Editing MeatballWiki (section)

== Founding ==
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a [[forum administrator]] from [[Ontario]], Canada, on [[Clifford Adams]]'s Internet domain usemod.com.<ref name="WikiIndex">{{cite web |url=http://www.wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki |title=MeatballWiki |access-date=2007-12-28 |date=4 October 2007 |work=WikiIndex}}</ref> MeatballWiki was created as a place for discussion about [[Ward Cunningham]]'s [[WikiWikiWeb]] and its operation, which were beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb. As Sunir Shah stated in the WikiWikiWeb page referring to MeatballWiki: "Community discussions about how to run the community itself should be left here. Abstract discussions, or objective analyses of community are encouraged on MeatballWiki."<ref name="c2" /> Shah created this site "as a friendly [[fork (software development)|fork]] of WikiWikiWeb." About the Meatball project, the website says: "The web, and media like it, looks like a big bowl of meatball spaghetti. You've got content – the meatballs – linked together with the spaghetti."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/action=browse&id=MeatballProject&oldid=MeatBall|title=Meatball Wiki: MeatballProject|work=meatballwiki.org}}</ref>

According to Igor Nikolic and Chris Davis, MeatballWiki was spun off of the [[Portland Pattern Repository]], the first wiki.<ref name=Nikolic>{{cite book
	| last = Nikolic
	| first = Igor
    | last2 = Davis
    | first2 = Chris
    | editor-last1 = Egyedi
    | editor-first1 =  Tineke M. 
    | editor-last2 = Mehos
    | editor-first2 = Donna C.
	| date = 30 Apr 2012
	| title = Inverse Infrastructures: Disrupting Networks from Below 
    | chapter = Self-Organization in Wikis
	| publisher = [[Edward Elgar Publishing]]
	| page = 114
	| isbn = 9781849803014  
}}</ref>