Editing Ward Cunningham (section)

==="Cunningham's Law"<span class="anchor" id="Cunningham's Law"></span>===
{{For|the unrelated mathematical method|Cunningham's rule}}

Cunningham is credited with the idea: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 31, 2010 |title=Jurisimprudence |url=http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/jurisimprudence/ |access-date=2017-01-04 |work=Schott's Vocab Blog}}</ref> This refers to the observation that people are quicker to correct a wrong answer than to answer an unanswered question. According to [[Steven McGeady]], Cunningham advised him of this on a whim in the early 1980s, and McGeady dubbed this Cunningham's Law.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McGeady |first=Steven |date=May 28, 2010 |title=Cunningham's Law |url=http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/jurisimprudence/ |access-date=August 30, 2012 |website=Schott's Vocab |publisher=New York Times |at=Comment No. 119 |quote=n.b. named after Ward Cunningham, a colleague of mine at Tektronix. This was his advice to me in the early 1980s with reference to what was later dubbed USENET, but since generalized to the Web and the Internet as a whole. Ward is now famous as the inventor of the Wiki. Ironically, Wikipedia is now perhaps the most widely-known proof of Cunningham's Law.}}</ref> Although originally referring to interactions on [[Usenet]], the law has been used to describe how other online communities work, such as Wikipedia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Friedman |first=Nancy |date=May 31, 2010 |title=Word of the Week: Cunningham's Law |url=http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2010/05/word-of-the-week-cunninghams-law.html |access-date=August 30, 2012}}</ref> Cunningham relativises his ownership of the law, calling it a "misquote that disproves itself by propagating through the internet" and by saying that he "never suggested asking questions by posting wrong answers".<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclyQt6R5Dc |title=Not Cunningham's Law |date=2015-10-18 |last=Cunningham |first=Ward |access-date=2017-12-20 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/fclyQt6R5Dc |archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>