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Ward Cunningham on the Appeal of OOP and Dynamic Languages, Federated Wiki by Ward Cunningham Posted on Apr 04, 2013 Ward Cunningham talks about the continuing appeal of OOP and dynamic languages, asynchronous programming, and much more. Also: Ward explains the ideas behind his latest project Federated Wiki.

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Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site by Brion Vibber Posted on Dec 23, 2009 Brion Vibber discusses the challenges of working with user communities, social bottlenecks, the Wikipedia article deletion process, scalability of software vs communities, new approaches to scaling communities, ongoing challenges with MediaWiki community, using git to scale the code commit process, automated Wikipedia edit filtering, flagged protection pages, and remaining challenges to face.

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Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea by Paul Downey Posted on Dec 12, 2009 Paul Downey discusses the risks of premature standardisation, unnatural constraints, partial implementations and open extensions, how to avoid cloud computing lock-in, formal activities versus lightweight open processes as exemplified by open source, Microformats, OpenID, OAuth and other Web conventions being ratified through open, lightweight, continuous agreement.