Talk:Christopher Alexander

message: Both Chris and Sara taught me while I was at Cal. Sara was not Christerpher's student, they were colleagues. Chris started teaching in 1963, Sara started teaching there in 1960. APL was not published until 1977.  Pearl2525 (talk) 18:54, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Sara Ishikawa

message: Hi.  I just listened to an hour-long broadcast of an interview with Christopher Alexander on CBC Radio the other evening.  It was taped at C.A.'s resiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain—Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.81.90.114 (talk) 15:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current residence in Sussex - why delete this info? 

message: The article says: "The Wiki is just one of the results of Alexander's influence on computing, and it is appropriate that we use it to collect notes on the subject." To my understanding, WikiWikiWebs were developed completedly unaware of Alexander and his theories. I suggest to completely remove this sentence. Is anyone able to specify, what the link of Alexander and Wikis is?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.61.138.99 (talk) 12:04, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: From Wiki: Wiki software originated in the design pattern community as a way of writing and discussing pattern languages. The WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki, established by Ward Cunningham... See also Christoper Alexander's page on WikiWikiWeb itself: ChristopherAlexander zenned 19:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say the WikiWikiWeb itself and work on design patterns coevolved, but the ideas behind Ward's wiki definitely predated the widespread awareness of Alexander's work. Ward himself traces the idea to the development of ZOG in 1972, five years before A Pattern Language appeared (). So I would say that, yes, the claim above is a little anachronistic. There were a lot of people taking various approached to hypertext in the 60s and 70s. But the actual WikiWikiWeb itself definitely developed in an Alexander-steeped context. So it's a judgment call. That last section of the article seems a little iffy, though, I agree. rodii 17:22, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influence on wiki 

message: Are there any good references to explain CA's association with CES and the new CES in Europe?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.239.1.89 (talk) 22:12, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Center for Environmental Structure 

message: I just noticed that someone from IP address 216.146.243.76 got in and damaged Christopher Alexander's biography. What is the mechanism for banning specific IP addresses? I reverted the page to the previous saved version. Nikos.salingaros 23:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hacking

message: His classic article "A City Is Not A Tree" should probably be added to the Writings and to the Published Works sections even though it is not a book.
Christopher Alexander, A city is not tree, Architectural Forum 122 April (1965): No. 1, pages 58-61 and No. 2, pages 58-62. Tono-bungay (talk) 05:59, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A City Is Not A Tree 

message: Unlikely to be notable on its own but might be useful to mention in founder's article (WP:ATD-M) SoWhy 07:10, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Building Beauty]] 

message: I am going to remove this tag, I see nothing in the discussion that challenges the neutrality of the article. I see some minor quibbles which have been resolved.  By the way, for the origin of Wiki, see the paper by wiki inventor Ward Cunningham written with myself, "Wiki as Pattern Language," from a presentation Ward gave. Excerpt: "While the general concept of a wiki is thus extremely well known, somewhat less well known is the history of wiki development. Wikis were an outgrowth of the development of what is known as “pattern languages” in software, or as they are sometimes referred to, “design patterns.” As we describe below, they were in fact developed as tools to facilitate efficient sharing and modifying of patterns. In part for this reason, the structure of wikis itself bears a relationship to the structure of patterns and pattern languages – a relationship that, as we will also discuss, offers intriguing new opportunities." Cunningham, W. and Mehaffy, M.W. (2013). “Wiki as Pattern Language.” In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP'13), Monticello, Illinois, USA (October 2013). 15 pages. Michaelwestmehaffy (talk) 21:08, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality is disputed?