# Ward Cunningham

> He wrote the first wiki in 1994 and set it live the next spring - a small tool for tracking software patterns that became the architecture under Wikipedia and a thousand other collaborative sites. He also co-signed the Agile Manifesto and helped shape extreme programming.

*American computer programmer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/ward-cunningham

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1949-05-26
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Ward Cunningham was born May 26, 1949. He began coding the WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on c2.com, his consulting firm's site, on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. The software let anyone edit any page - a radical premise that would define online collaboration. He co-authored The Wiki Way with Bo Leuf, explaining the philosophy in print. In 2001 he co-signed the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, cementing his role in remaking how teams build software. He also invented the Framework for Integrated Test and helped create the idea of software design patterns. He has spoken at WikiSym, the Wikimedia Developer Summit, and other conferences on the tools he set in motion.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 69.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.0 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.4 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 75.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 85.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #23
- **Total followers across platforms:** 1,912

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/WardCunningham (@WardCunningham)
- **WEBSITE**: https://c2.com
- **GITHUB**: https://github.com/WardCunningham (@WardCunningham, 1,912 followers)

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