Wikipedia actually/also inherited a lot of original "policy" from Ward Cunninghams WikiWikiWeb [1] . So right at the start, there's some overlap between wikis,

Wikipedia actually/also inherited a lot of original "policy" from Ward Cunninghams WikiWikiWeb [1] . So right at the start, there's some overlap between wikis, design patterns, and agile development (from back when those terms actually meant something). A big lost opportunity in the history of wikipedia was to name the body of best practices the "Policy"/"Guideline"/"Essay" system, as opposed to "Community Patterns". In reality they do function closer to patterns anyway, which should be unsurprising seeing the original source(s). There's also the whole way the software works. So that's twice that Wikipedia owes Ward Cunningham. Well, that and the most important exchange of all of course: "My question, to this esteemed Wiki community, is this: Do you think that a Wiki could successfully generate a useful encyclopedia? -- JimboWales [a] Yes, but in the end it wouldn't be an encyclopedia. It would be a wiki. -- WardCunningham [b]" [2] [1] http://wiki.c2.com/ http://wiki.c2.com/ [2] https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiPedia https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiPedia [a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales [b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham