you want to check old (but not oldest) copies of certain pages, you might find something interesting. -- Doug Merritt
That's true, but the Nov 1996 archives seem to be inaccessible.
I know, I tried first; but archive.org servers go up and down all the time, that's not necessarily a permanent error. There are thousands of servers, and it's unpredictable whether a given page will be on a given server. They are frequently upgraded, they frequently crash...it's an interesting setup.
Anyway, although the oldest pages that archive.org might be most helpful, it's still possible that some certain e.g. 1998 version of some page might also be useful as a comparison. And given the above, there's no particular reason to think that it, too, would simultaneously be off line. Might or might not be. -- Doug Merritt
Certainly, the January 5, 1998 version of Past Visitors also contains the March 25, 1995 date.
I've fixed the page - if everyone would review the change, that would be good. -- Michael Sparks
Happy tenth anniversary, everyone.
On to the next ten.
Which of the Visitors In Ninety Five are still active? Looks like Dave Smith, Ron Jeffries?, and Tom Stambaugh. You guys should... uhh... give a speech or something.
Still checking in every so often. --David Hooker
Let's celebrate by starting a giant threadmode Mother of all Flame/troll-wars. Seriously, congratulations and well done!
And now we're coming up on the twentieth anniversary in a few months. I just happened to notice, as I was directing a programmer to it for their first time. Seems like some celebration is warranted :)
See original on c2.com